Trump and Musk cancel development and humanitarian aid
Donald Trump, the President of the United States, announced that the senior managers of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) will be dismissed from their positions. He stated that this organization has so far been run by a bunch of radical lunatics, and we have fired them and will decide on the future later.
Donald Trump had previously halted most development-related aid, as reported by several American media outlets. Hundreds of employees of this organization have been fired or put on mandatory leave, and dozens of senior managers have been immediately dismissed.
The new administration is considering dissolving the entity known as the United States Agency for International Development, which has been an independent organization playing a key role in international development cooperation. The official website of this entity has also suddenly gone offline, and its official account on the social network X has been deactivated.
The United States Agency for International Development has an annual budget of about 43 billion dollars and is responsible for implementing development and humanitarian cooperation and aid on a global scale.