The Trump administration has asked researchers and organizations that are being conducted abroad to reveal relations with those who are considered hostile, including “entities associated with communist, socialist or totalitarian parties,” according to a questionnaire obtained by the New York Times.
The survey was sent online this week to groups operating abroad to search for diseases such as HIV, collecting monitoring data and enhancing public health systems. Recltor received funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the United States Agency for International Development and other federal sources.
The questionnaire seems very similar to the questionnaire I was sent earlier this week R.O Partners of the United States Agency for International Development, which was dismantled by the Trump administration. Both were entitled “Review of Foreign Assistance”.
The recipient was directed to respond within 48 hours. Some of the beneficiaries that the Times have met that non -satisfactory answers can lead to the cancellation of financing.
The questionnaire said: “The dollars of subordinate or socialist taxpayers or corrupt regimes that oppose free institutions should not be funded, or interfere in the internal issues of another sovereign nation.”
He added: “The booming America really gives priority to local growth, innovation and economic power over foreign bulletins.”
A White House spokesman did not respond to a request to comment on the questionnaire.
The model asks a series of questions that adhere to cooperation, including whether grant recipients work with drug gangs or “groups that enhance group migration”.
He asks about the impact of programs, such as whether they have an effect on “promoting religious freedom and combating Christian persecution” in other countries.
The recipient asks whether they or their organizations cooperate with or receive funding from Russia, Cuba, Iran or China – including Confucius Institute, Who works with the Ministry of Education in China to enhance linguistic and cultural exchanges with American students.
Some federal officials who supervise the grants said that they were particularly dismayed by a question asking the beneficiaries to coordinate their societies with communist entities. The United States helps in health work in a number of communist countries, including Vietnam.
“Some donors are literally the structures of the public health government in a communist state.” “This is painful.”
Prizes and contracts for assistance groups were under review during a 90 -day interruption period on external aid, but in some cases they were canceled and recovered during the past few weeks. Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered The federal government to resume payments.
Various versions of the questionnaires have been sent from Wednesday, and the final dates seem to range from midnight on Friday to 5 pm Monday. But the operation was full of confusion.
Some donors seem to have been given extensions, while others have been rejected. Some have noticed that the deadline seems to be a shift as further copies of the questionnaire were received every day.
Reclinors included scientists at large universities and research programs in the United States, as well as small organizations abroad. Some questionnaires seem to have sent a mistake; One was received by the Ministry of Health in Maine.
A main investigator received two grants from the Disease Control Center for local research projects e -mail Thursday evening, only to receive another Friday morning telling him to ignore previous mistakes.
The answers are supposed to be filled by one person in one session, without any way to save the responses for a vacation. The 30 -minute important model is estimated, including the time needed to collect the necessary data and documents.
One of the scientists, who spoke unknown for fear of losing funding, said: “The chaotic method in which these work orders stop, finish, concessions, prizes, and investigative studies – all of this with fast -end dates and the minimum communication – have been dispensed and incredibly destroyed.”
Some American donors have turned into lawyers for advice on how to express responses.
Organizations based on the outside are in a non -favorable position. Stopping the contacts imposed by the Trump administration several weeks ago preventing them from talking to federal officials who may be able to help, according to one official at the Center for Disease Control.
The viewers are only allowed to speak to US officials in the countries where he resides.
“They may lose the vital money they need to do their job if they do not answer these questions appropriately,” said an unknown federal official.
