On Monday, January 27, the United States Office for Administration and Budget sent an unprecedented Guidance Directing all government agencies to implement a comprehensive freezing on trillion dollars in federal scholarships, loans and other financial assistance programs. “Trump’s temporary suspension” will provide a time to review the agency’s programs and determine the best financing uses. The cessation of payments was the start of the next day – January 28 – on 5 evening.
The advertisement sparked widespread confusion and lack of ratification. In the massive seizure of power of Congress, it seemed almost stopped by every federal program that touches the lives of people except for social security and medical care. Umb I specified twenty -six hundred affected programs. These grants include law enforcement activities and internal security activities; Community Health centers; Fire control clinical trials throughout the country; Special education programs; And meals on wheels for the elderly. Even the payment portal to Medicaid countries, which the administration promised to be not affected. Minutes before 5 evening The deadline, a federal judge prohibited the implementation of the freezing so that you can review the challenge from Many prosecutors. Then today, Ombe canceled her matter. The legitimacy of the plan was mysterious like intentions.
A week before the announcement, we received a clear signal of what was in the store. On January 20, center A barrage of executive orders Trump signed after the opening-in the American withdrawal from the World Health Organization-was an order to stop new foreign spending obligations for ninety days. Shortly later, the new foreign minister, Marco Rubio, issued an order to stop the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the US International Development Agency, which stops the new awards, but almost all the programs that exist.
Foreign aid has been long funded by the party majority in Congress as an angle of national security, as well as diplomacy and defense. This supports work, and many of it through contractors and NGOs, with countries around the world in the areas of mutual interests. Examples include combating world diseases threats and malnutrition; halt Human trafficking And drug trafficking; Advance access to education for girls; and Removing post -war countries like Vietnam Cambodia. In the days after that, however, organizations across the United States and the world have received messages that they should stop every work and use the current funds immediately. No employees can be paid. No services can be provided. No medications or seating supplies can be used on the shelves.
“To be clear, there is nothing like a temporary stop,” Michael Chevir, a former US Agency for International Development. books. “When a non -governmental organization, a small company or an American company receives American government funding to implement US foreign assistance to stop work, even for 90 days, this means that people are launched, and the experience is lost, and programs are closed with them, there is no guarantee that they will start reserves, even If they survive the review.
On January 27, major parts of employees working at the United States Agency for International Development were cleared. The classes from the Civil and Foreign Service Command highlighted-seven people, including the Agency’s general advisor and ethical lawyer-their badges were stopped and placed on an immediate leave. Technical experts and support staff who were appointed through contractors – which includes half of the international workforce of the US Agency for International Development. The orders of the remaining employees ordered that they had not only had to stop financing with partner organizations, but they should also stop communicating with them. There can be no exchange of information or information exchange, whether with the World Health Organization or local universities and non -profit organizations. The American centers to control diseases were placed under a similar gag.
The effect was a disaster. I know the impact on health programs clearly, after the US Agency for International Health Development Office operated during the recent administration. For example, the United States has a limited vision in the outbreak of infectious disease in many parts of the world, such as Russia and China. So the American Agency for International Development has funded experts in neighboring countries, such as Kazakhstan, which sits between these two appointed, to upgrade monitoring and exchange information about bird flu and other deadly diseases. This work has stopped.
Many other programs are affected by the same. The American Agency for International Development with the World Health Organization and the Tanzania government are fighting in the outbreak of the Margurg virus – cousin Ebola With no approved test, drugs, vaccine, and death rate of ninety percent.
The United States government’s work with countries around the world, and from, and UNICEFTo make up polio–
Clearing and connecting the US Agency for International Development and delivering more than one billion dollars from drug donation, which brought neglected tropical diseases such as the river blindness and the elephant’s entry into the edge of the judiciary in the entire regions of the world.
Spreading medicines, supplies, training of employees and systems that help more than twenty -five countries to increase access to vaccinations, prenatal care, safe childbirth, contraceptives, and other health services to save life in their favor. Ninety -two million women and childrenThe program greatly reduced death rates.
America celebrated Global HIV program, PePfar– completely silent. This includes research experiments in HIV. Providing low -cost daily medications, which keep twenty million people suffering from HIV in more than fifty countries; A new American medicine can be finished AIDS The epidemic-HIV treatment and prevention is called LenacAPAVIR, which provides six months of protection in one shot.
The effects go beyond health. The US Agency for International Development includes the largest military operational capacity of the United States to help countries in many areas of mutual cooperation. The agency has built a network of hundreds of thousands of employees across the United States and the world, and is supported to do this mainly through grants and federal contracts. This infrastructure is the American soft power engine. Within days – and violating the laws and budgets approved by Congress – the Trump administration was simply tried to redirect the USA’s International Development Agency policy and even the ability of the agency.
This is not a temporary stop. It is destruction. All of this is completely unrelated to doing a “review”. Each review department takes from top to bottom for policy and spending, making changes-even major changes, and transferring entire agencies activities. But they behave through constitutionally specific operations to achieve this – and work to protect people and institutions from harm. By closing most of the US Agency’s existing activities and clearing the people who run it, Donald Trump and his allies spoil the entire structure.
In light of the general scrutiny and the escalating pressure from Congress, Secretary Rubio did not eliminate the freezing of external aid financing, but instead he only released parts of it, including some international health programs. “The global health assistance programs for HIV and malaria, tuberculosis control, diet, and premature birth, immunization, or work resume if stop,” the waiver says. However, it is unclear how “life provision” will be defined narrowly. Appeal temporary. (How many time has not been determined.) It appears that working to combat the outbreak of new diseases, eliminating diseases such as polio, and supporting contraceptive methods excluded from waiver. In addition, the demolition of employees already turns the agency into a shadow himself.
A century ago now, the United States has led the world to cooperation and influence in health, which doubled the average life expectancy of all humanity – and has provided significant results that exceed health. If this administration really wants to put America first, it will be based on this legacy. Instead, it destroys us standing, our ability and leading experience in the world, and our national security.
The administration seemed determined to publish this playing book via the entire federal agencies and activities of the United States. There are other institutions that lead full areas of monetary work – environmental protection, education, employment, and control of diseases, for example their funding. External aid is a spot in the government budget 6.75-till-dollar. About eight billion dollars last year, the World Health Agency for International Development is smaller than many hospital systems. But the agency’s experience reveals the remainder of the stake – the collective ability of the American government to follow the public good. ♦
