The condemnation of the Help Agency USAID ordered by Trump and that joined Obama and Bush

The authors described the “amazing” figures and project that one third of people at risk of premature death were children.

However, a state department official said that the study used “incorrect assumptions” and insisted that the United States would continue to manage the help “more efficiently,” according to the AFP news agency.

Bush and Obama transmitted their condemnation messages into a videoconference they organized with Bono, the singer of the U2 band, for thousands of members of the USAID community.

Bush, co -religionist of the Trump Republican Party, focused on the impact of cuts to a program against AIDS and HIV initiated by his government and which is later attributed to having saved 25 million lives.

“They have demonstrated the great strength of the United States with their work, and that is due to their good heart,” Bush told USAID workers in a recorded statement, according to US media.

“Is it of our national interest that 25 million people who would have died now live? I think so and you too,” he added.

Obama, a member of the opposition Democratic party, claimed the work done by USAID employees.

“Dismantling Usaid is a farce and a tragedy, because it is one of the most important tasks that are carried out in the world,” Obama said.

Bono, veteran defender of humanitarian aid, spoke about the millions of people who, according to him, could die from the cuts.

“They called them criminals, when they were the best of us,” attendees told videoconference.

Founded in 1961, USAID used some 10,000 people, two thirds of whom they worked abroad, according to the Congress Research Service.

The controversial cuts began at the beginning of Trump's second mandate, when the billionaire and presidential exassor Elon Musk received the commission to reduce the federal staff.

The measure was widely condemned by humanitarian organizations around the world.

Among the programs that were affected were the efforts to provide prostheses to the wounded soldiers in Ukraine, the cleaning of land mines in several countries and the containment of the propagation of Ebola in Africa.

On Wednesday morning, the agency's website showed a message that indicated that all personnel hired directly by USAID worldwide had been put on administrative license as of February 23.

The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, previously declared that the remaining 1,000 programs after the cuts would be administered by his department.

“This era of inefficiency, authorized by the Government, has officially reached its end,” he added on Tuesday.

“Under the Trump Administration, we will finally have a foreign financing mission in the United States that prioritizes our national interests,” he wrote in a publication in replacement.

Trump reiterated his desire that spending abroad be closely aligned with his “United States first” approach.

USAID was considered an integral part of the global aid system. After the announcement of Trump's cuts, other countries, such as the United Kingdom, France and Germany, followed the example with their own reductions.

Last month, the United Nations agencies said they faced “the deepest financing cuts ever suffered by the international humanitarian sector.”

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