{"id":137933,"date":"2025-03-03T09:05:34","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T07:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/news\/usaid-official-warns-of-unnecessary-deaths-from-trumps-foreign-aid-block-then-says-hes-been-put-on-leave\/"},"modified":"2025-03-03T09:05:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T07:05:34","slug":"usaid-official-warns-of-unnecessary-deaths-from-trumps-foreign-aid-block-then-says-hes-been-put-on-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/usaid-official-warns-of-unnecessary-deaths-from-trumps-foreign-aid-block-then-says-hes-been-put-on-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"USAID official warns of unnecessary deaths from Trump\u2019s foreign aid block, then says he\u2019s been put on leave"},"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\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\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=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137933\" \/>\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    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/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>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>A senior official with the U.S. Agency for International Development in an email on Sunday warned that the Trump administration&#8217;s dismantling of the agency will result in unnecessary deaths &#8212; only to email his staff less than 30 minutes later to say that he had been placed on leave.<\/p>\n<p>Nicholas Enrich, USAID&#8217;s acting assistant administrator for global health, in the seven-page memo shared with staff, and which was seen by Reuters, said &#8221;political leadership&#8221; had made it impossible to deliver lifesaving humanitarian assistance around the world, contradicting assurances from Secretary of State Marco Rubio that such aid would continue despite President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk&#8217;s cost-cutting campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty minutes later, Enrich sent another email, which was also seen by Reuters, that he had &#8221;just received notification that I have been placed on administrative leave, effective immediately.&#8221; A source familiar with the matter said the decision to put Enrich on administrative leave was made Wednesday, before he sent his email on the consequences of USAID&#8217;s dismantling. Spokespeople for the State Department and DOGE did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Enrich did not respond to a query from Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>The blocked USAID programs include efforts to help contain a deadly Ebola outbreak in Uganda that had killed two and infected 10, Enrich said in the memo seen by Reuters. &#8221;This will no doubt result in preventable death, destabilization, and threats to national security on a massive scale,&#8221; Enrich wrote in the memo, which was dated Feb. 28 and shared widely with staff in the global health division on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration announced last week that it was canceling nearly 10,000 foreign aid grants and contracts worth almost $60 billion, ending about 90% of USAID&#8217;s global work. The shuttering of USAID is part of an unprecedented downsizing of the federal government by Musk&#8217;s so-called Department of Government Efficiency. The agency&#8217;s sudden demise has thrown global humanitarian relief efforts into chaos.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/usaid-official-warns-unnecessary-deaths-trumps-foreign-aid-block-then-says-hes-2025-03-03\/\">Reuters World<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vau-viikkokatsaus\/usaid-official-warns-of-unnecessary-deaths-from-trumps-foreign-aid-block-then-says-hes-been-put-on-leave\/\">USAID official warns of unnecessary deaths from Trump\u2019s foreign aid block, then says he\u2019s been put on leave<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","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":[18097,18098,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-137933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-trumps-foreign-aid-block","tag-usaid","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}