Former United States President Barack Obama and George W Bush have rebuked a rare open open rebuke of Donald Trump administration in an emotional video farewell with employees of the US Agency for International Development (USAID).
Obama called the Trump administration the disintegration of USAID “a huge mistake”.
Monday was the last day as an independent agency for the six-post-old-old human and development organization, built by President John F. Kennedy as a soft power, which was a peaceful way to promote US national security by promoting goodwill and prosperity.
State Secretary Marco Rubio on Tuesday ordered USAID to be absorbed in the US State Department.
Former Presidents and U2 singer Bono-he made tears reciting a poem-a videooconfire talked with thousands of people in the USAID community, which was billed as a bandh incident.
He expressed his praise for thousands of USAID employees who have lost their jobs and life work. His agency Trump and his billionaire ally Elon Musk were the first and most fierce target for government deduction, in which employees were suddenly excluded from systems and offices and abolished by large -scale emails.
Trump claimed that the agency was run by the “radical left lunetics” and was prevalent with “tremendous fraud”. Musk called it a “criminal organization”.
Obama, speaking in a recorded statement, assured the assistance and development workers, some were listening from abroad.
He said, “There has been talk in your work and it will matter for generations to come.”
Obama has largely kept a low public profile during Trump’s second term and avoided criticizing the seismic changes that Trump has done by Trump at home and abroad.
Obama said, “Grinding USAID is a tragedy, and it is a tragedy. Because it is some of the most important tasks happening anywhere in the world.” He not only credited USAID for life saving, but as a main factor in global economic development, which has converted some aid countries into American markets and trade partners.
The former Democratic President predicted that “sooner or later, the leaders on both sides of the corridor would realize how much you need”.
When asked for the comment, the Foreign Department said that the foreign aid of the department for USAID will be called America before this week.
The department said, “The new process will ensure that proper inspection and each tax dollar spent will help to pursue our national interests.”
The USAID provided water and life -saving food to millions of programs around the world’s programs around the world, Sudan, Syria, Gaza and other places, sponsored the “green revolution”, which brought a revolution in modern agriculture and karble starvation and famine. The agency worked in preventing outbreak of disease, promoting democracy and providing financing and development, allowing countries and people to get out of poverty.
Bush, who had also spoken in a recorded message, went directly to cut a historic AIDS and HIV program launched by his Republican administration and credited to save 25 million lives worldwide.
Aids for AIDS relief known as Pepfar helps to save the bilateral blow from the Congress to cut the emergency plan of the popular presidential, to save important funds for the program. But cuts and rule changes have reduced the number of life-saving care.
“You have shown the great power of America through your work – and this is your good heart,” Bush told USAID employees. “Is it in our national interests that 25 million people who must have died now, I think it is, and so you do,” he said.
More than 14 million of the world’s weakest people, one -third of them can die due to the move of the Trump administration, a study in the Lancet Journal on Tuesday.
“For many lower and medium-oriented countries, a result of a global epidemic or a major armed struggle will be comparable,” a researcher from Barcelona Institute for Global Health said in a statement said in a statement.
In Bono, Africa and elsewhere, a long -term human lawyer, “surprise guest”, was declared as a “guest”.
He recited a poem, which he wrote to the agency about his intestines. He talked about children who died of malnutrition, reference to millions of people who from Boston University researchers and other analysts say that the US deduction will die due to funding for health and other programs abroad.
“They call you a crook,” Bono said, “When you were the best of us.”
