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With regards to the USAID stuff, I went over it with [the president] in detail and he agreed that we should shut it down.”
On Monday, Musk – who was speaking in a public conversation on X, the social media platform he owns – said I love the concept, but they turned out to be radical left lunatics. The concept of it is good, but it's all about the people,
There is a great deal of harm being done, and this change to take away the independent status [of USAID] is just a nail in the coffin after a purge of personnel that has decimated the agency,
We had some meetings over the weekend, and there was just a lot of uncertainty,
Reap said in an interview with CBS News Because, I mean, there's so many things related to the work we do,
You're talking about 20 million people in the global HIV program that has reduced HIV around the world, they are going without medication that keeps them alive,
We're talking about world-class expertise. For example, the malaria program. Two-thirds have been fired, and the activity shutdown includes one of the global experts in malaria for us. How does that make us safer? How does that make us stronger?"
Every administration goes through an overhaul that says they want to change policy, they want to change some direction, but you don't decimate and demolish the institution in the process. There was no need to close down all of its functions, which is harming people."
What we're talking about are disaster relief workers, we're talking about health workers and people who are doing good and protecting America around the world."
It's not an overhaul. It's a destruction."
Asked about the changes, he said This terrible waste of a [temporary duty travel] with all the planning and investment that had gone into it, and it was for nothing,
USAID has a history of sort of ignoring that and deciding that there's somehow a global charity separate from the national interest,
Congress established the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) as an independent agency, separate from the Department of State, to ensure that we can deploy development expertise and U.S. foreign assistance quickly, particularly in times of crisis, to meet our national security goals,
For this reason, any effort to merge or fold USAID into the Department of State should be, and by law must be, previewed, discussed, and approved by Congress,
Frequently, in the past, our development goals and projects have not been undertaken as integral steps in a long-range economic development program,
We will do everything we can to block State Department nominees from going forward until this illegal action is reversed,
The best testament to USAID's contribution is the surge in PRC-backed and Russian-backed propaganda maligning USAID and our work around the world,
she said, using the initials of China's official name, the People's Republic of China We had millions of dollars in invoices due to be paid that had been approved by our clients in the U.S. government...We quickly understood that this was a serious threat to our business,
It's not just the personal stress of I've lost my job... It's also the reality that global health as we know it, and the work that we do - saving lives and also protecting Americans - has been put on pause, and the trust and relationships that we have worked so hard (for), that are so integral to the U.S. influence in the global sphere, have all been ruptured,
We regret the decision and we hope the US will reconsider,
Tedros told the opening of the WHO's executive board meeting
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