{"id":3969,"date":"2025-02-04T23:41:17","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T23:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/usaid-missions-overseas-ordered-to-shut-down-by-friday\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T23:41:17","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T23:41:17","slug":"usaid-missions-overseas-ordered-to-shut-down-by-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/usaid-missions-overseas-ordered-to-shut-down-by-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"USAID missions overseas ordered to shut down by Friday"},"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 id=\"\">\n<p><em>Washington<\/em> \u2014 All overseas missions for the U.S. Agency for International Development, or <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-and-elon-musk-are-upending-usaid-heres-what-to-know-about-its-work\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">USAID<\/a><\/span>, have been ordered to shut down and all staff will be recalled by Friday, multiple sources confirmed to CBS News.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/usaid-merged-into-state-department\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">newly appointed<\/a><\/span> deputy administrator for the agency, Pete Marocco, met with State Department leadership on Tuesday and instructed them to get every USAID employee out of their respective countries worldwide by Friday, according to two sources familiar with the matter. Marocco said that if the State Department did not, the staff would be evacuated by the U.S. military, the sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The agency\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/usaid-merger-trump-white-house-atul-gawande\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">provides humanitarian aid<\/a><\/span>\u00a0to more than 100 countries, including disaster relief, health and medical aid, and emergency food programs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>USAID has more than 10,000 employees, with about two-thirds serving overseas, according to a Congressional Research Service <a href=\"https:\/\/crsreports.congress.gov\/product\/pdf\/IF\/IF10261\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">report<\/a>. The agency maintains more than<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>60 country and regional missions.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration has <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/musk-says-administration-is-on-verge-of-shutting-usaid\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">targeted USAID<\/a><\/span> as the president and his allies \u2014 including billionaire <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/elon-musk-special-government-employee-what-does-that-mean\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Elon Musk<\/a><\/span>, the head of the Department of Government Efficiency, or <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-doge-executive-order-elon-musk-us-digital-service-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">DOGE<\/a><\/span> \u2014 seek to cut the size of the federal government.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The future of the agency \u2014 which was established in 1961 to combat poverty, strengthen democracy and protect human rights and global health \u2014 is now uncertain.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Musk has said the agency should be shut down, arguing that it&#8217;s &#8220;beyond repair.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When asked Tuesday whether he would wind down USAID, Trump told reporters, &#8220;It sounds like it.&#8221; The president also praised Musk for scrutinizing the agency.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Look at all the fraud that he&#8217;s found,&#8221; Mr. Trump said, adding that funding has gone to &#8220;all sorts of groups that shouldn&#8217;t deserve to get any money.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But Dr. Atul Gawande, former USAID Global Health director,\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/usaid-merger-trump-white-house-atul-gawande\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">told CBS News<\/a><\/span>\u00a0the move to target the agency is &#8220;dangerous for the country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What we&#8217;re talking about are disaster relief workers, we&#8217;re talking about health workers and people who are doing good and protecting America around the world,&#8221; Gawande said. &#8220;You&#8217;re talking about 20 million people in the\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/funding-aids-relief-pepfar-foreign-aid-millions-medication\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">global HIV program<\/a><\/span>\u00a0that has reduced HIV around the world, they are going without medication that keeps them alive. You&#8217;re talking about disease outbreaks that are not being stopped,\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/as-bird-flu-ravages-poultry-industry-the-damage-spreads\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">like bird flu<\/a><\/span>, where monitoring has been turned off in 49 countries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In fiscal year 2023, USAID managed more than $40 billion in appropriations, the Congressional Research Service said, an amount that is less than 1% of the overall federal budget.<\/p>\n<p>Most of that funding went to governance programs, intended to help develop and strengthen democratic governance, followed by humanitarian and health programs, according to the report. 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