{"id":5888,"date":"2025-02-13T15:19:57","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T15:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/usaid-lifesaving-aid-remains-halted-despite-rubios-promise\/"},"modified":"2025-02-13T15:19:57","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T15:19:57","slug":"usaid-lifesaving-aid-remains-halted-despite-rubios-promise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/usaid-lifesaving-aid-remains-halted-despite-rubios-promise\/","title":{"rendered":"USAID Lifesaving Aid Remains Halted Despite Rubio\u2019s Promise"},"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\">When Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced last month that lifesaving humanitarian work would be exempt from a freeze on foreign aid, global health workers breathed a collective sigh of relief.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But a new directive has put such exemptions on hold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Several senior employees at the U.S.A.I.D. Bureau of Global Health received an email Tuesday telling them to \u201cplease hold off on any more approvals\u201d pending further directions from the acting chief of staff, according to a copy reviewed by The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Senior officials at the Bureau of Humanitarian Assistance received similar instructions during a meeting this week, according to a person familiar with what transpired.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For weeks, U.S.A.I.D. officials and the organizations, contractors and consultants who partner with them have struggled to continue the kind of work that Mr. Rubio promised to preserve \u2014 \u201ccore lifesaving medicine, medical services, food, shelter and substance assistance.\u201d<\/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\">Some waivers have been issued to programs that fall under Mr. Rubio\u2019s definition of \u201clifesaving\u201d aid, but the payments system called Phoenix that U.S.A.I.D. relies on to disburse financial assistance has been inaccessible for weeks. That means even programs that received waivers have struggled to continue, according to multiple employees of U.S.A.I.D. and the partner organizations that rely on the funding they distributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The State Department did not reply to a request for comment for this article.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Tuesday, Elon Musk, the billionaire tech entrepreneur <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/11\/us\/politics\/trump-musk-oval-office.html\" title=\"\">empowered by President Trump<\/a> to combat the agency, told reporters in the Oval Office that the administration had \u201cturned on funding for Ebola prevention and for H.I.V. prevention.\u201d But in reality, the Ebola funding and virtually all of the H.I.V. prevention funding remains frozen, according to two U.S.A.I.D. employees and several aid groups.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Young engineers working for Mr. Musk seized control of the agency\u2019s payments system as they took over in recent weeks. And as part of the dismantling overseen by Mr. Musk, the State Department also recently circulated plans to reduce U.S.A.I.D. staff from about 10,000 workers to 611 who had been deemed essential personnel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Without access to funding, organizations that partner with U.S.A.I.D. have been unable to pay their workers and suppliers for projects that were dependent on U.S. government funding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Norwegian Refugee Council, which does U.S.-backed humanitarian work in about 20 countries, said it has been unable to take advantage of the waivers because the agency\u2019s payments had stopped.<\/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\">\u201cWe currently have millions of dollars in outstanding payment requests to the U.S. government,\u201d the group said in a statement, noting that civilians in conflict zones like Ukraine, Afghanistan and Sudan would suffer if its work stopped. \u201cWithout an immediate solution we may, at the end of February, be forced to halt U.S.-funded lifesaving humanitarian programs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">New political appointees at the State Department and U.S.A.I.D. have put other hurdles in place. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At one mission in Asia, officials received waivers for three programs, including one for malaria eradication, but then were told they needed waivers for individual projects under those programs, a person with knowledge of the impasse said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Beleaguered U.S.A.I.D. staff members said this week that the waiver pause was a sign that the end of their lifesaving work and other projects may be near.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Agency officials were notified this week that some 350 awards would be canceled. It was not immediately clear how many of those contracts were on <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/06\/us\/politics\/usaid-job-cuts.html\" title=\"\">a list that circulated last week identifying about 800 potential award<\/a> cancellations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Unlike previous notifications, emails sent to staff on Wednesday alerting them to some of the most recent cancellations did not encourage them to check for potential exemptions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">People deputized by Mr. Trump and Mr. Musk have accused U.S.A.I.D. officials of delaying and trying to undermine efforts to terminate programs by conducting their own reviews of contracts to ensure lifesaving work is not canceled. However, those reviews would be needed to grant the waivers promised by Mr. Rubio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As the reductions get underway, unions representing U.S.A.I.D. staff as well as companies and organizations that work with the aid agency have been scrambling to push back against the cuts through a series of lawsuits. Some have succeeded in obtaining temporary restraining orders against the president\u2019s efforts to dismantle the agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The plaintiffs have argued that the downsizing measures are unconstitutional and illegal, as Congress appropriated the funds for the agency and, by law, has to approve their withdrawal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In one lawsuit, filed by companies that have had U.S.A.I.D. contracts for global programs, a development firm reported that $250 million worth of health supplies were stuck in transit or \u201cstranded in warehouses around the world\u201d because of the stop-work orders that accompanied the freeze. The firm, Chemonics, had to furlough about two-thirds of its U.S.-based staff in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Lawyers for the Trump administration argued in a response to one of the lawsuits that \u201cthe president has broad discretion to set the terms and conditions\u201d on the provision of aid.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As the legal battles wear on, the drastic changes to the U.S. government\u2019s premier foreign aid agency continue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Tuesday, the Trump administration fired the inspector general for U.S.A.I.D., Paul K. Martin, just one day after he released a report warning that staff reductions and spending freezes risked the misuse and waste of hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars, according to three people familiar with the dismissal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The report documented confusion around the waivers. It warned that nearly half a billion dollars of food aid was at risk of spoiling, and that a reduced ability to vet partner organizations had made it more difficult to ensure no U.S. money would go toward terrorism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Also on Tuesday, the agency made another round of cuts to contractors, the latest at U.S.A.I.D. to be forced to leave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">And the General Services Administration, a federal agency that oversees building leases and other contracts, in recent days terminated the U.S.A.I.D.\u2019s lease for headquarters space in the Ronald Reagan Building in downtown Washington. The General Services Administration said in a statement on Tuesday that it took down the aid agency\u2019s signs and that the 570,000-square-foot space would be \u201crepurposed for other government needs.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">U.S.A.I.D. employees in the building lobby on Monday reported seeing officials from other agencies, including U.S. Customs and Border Protection, surveying the office space. Employees learned on Tuesday that they had lost parking privileges because the agency\u2019s leases had been canceled, according to a copy of an internal email obtained by The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Almost all of the agency\u2019s employees have been barred from entering its headquarters for more than a week, though some of them were given access to their work email accounts this week in order to prepare for their departures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Foreign Service officers working for the agency overseas have been ordered to leave their posts and return to the United States this month, as part of a move putting the vast majority of direct hires on administrative leave. The order has been temporarily delayed by a federal judge, who will next hear arguments in the case on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Employees say they expect most of U.S.A.I.D.\u2019s work force to be fired or pushed out, and the few remaining to be absorbed into the State Department. Both Mr. Trump and Mr. Musk, who has posted dark conspiracy theories about the aid agency on his social media platform, X, have called for its demise.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<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<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/12\/us\/politics\/usaid-waivers-rubio.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced last month that 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