Fired workers of USAIDs send a message to Trump on the boxes while leaving the office last time
Fired employees of the United States for International Development (USAID) left their Washington, DC, the Last time on Friday, with some carried boxes cut messages that looked directed President Donald Trumpwhich reduces the workforce of the agency.
Thousands of employees were informed several weeks ago of their dismissals, while the federal judge on Friday cleaned the way that Trump’s administration follows with mass release because it aims to remove waste throughout the federal bureaucracy.
“We leave the world,” read one message on a box drawn by a smile of a smiley staff as she left usaid’s Humanitarian Affairs Office.
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Another box with a smiling person had more optimistic tone, and her message was: “You can take out humanitarians USAID But you cannot remove humanity from humanitarian. “
The recently discharged American International Development Agency (USAID) bears a message box while leaving the job, and former USAID employees and fans greeted the Sundoff outside the USAIDs office, Washington, DC, February 21, 2025. (Reuters/Brian Snyder)
The staff were welcomed outside the office by a small group of well-meaning supporters and former USAIDs workers who carried the signs of reading: “We love USAID” and “Thanks for the service, USAID.”
Other workers were seen leaving the Office in tears.
Trump’s administration plans to stifle the agency and intends to leave less than 300 employees at work of the current 8,000 direct employees and performers.
They, together with an unknown number 5000 locally engaged international employees abroad, would launch several life rescue programs for which the administration says he intends to continue for now.
Recently discharged USAID employees leave the USAIDs offices of Washington, DC, February 21, 2025. (Reuters/Brian Snyder)
USAID came for special criticism under the Department of the Efficiency of the Government under the guidance of Elon Musk for alleged wasteful spending.
For example, Senator Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, President of the Doge Senate, recently posted the list Projects and programs, which says USAID has helped financing over the years, including $ 20 million to produce Street Street Street in Iraq.
A few more examples The complex consumption was discovered on USAID, including more than $ 900,000 in a “terrorist charity with a headquarters” called Bayader Association for the Environment and Development and Program of $ 1.5 million for “Pre-Diversity, Capital,, and involvement in Serbia in workplaces and business communities. “
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Trump moved to the agency after imposing a break of 90 days after a foreign assistance. Also appointed State Secretary Marco Rubio as an acting director of the USAID.
The government’s employee unions sued to stop mass release, but US District Judge Carl Nichols raised a temporary limit order on Friday at the beginning of the case and refused to issue a long -term order by retaining employees in their workplaces.
Tear employees leave the USAID building in Washington, DC (Reuters/Brian Snyder)
Nichols, who was appointed by President Trump during his first term, also wrote that, since the affected employees did not go through the administrative dispute procedure, he was probably not competent to hearing a union case or consider their broader arguments that administration is a violation of the US Constitution by excluding the agency created and funded by Congress.
The judge said that the issue was competent, that federal district courts at this stage should not be involved and that this issue should be administered administrative under the Federal Employment Laws.
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“In short, because the court is likely to lack the jurisdiction of the prosecutor’s claims, they have not determined the likelihood of success in merit,” the judge‘It is from the judgment, partly.
“The court concludes that prosecutors have not shown that they or their members will suffer an irreparable injury without any prohibitions; that their claims are likely to succeed in the basis; or that the balance of difficulty or public interest is strongly favored by the prohibition.”
Retired International Development Agency Julie Hanson Swanson, to the left, is joined by the supporters of the USAID worker outside the USAid office for humanitarian issues in Washington on Friday, February 21, 2025. (Manuel Balce Cenet)
Unions can now go to Washington, DC, a federal appeal court for an urgent relief to return the three to their place or possibly a preliminary ban.
Fox News’ Bill Mears, Andrew Mark Miller, Aubrie Spady, Deirdre Heavey, Morgan Phillips and Emma Colton, as well as Reuters, have contributed to this report.
