For some thousands of employees of the United States Agency for International Development, they were left for forgetfulness after the Trump administration has blocked their agency, there are few ways to return to work.
To restore access to their computers, for each email message reviewed by TPM, some employees were told that they need to pass through the political appoinals. To obtain grants or flow of other funds again, workers need to submit requests to the Ministry of Foreign Aid Office, known as “F” within the United States Agency for International Development and the State.
The new directives create a series of obstacles to issuing the money that has been allocated or granted for a long time, and comes amid the chaos launched by the Trump administration’s disturbance to the agency. In the talks with TPM, one of the US Agency for International Development has described the number of political appointed those who refused to communicate with the employees after their arrival, and put a fateful tone; Another described view on a computer screen from deployment abroad, where millions of dollars were frozen of food aid.
In some cases, people who run these barriers on the roads have a long history with Trump. House Maroco, a former national security official during the first period of Trump, in Cost From external aid in the state. Marocco drew attention partially because NBC News I mentionedThe source researchers set it open as entering the Capitol through a broken window on January 6.
In another example, TPM can report that the head of the US Agency for the New International Development for Humanitarian Aid, which coordinates food, health care, shelter, and others January 2021 after expressing the rebellion support on January 6. Since then, Meisburger has kept x account He suggested a lot in support of the rebellion at some point, Republicans must simulate the tactics used by the rebels in Vietnam and Afghanistan, and called for the “intestine” for the higher executive service.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not respond to a request to comment. Marocco nor Meisburger did not respond to comment.
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President Trump’s campaign to destroy the government, with Elon Musk and Doug, has achieved the first killing with the United States Agency for International Development. The first weeks of the administration witnessed the orders of the office issuing almost freezing the entire aid budget, while placing severe areas of its employees on an administrative leave. Foreign Minister Marco Rubio announced that he will become an official official for a new version of the United States Agency for International Development that will be present within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs – a series of measures that challenge a public decision in the Congress to create and finance the agency as an independent body.
Since then, a series of scattered court orders has sought to retreat from some damage, or at least maintain the agency in the hanging animation. This week, one of the judges extended something that shows that the United States Agency for International Development maintains the employees he put on an administrative leave; Another judge will temporarily raise the agency to freeze on external aid.
But last week, many TPM employees told the resumption of their work difficult.
Many workers remain closed from their computers. When one of them contacted the USA’s International Development Support Assistant Office to restore access, the person received a message that the office cannot restore accounts “without permission from the political leadership.”
“In the event that the user is no longer able to access his account at the United States Agency for International Development, there is a job driving a profession for the user/office with his political leadership to request the confirmation of the procedure,” says the message seen by TPM.
It represents an explicit political obstacle for the US Agency for International Development, many of whom are concentrated abroad, and who want to restore access to their accounts to resume work.
Two current employees at the US International Development Agency for TPM, a parallel situation that appeared with the resumption of granting external assistance.
There, Trump officials have created an operation in which the current heterogeneous grants can be subject to the assignment office of the Assistance Goals Office, for all the interviews and records obtained by TPM. Another bottle neck creates to allow some dollars in aid to resume flow.
Who is in driving?
The question of who manages the mysterious things of some of the US Agency for International Development, who are closed and unable to resume relief work.
But people who were installed in major situations can make a revealing look.
Take Meisburger, the new assistant of the Humanitarian Aid Office.
During the first period of Trump, Meisburger worked as a appointment responsible for democracy and rule at the United States Agency for International Development. For the person who worked with him, he looked relatively natural – conservative, but he is not in particular or outside the ordinary for the rest of the federal workforce.
“The next time I saw him in the Washington Post, he is registered to defend January 6,” the person remembers.
Missberger It is said The US Agency for International Development left before the end of Trump in January 2021 after informing the employees in a video call that “a few violent people” caused riots, while “millions” was peaceful.
Over the past few years, Meisburger has repeated those claims on X. He answered in one post, July 2024, which includes Steve Bannon by writing “This is the way the rebellion wins. Never despair. The revolution has been the longest war for a long time for some reason. Vietnam and Afghanistan offer other examples of this principle at work.”
On another occasion, Meisburger books On X, in response to a job indicating that senior civil service employees may have assumed them as a president to buy the sun, Biden, “For this reason we need SES, unite federal employees in the term.”
After a riot in January 6, he was sentenced to six years in prison on charges of pepper, Braiol Capitol, Brian Sisnik, who later died, Missberger to publish: “This is incredibly disgusting. What happened to this country? Sicknick was his face washed and this deserved to be imprisoned for six years?”
There is nothing that indicates that the opinions of Meisburger about January 6 extended beyond the words.
Responsible for external aid, Maroco, has not been charged with anything related to the Capitol rebellion. Online investigators with fishermen of sedition It was identified It was also claimed that he entered the building through a broken window on January 6; He has to reject Claiming in the name of “trivial mutilation tactics”.
For the US Agency for International Development, it is a reminder that the agency’s destruction has proportions directly to obstructing Congress on January 6.