Washington (AP). Former presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush presented a rare open criticism of Trump’s administration – and the singer Bono recited a poem, arrested tears on Monday in an emotional video with the US International Development Agency.
Obama called the Trump’s administration dismantling the “huge mistake”.
Monday was the last day as an independent agency for the six decades -old Humanities and Development Organization, created by President John F. Kennedy as a peaceful way to promote US national security by increasing prestige and well -being abroad.
State Secretary Marco Rubio on Tuesday ordered USAIDs to absorb the State Department.
Former presidents and Bono talked to thousands of USAIDs at the community video conference, which was prescribed as a closed pressure event to make political leaders and others permissible sometimes angry and frequent tears. Parts of the video were shared with the Associated Press.
They expressed the rating for thousands of USAIDs who lost their jobs and life work. Their agency was one of the first and fiercest reduction of President Donald Trump and his billionaire ally, Elon Musk’s government, and staff suddenly closed systems and offices and interrupted mass e -mail. Letters.
Trump said the agency was headed by “radical left -handed lunatics” and “ree” with “huge fraud”. Musk called it a “criminal organization”.
Obama, speaking in the recorded report, offered reliable help and development staff, some listening to foreign.
“Your work has been important and will be important for future generations,” he said.
In the second term of Trump, Obama essentially retained its low profile of society and refrained from monumental changes that Trump made to US programs and priorities at home and abroad.
“Compounding USAIDs is a tragedy, and it is a tragedy. Because it is one of the most important works in anywhere in the world,” Obama said. He acknowledged USAID not only to save lives, but was also a major factor in the growth of the global economy, which has turned some of the aid countries into US markets and trading partners.
The former president of the Democrats predicted that “sooner or later the leaders of the passage will understand how much you need.”
Asked to comment, the State Department said this week the department’s foreign aid heir to USAID, which would be called America, would be introduced.
“The new process will ensure proper care and that every tax dollar spent will help increase our national interests,” the department said.
In the world under the supervision of USAIDs, supplying water and saving food to millions caused by conflict in Sudan, Syria, Gaza and elsewhere, supporting the Green Revolution, which caused a revolution in modern agriculture and hunger and hunger to prevent disease outbreaks, funding and expansion.
Bush, who also spoke in a recorded report, took directly into the reduction of an important AIDS program and HIV program, started by his Republican administration and credited to save 25 million lives worldwide.
Bipartisan from Congress to a popular presidential emergency plan for AIDS aid, reducing the reduction of Pepfar, has saved a great deal of program funding. However, incisions and changes to the rules reduced the number of rescue supervision.
“You have demonstrated great American strength in your work – and that is your good heart,” said Bush USaid staff. – Is it in our national interests that are 25 million people who would die now? I think that is the case and you, ”he said.
Former Liberia President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, former Colombian President Juan Santos and former US Ambassador UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield also talked to staff.
The humanitarian workers did so, including the one who talked about the welcome performance of USaid employees when she was a frightened 8 -year -old child at the Liberian Refugee Camp. The official food program official via Sobs has promised that someday US aid mission will return again.
Bono, a longtime humanitarian lawyer in Africa and elsewhere, was declared a “unexpected guest” shades and a lid.
He jokingly congratulated USAID staff as “secret international development agents”, recognizing the low low Monday’s informal meeting of the USAID community.
Bono was sometimes arrested by tears when he recited a poem he wrote to the agency and overcoming it. He talked about children who died from malnutrition, a reference to millions of people who say the Boston University researchers and other analysts say they will die in the US to reduce health and other programs abroad.
“They called you fraud. When you were the best of us,” Bono said.