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Dr. Suhan Dasjopta, who was appointed earlier this year as a political president Millennium Challenge Company (MCC), Fox News Digital told that he was stepped down after a four -month race, declaring his mission to maintain the US agency and re -put it as a strategic foreign policy tool.

Created by Congress In 2004, MCC provides five -year infrastructure and energy pressure on developing countries that meet strict governance standards. Unlike traditional aid, its investments are organized to push long -term economic growth and open markets for American companies.

Since its establishment during the era of President George W. Bush, MCC has been often assembled with other American assistance programs.

Job employees have long emphasized development targets such as poverty reduction, education and infrastructure, but unlike the United States Agency for International Development, MCC was created as an institutional body with a credit duty to ensure effectiveness.

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A White House official, who is talking about the background of Fox News Digital, said that the agency has often provided itself as aid instead of investing before President Donald Trump He takes office.

DASUPTA prompted the employees to adopt a different lens, and press it to evaluate projects based on the return on investment in the United States, the degree of strategic compatibility with partner countries, and whether MCC pressures can be used Enhancing us the leverage In negotiations.

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) This spring report He argued that MCC is not a traditional assistance agency but it is a uniquely suitable “investment” tool for the “America first” business schedule.

The authors warned against its closure that would deliver China “diplomatic and economic victories” while they left half -projects built abroad, and noticed partner choices during the Trump era, from Nepal to Cote Davir to the Pacific Islands, strategically chosen to counter the Chinese influence.

The report concluded that “the United States and the world are safer, stronger and more prosperous with the MCC model without it.”

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The current MCC wallet at Trump includes some of its largest components ever: a $ 500 million deal in Nepal financing about 200 miles of transportation lines, $ 480 million compressed in Sierra Leone to expand access to electricity and a $ 202 million program in Kosovo focusing on a battery over the scale of networks. Other investments include $ 536 million in Cote d’Ivoire, $ 537 million in Mozambique and compressed water in Mongolia.

He told Dasgupta Fox News Digital that his role is to press MCC employees to think in terms of American national security and economic benefits. “MCC reform in national origins and external political assets” was how he described the moment of “completed mission”.

An email on May 9 from the White House to MCC, which was obtained by Fox News Digital, DASUPTA, was appointed as a senior Table C, “on the assumption of the agency’s political leadership.

The Country Country report for the 2026 fiscal year, which was released this month this month, Kosovo, Nepal, Sierra Leone, Cote d’Ivoire, Mozambique, Mongolia, Suleiman Islands, Fiji and Tonga between the qualified partner countries.

“The service has many models. My goal was to implement certain projects and missions, and then give way to others.”

He added in China: “Critical minerals and rare ground elements are a vital part of the American power … MCC really understood it,” he added in China.

Cosovo’s ambassador to the United States, Eller Doghouli, praised the response of Dasopta. “We worked closely after a short period of his arrival in MCC … I respect him greatly on the way you deal with his wallet and how professional.”

With regard to energy security, Doghouli said: “Kosovo is fully compatible with US foreign policy … The batteries are very important, especially after a terrorist attack last year on Iber-Lepenc. The integrated is the most important investment in energy security in our country and its economic flexibility.”

The departure of Dasgupta also comes as the Trump administration follows discounts for traditional American foreign aid programs and seeks to reformulate America’s global participation Under the “first America” ​​policy.

While agencies such as the American Agency for International Development have faced discounts and restructuring, DASGUPTA argues that MCC has been preserved as a smaller tool, dependent on investment that corresponds to the management focus on strategic deals and competing with China.

Analysts estimate that China controls about 70 % of the rare global land mining and about 90 % of the processing capacity, according to the Oxford Institute of Energy Studies.

Between 2023 and 2025, China imposed Export restrictions on strategic metals, according to CSIS. DASUPTA argues that MCC’s work in allied countries can help diversify supply chains and enhance flexibility, although MCC has not publicly described critical metals as an official axis of its work.

“We want independence in every sense of the word … these are the buildings and the prediction of the American power,” said Dasopta.

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“Quick victories” such as the Kosovo batteries and power lines project in Nepal, Diaspta said how American aid can prosper abroad while enhancing security at home.

With his departure, MCC continues compressed in dozens of countries around the world.

MCC did not immediately respond to the Fox News Digital request for comment.