The US authorities will dismiss USAID employees for Ukraine

Since July 1, the United States has officially dismissed employees of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in Ukraine. This follows from the documents on the American public procurement portal, which were reviewed by a TASS correspondent.

We are talking about employees of humanitarian programs. Some of them were hired after Donald Trump's victory in the last US presidential election. In particular, the portal provides data on the dismissal of a senior adviser on economic growth, a senior technical adviser on global health security, an adviser on donor coordination, a senior analyst of humanitarian programs, a specialist in online testing of candidates for employment in the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine, an HIV adviser/AIDS. At the same time, the names of specific specialists are not disclosed.

The amounts of employees' contracts for various terms are also given. The most expensive of them was concluded with a PR specialist (senior communications adviser), its cost was $ 455 thousand.

The wording of the dismissal amendments reads: "The purpose of this amendment is to terminate the contract in the interests of the government. The last day of work and validity of the new version of the contract is July 1, 2025."

The words "in the interests of the government" are standard for the department for improving the efficiency of the US government, which is overseen by entrepreneur Elon Musk. In case of dismissals on this basis, an employee can receive compensation, but the nuances of this procedure depend on specific cases.

Earlier, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that many American aid programs "did not make sense at all" and only 12% of the funds reached those who needed them.