An exit order of almost 60 career leaders in the US agency USAID employees A NBC News.
Hours later, the same employee of his career was also put on administrative license.
“The materials do not show evidence that you have participated in misconduct,” said Nick Gottlieb, director of employees and labor relations at USAID, in an email to the dozens of Usaid upper employees placed on license paid on Monday. “As a result, I no longer have the authority to stay in this state.”
Gottlieb acknowledged that he didn’t know how long his decision would last.
“You can receive another email within the day by restoring your license status. However, that notice will not come from me, “he wrote, adding:” I wish you all the best, you don’t deserve this. “
USAID has been staggering since the State Department announced an almost total freezing about the foreign aid of the United States in line with the executive order of President Donald Trump. In addition to the dozens of older officials and officials of the Foreign Service, placed on administrative license, hundreds of contractors per agency were fired this week, and hundreds are more licensed, according to two former and two current USAID employees. More permissions are expected in the next few days according to two of the sources.
Hours after restoring the senior career leadership on Thursday, Gottlieb also received an administrative license for rejecting a request from the main office of USAID and the newly created the efficiency of the Trump government to issue “immediate termination warnings to a group of Employees without due process, “he wrote in a farewell letter to all USAID employees reviewed by NBC.
“It is and always has been my office with the workforce that we ensure that all employees receive their due process in any of our actions,” Gottlieb wrote. “I will not be part of a violation of that commitment.”
He closed requesting that those who still work at the agency are friendly to their staff, which will undoubtedly be short of hand “it has been an honor to work with all of you in this agency, which treasure,” he wrote.
USAID and the State Department did not respond immediately to the request for comments from NBC News.
On Wednesday, Secretary of State Frame .
“We have this that I have called the Industrial Complex of Foreign Aid: all these entities around the world that millions and millions of dollars from the United States receive,” Rubio said in an interview on Thursday with Megyn Kelly. “We have to make sure that it is aligned with our national interest, that we are prioritizing that and that we are spending it on things that really matter and we are really producing.”
A former USAID official, Jeremy Konyndyk, warned that the damage caused by cuts for both US financing of help groups and the staff of the development world cannot be easily reversed.
“There is a symbiotic relationship between the United States government and its non -profit partners and contractors to implement the foreign aid policy of the United States, to pursue humanitarian objectives and global health objectives abroad,” said Konyndyk, said, Now president of the refugees of the International Aid. An interview. “It is very sophisticated. It is very intricate. If this continues for a really significant amount of time, it will really break the architecture of American foreign aid that has been developed for 50 years.”
