{"id":20649,"date":"2025-04-24T11:04:33","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T11:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/doge-to-dismantle-millennium-challenge-corporation\/"},"modified":"2025-04-24T11:04:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T11:04:33","slug":"doge-to-dismantle-millennium-challenge-corporation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/doge-to-dismantle-millennium-challenge-corporation\/","title":{"rendered":"DOGE to Dismantle Millennium Challenge Corporation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Trump administration has begun dismantling a small independent agency that aids the economic development of poor but stable nations, according to five people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Employees for the agency, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, were told in an email that they would be offered early retirement or deferred resignation after visits last week from Elon Musk\u2019s government cost-cutting team, according to a copy reviewed by The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe understand from the DOGE team there will soon be a significant reduction in the number of MCC\u2019s programs and relatedly the agency\u2019s staff,\u201d read an email sent to staff on Tuesday by the acting chief executive. Staff members were given until Tuesday to decide whether to accept an offer to step down or have their employment terminated as soon as May 5, according to the email.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The White House declined to comment Wednesday on the planned cuts at the agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Musk\u2019s team, known as the Department of Government Efficiency, has in recent weeks moved to gut several federal agencies and entities that work on foreign aid and development projects. That includes the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/06\/us\/politics\/doge-african-aid-agency.html\" title=\"\">U.S. African Development Foundation<\/a> and the U.S. Agency for International Development, which would <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/28\/us\/politics\/usaid-trump-doge-cuts.html\" title=\"\">shrink to just the legally required 15 positions<\/a> after employing about 10,000 people before the start of the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Millennium Challenge Corporation is much smaller \u2014 roughly 300 employees, mostly in Washington, with about 20 people in offices overseas. But like U.S.A.I.D., it is slated to be reduced to the minimum <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/uscode.house.gov\/view.xhtml?path=\/prelim@title22\/chapter84&amp;edition=prelim\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">required by law<\/a>, according to the people familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to speak freely about internal conversations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The agency, established by Congress in 2004, was conceived by President George W. Bush as a way to aid poor nations while holding them accountable for <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov\/infocus\/developingnations\/millennium.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">using U.S. funds responsibly<\/a>. The agency\u2019s annual budget is a relatively modest $1 billion. It provides grants directly to foreign governments for development projects, including ones aimed at limiting the influence of China in Asia and Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The agency had 20 projects in various stages of planning or progress before the Trump administration instituted a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/article\/us-foreign-aid-freeze-explained.html\" title=\"\">90-day funding freeze on foreign aid<\/a> earlier this year. It was granted waivers by the State Department to continue five large-scale infrastructure projects that were in the middle of construction, but the agency was still waiting for the results of a review by the State Department and the Office of Management and Budget as of this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">One of the five projects, to build <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/19\/world\/asia\/nepal-trump-foreign-aid.html\" title=\"\">more than 200 miles of roads and transmission lines<\/a> in Nepal, had angered Chinese officials and spurred five years of intense debate in Nepal before the nation\u2019s government accepted the offer. The Trump administration\u2019s decision to freeze funding caused <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/19\/world\/asia\/nepal-trump-foreign-aid.html\" title=\"\">deep consternation among Nepali leaders who had backed the deal<\/a> despite criticism from opponents who called them U.S. puppets and traitors. The future of the project is unclear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Organizations and individuals focused on global development criticized any effort to close the agency, noting that it had a bipartisan reputation and a track record of delivering in poor countries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Millennium Challenge Corporation is \u201cthe only aid agency in the world that targets poor countries with good policies, helps countries choose the most growth-promoting investments through rigorous analysis, and funds the investments in ways that do not build unsustainable debt,\u201d <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cgdev.org\/expert\/nancy-lee\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Nancy Lee<\/a>, a former deputy chief executive of the agency, said in a statement. \u201cWhy destroy a model that 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