The USAID website stopped working in the context of rumors on the closure of the agency

“There is no such account. Try to look for more, ”says the registration on the USAID page in X.

According to CNN, the agency’s website was disabled this Saturday without explanation.

According to the television channel, this happens at that time, “thousands of unpaid holiday shipments, abbreviations and closing programs continue in the context introduced by President Donald Trump, freezing the financing of external assistance programs and US development in everything The world “.

In the first week after the inauguration of Trump, the Secretary of State of the United States, Marco Rubio, ordered to freeze financing for assistance projects for several countries for 90 days.

According to Trump administration policy sources, the president’s team is studying the possibility of liquidating Usaid as an independent agency and involving it in the State Department.

The representatives of the Democratic Party in Congress believe that Trump does not have legal powers to eliminate the independent agency and the work of the “vital use for national security” of the United States.

At the same time, according to CNN, Trump and Republican congressmen are confident that most foreign assistance and development programs are wasteful. They distinguish programs that “promote the Liberal Social Agenda.”

USAID provided financial support to foreign projects, including Taiwan, Ukraine and Jordan. In 2023, $ 42.5 billion were assigned through the agency, $ 18.9 billion through the State Department.