USAID offices in Washington are closed, employees are ordered to stay at home

The headquarters of the American International Development Agency USAID remained on Monday closed after the employees received emails demanding not to come to work the night before.

The agency’s website and its pages on social networks stopped working, and the agency’s logos are removed from the headquarters building.

This step followed after the on the eve of two agency security managers were dismissed, who did not let the people of Ilon Mask (who headed the government of government efficiency) into certain parts of the headquarters.

USAID is the world’s largest humanitarian aid donor, managing a budget of $ 43 billion and acting in 130 countries of the world. USAID is 42% of all humanitarian assistance supplied by the UN. The agency also provides medical assistance, finances projects for mine clearance and vaccination, etc.

Mask, who calls the agency “Criminal Organization”, wrote in his social network X, which received the consent of President Donald Trump to close it.

Reuters, citing their own sources, reports that Musk and Trump intend to transfer the agency’s budget to the state department.

It should be noted that USAID has invested billions of dollars in projects in Israel for many years, but it stopped doing this after the transition of Israel to the category of developed countries. At the same time, the agency is a major donor of projects in the Palestinian autonomy. Among other things, it was considered as a possible replacement for Unrwa in the Gaza sector.