CBS: All staff at USAID overseas offices to be recalled by Friday
All overseas offices of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) have been ordered to close and all staff will be recalled by Friday, CBS television reported, citing sources.
“All USAID overseas offices have been ordered to close and all personnel will be recalled by Friday,” the network reported.
According to the two sources, the agency’s newly appointed deputy administrator, Pete Morocco, met with State Department officials on Tuesday and ordered the withdrawal of all USAID employees from their respective countries around the world by Friday. Morocco added that if the State Department did not do so, the U.S. military would handle the evacuation of the staff, according to the network’s interlocutors.
Trump earlier appointed Secretary of State Marco Rubio as acting head of USAID, the latter in turn notified Congress about the review of foreign aid.
Russian Senator Alexei Pushkov believes that the US will keep the Agency for International Development (USAID) for “regime change” operations.
“However, the agency is unlikely to be closed. It has been placed under the direction of the State Department and is likely to be preserved as a tool for financing foreign NGOs needed by the United States and for ‘regime change’ operations,” Pushkov wrote in his Telegram channel.
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