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Dr. Sohan Dasgupta, appointed early this year as a political head Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), Said Fox News Digital, he appears after a four-month sprint, declaring his mission to preserve and review the American agency as a strategic external policy tool as “performed”.
Made a congress 2004 The MCC provides five-year infrastructure and energy compact for the development of nations that meet strict management standards. Unlike traditional assistance, its investments are structured to drove economic growth and open markets for American companies strongly.
Since its creation under the President of George V. Bush, MCC is often grouped with other American assistance programs.
Career staff has long stressed development goals such as poverty, education and infrastructure, but unlike USAID, MCC was established as a corporate body with a fiduciary longer to ensure efficiency.
Dr. Sohan Dasgupta, the Political Head of the Corporation Milenium Challenge, met with Senegales officers to discuss MCC programs. (Kurourtesi of Dr. Sohan Passi)
The White House, which speaks of the background for a digital fox, claimed that the translation agency also presented it as help, not investments before President Donald Trump took the function.
Dasgupta pushed staff to adopt a different lens, pressing them to evaluate projects based on the investment of the United States, the degree of strategic settlement with partner countries and whether MCC could be used by MCC compact to strengthen us leverage in negotiations.
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Report this spring He argued that the MCC was not a traditional assistance agency, but “investment” tool is uniquely suitable for “American first” agenda.
The authors warned that it will surrender to the “diplomatic-economic victory”, and noticed the selection of Trump partners, strategically elected that they are strategically elected to be strategically elected to be strategically chosen.
“The United States and the world are safer, stronger and more prosperity with the MCC model than without it,” the report concluded.
Dr. Dasgupta leaves the Corporation of the Millennium Challenges after a shorter acquisition in the Agency as an appointment under the President Trum. (Issouf Sanogo / AFP via Getty Images)
The current portfolio of MCCs under Trump includes some of its largest compact compact: $ 500 million in Sierra Leone, which is compact in Sierra Leone, which spreads an electricity approach and a program of 202 million in Kosovo focused on the battery storage online. Other investments include $ 536 million in the Bar Coast, $ 537 million in Mozambique and water compact in Mongolia.
Dasgupta said that Fox News Digital was that his role was to press MCC staff to think in terms of American national security and economic benefits. “Reforming the MCC into a vital national security and external policy” It was as described by the “mission achieved” moment.
E-mail 9 E-mail from Bela House in the MCC staff, Failed Fox News Digital, showing DasGupta set for schedule C High Advisor “Assuming that the policy is to the Agency.”
The report on the Fiscal Year of the MCC 2026. The report of the candidate, published this month, states Kosovo, Nepal, Sierra Leone, ASO, Mongolia, Solomon’s Islands, Fiji and Tong among its bodies.
Dr. Sohan Dasgupta, Political Head of Corporation Milenium Challenge, met with Nepal Ambassador at the MCC headquarters in Washington, DC (Kurourtesi of Dr. Sohan Passi)
“The service has many forms. My goal was to perform certain projects and missions, and then to make the way to others,” Dasgupta said.
He added: “Critical minerals and rare elements of the country are a vital part of American forces … MCC really understood it.”
The Kosovo Ambassador in the United States, Ilir Dugli, praised Dasgupta Raisiveness. “We soon collaborated after arriving at MCC … I respect him exceptionally because of the way he managed his portfolio and how he was a professional,” Dugli said Dugli said Dugal Digital.
On energy security, Dugli said, “Kosovo fully aligns with American external policy … Batteries are extremely important, especially after last year’s Iber-Lepenc Canal. Compact investments in energy security and economic resistance to our country.”
Dasgupta departure also comes while Trump Administration passes reduced traditional American programs of foreign aid and seek to solve American Global Engagement Under his “US first” policy.
Former employees in USAID leave the seat building in Washington, DC on Thursday, 27. February 2025. years. The dismissals come after the document analysis of the organization and recommendations for mass layoffs. (Leigh Green for Fox News Digital)
While the agencies like USAID are faced by reducing and restructuring, Dasgupta claims that the MCC is preserved as a thinner, a tool that is guided by investment in accordance with the emphasis on administration at strategic contracts and competition with China.
Analysts estimate China control about 70% of the global rare mining mining and almost 90% of the processing capacity, according to the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies.
Between 2023 and 2025. Years Imposed China Export restrictions on strategic minerals, according to CSIS. Dasgupta claims that the work of the MCC in allied nations can help diversify supplies and strengthens resilience chains, although the MCC did not describe critical minerals as a formal focus of its work.
“We want independence in every sense of the word … These are the premises and predications of American forces,” Dasgupta said.
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“Fast quickly” like the Kosovo Battery and Nepalide Project, Dasgupta said, show that American aid can improve prosperity abroad during the reconciliation of security at home.
With its departure, the MCC continues compact in a dozen countries around the world.
The MCC did not immediately answer the request of Fox News Digital for comment.
