Washington – Pair Court orders They had only a limited effect in slow down the Trump Administration Dismantling US International Development Agency And they left some USAID workers stationed around the world in insecure situations, staff claim.
The Trump Administration stopped the medical evacuation for as many as 25 USAID staff and spouses in the later stages of high-risk pregnancy abroad, in accordance with the testimony in lawsuits and the person who met cases. The person was not authorized to speak publicly to talk about the state of anonymity.
USAID “will take all measures as appropriate to ensure the safety and safety of current employees,” said Deputy Pete Marocco Administrator in court on Thursday, asking the judge to move forward Plan to withdraw all except the particles of employees from work Around the world.
Administration says that all the necessary concerns about the staff while ceasing USAID programs and aim Recall thousands of workers And their families abroad.
Multiple lawsuits from groups representing USAID workers and non-profit items and companies are challenged by the freezing of the President Donald Trump in foreign aid, USAID regions of work and sudden shutdown of the agency as a whole. Judicial orders temporarily blocked Halt to funding and removing thousands of workers from their posts, with judges about deciding on Friday whether to keep staff of difficulty. The Management Board accused USAID programs to be wasteful and promoting a liberal agenda.
Meanwhile, American women and spouses say they are left in substandard medical care in posts in unstable countries, fearing of their lives.
“Everyone says I have to wait and see what’s going on” with trump administrative decisions, USAID staff, whose pregnancy is complicated with high blood pressure, in court in unnecessary land in Africa.
Female avidectives and others from staff are anonymously submitted to the courts due to repeated warnings from the Trump Administration that USAID staff risk if they speak public.
“I have a deadline that doesn’t let me just wait and see what’s going on,” he wrote the USAID Staff. “If I can’t Medevc, as planned, I’ll be in a dangerous situation.”
In the second case, the Pregnant Spouse USAID left bleeding in a foreign hospital bed to wait for delivery, her husband said in another affiduish. The intervention of the American Senator, which was not identified in the statement, secured the Government Agreement to pay the medical evacuation. But doctors say that the approval came too late in its pregnancy to certainly take a long range of flights to the United States, even with medical escort.
The State Department did not respond to the request for comment on the states of the workers that the government stopped or rejected medical evacuation.
The American district CARL Nichols should decide whether to temporarily block a trump order that would insert thousands of USAID staff. Raising these orders could also allow administration to start an hour for a period of 30 days for USAID workers abroad to abandon their posts.
“This is a mess,” Nichols said at the hearing this week handling the USAID handling administration.
Lawyers for employee groups presented Nichols with accounts by saying that Trump administration left workers without direction or financing when Political violence in Congo forced his evacuation.
USAID officials paid for two meals and offered evacuated employees based on the Congo to look at the boxes of donated clothes after they arrived in Washington, said that staff, who were not identified in court documents.
The administration officials left the evacuated staff to lift tens of thousands of dollars in uncompensed hotel accounts, without guidance of whether they should stay in Washington, or will they still have a job or will still have a job, and will they still have a job .
USAID workers still describe their lives as in chaos and lack guidelines from the government, including USAID that would not pay for electricity bills.
Staffs told the courts in written testimony that the colors remain without time or funds to sell their homes or repay angry landlords who owe money. But they say they are afraid that they are targeted if they try to stay outside the current 30-day deadline – Frozen Nichols’ earlier order – to return to the US on the field.
Other staff offered testimony about interruption from US government communication. Multiple employees in the contract said AP that the “Panic button” apps and other warnings on their phones notify US government in case of security threat at least some time.
The current and former USAID officials say that the freezing and decreasing staff maintain even programs for rescue around the world, despite the Secretary of the State Brand Marco Rubio that gives renunciation.
This includes programs such as a Two-chained AIDS and HIV program – Called for the assistance of the President for AIDS, ie Pepfar – Saving more than 20 million lives in Africa, as well as the response to the disease that usually attempts to prevent the further cases of Ebola in Uganda, according to two officials for these programs.
Free staff also reduced some of the US teams from the response for earthquakes and other global crises, former USAID officials with direct knowledge about the situation.
All officials spoke of the state of anonymity for fear of retaliation.
While Rubio and others say that the witnesses enable Pepfar to continue – and have warned USAID staff against the spoken staff and the Federal Judge to not happen to not happen.
The USAID payment system has been disabled earlier in the shutdown, and remains non-functional, according to USAID staff.
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