{"id":140152,"date":"2025-05-22T09:10:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T06:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/exclusive-state-department-refugee-office-to-assume-usaids-disaster-aid-role-says-cable\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T09:10:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T06:10:00","slug":"exclusive-state-department-refugee-office-to-assume-usaids-disaster-aid-role-says-cable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/exclusive-state-department-refugee-office-to-assume-usaids-disaster-aid-role-says-cable\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: State Department refugee office to assume USAID\u2019s disaster aid role, says cable"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140152\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>The State Department office that handles refugee issues and works to cut illegal migration will lead the U.S. response to overseas disasters, according to excerpts from an internal department cable, a role for which experts say it lacks the knowhow and personnel. The Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration, known as PRM, is assuming that function from the U.S. Agency for International Development, the main U.S. foreign aid agency that the Trump administration has been dismantling, say the excerpts reviewed by Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>USAID&#8217;s gutting &#8211; largely overseen by billionaire Elon Musk as part of U.S. President Donald Trump, opens new tab&#8217;s drive to shrink the federal government &#8211; has already led to what many experts called the administration&#8217;s late and inadequate response to a serious earthquake in Myanmar on March 25. The excerpts come from a cable known as an ALDAC, which stands for &#8221;All Diplomatic and Consular Posts,&#8221; sent this week to U.S. embassies and other diplomatic posts worldwide. Reuters could not learn the precise date of the ALDAC.<\/p>\n<p>Under the new arrangement, all U.S. overseas missions should consult with PRM on foreign disaster declarations, said the cable. &#8221;With approval from PRM based on established criteria for international disaster assistance, up to $100,000 can be issued to support the initial response,&#8221; it continued. &#8221;Additional resources may be forthcoming based on established humanitarian need&#8221; in consultation with other State Department offices.<\/p>\n<p>The State Department did not respond immediately to a request for comment. A source familiar with the matter confirmed on condition of anonymity the authenticity of the excerpts. Only 20 experts out of the roughly 525 who did the work at USAID&#8217;s Bureau of Humanitarian Assistance and its Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Relief are being hired by PRM, the source said. But, the source continued, the number is far from adequate and the PRM leadership has &#8221;no concept of how to&#8221; mount responses to major overseas disasters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;They do not understand disaster response,&#8221; said the source. &#8221;It&#8217;s a joke. It&#8217;s ridiculous,&#8221; said Jeremy Konyndyk, a former director of the Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Relief who serves as president of Refugees International, an advocacy organization. &#8221;PRM is not an operational entity. They do important stuff but this is not what they do.&#8221; In past years, the U.S. has regularly deployed some of the world&#8217;s most skilled rescue workers quickly to save lives in response to tsunamis, earthquakes and other disasters.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/state-department-refugee-office-assume-usaids-disaster-aid-role-says-cable-2025-05-22\/\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/state-department-refugee-office-assume-usaids-disaster-aid-role-says-cable-2025-05-22\/\">Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vau-viikkokatsaus\/exclusive-state-department-refugee-office-to-assume-usaids-disaster-aid-role-says-cable\/\">Exclusive: State Department refugee office to assume USAID\u2019s disaster aid role, says cable<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[18880,18098,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-140152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-aid-role","tag-usaid","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}