The announcement comes as US President Donald Trump confirms that he is planning to eliminate the help agency.
The administration of the President of the United States, Donald Trump, has ordered that almost all the directly hired employees of the American International Development Agency (USAID) are on leave in the context of the Republican will to radically shrink the government.
USAID said on Tuesday that all direct rental staff would be on Friday leaves, outside the “designated staff responsible for critical mission functions, basic leadership and specially designated programs”.
USAID staff published abroad will be recalled from its publications within 30 days of the agency said in a statement on its website.
The aid agency said it would consider exceptions and extensions on a case -by -case basis based on “personal or family difficulties, mobility or security problems, or other reasons”.
“For example, the agency will examine the exceptions according to the schedule of the school quarter of dependents, personal or family medical needs, pregnancy and other reasons. Additional directives on how to request an exception will be to come, ”said the press release.
“Thank you for your service.”
USAID employs more than 10,000 people, around two thirds are parked abroad, according to the Congressional Research Service.
The USAID’s announcement comes when the Trump administration plans to abolish the agency and subsume its functions from the US State Department.
Questioned Tuesday by a journalist if he was preparing to “relax” the agency, Trump said: “I think yes”.
On Monday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed that he was an actual administrator of the USAID.
The USAID, which disbursed more than half of the foreign aid budget of $ 72 billion in Washington in 2023, has become a main target of the dynamism of the costs led by the technological billionaire Elon Musk and its so-called Ministry of government efficiency.
Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, described the USAID as “criminal organization”, without justification, and said that the agency was a “nest of radical Marxists on the left who hate America”.
Critics accused Trump and Musk of having acted beyond their authority, arguing that the dismantling of the USAID by executive action is unconstitutional because the status of the agency was established by an act of congress.
