AND Trump administration It eliminates over a thousand positions of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), and at the same time setting up most of the remaining members of the staff administration globally, just before midnight on Sunday.
Associated Press reported that he learned from Trump’s administration that 1,600 posts would be eliminated after an overview of notices sent to USAID workers.
“From 23:59 EST EST on Sunday, February 2, 2025, all staff of the direct rental of USAIDs, with the exception of a particular staff responsible for critical functions, fundamental leadership and/or specially specific programs, will be placed on administrative leave globally, “The notifications read.
Trump’s administration intends to leave less than 300 employees to work, of the current 8,000 performers and direct employees.
USAID workers send a message to Trump on the boxes while leaving the office last time
Retired International Development Agency Julie Hanson Swanson, left, joined the supporters of the USAID worker outside the Office of the Humanitarian Affairs Office of USAID Washington on Friday, February 21, 2025. (Manuel Balce Cenet)
Less than 300 remaining staff, together with an unknown number of 5,000 locally engaged international employees abroad, will launch several rescue programs for life that the administration said she intends to keep in place.
The released USAID employees left their offices in Washington, DC, last time on Friday, with some worn boxes cut messages that looked aimed at Trump, which reduced the agency’s workforce.
“We leave the world,” read one message on a box containing things pulled out by a person who relied on while exiting the USAIid office for humanitarian affairs.
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The recently discharged American International Development Agency (USAID) wore a message boxes while leaving the job, and former employees and supporters in USAID were applauded during the Senzoffs outside the USAIDs office, Washington, DC, USA, February 21, 2025. (Reuters/Brian Snyder)
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. “
Thousands of employees were informed a few weeks ago about the release of the waiting, and on Friday, US District Judge Carl Nichols filed a temporary limit order issued at the beginning of the lawsuit filed by the unions of government employees seeking to stop at mass release. After raising a temporary restraint order, Nichols refused to issue a long -term order to hold employees in their workplaces.
Trump moved to the agency after imposing a break of 90 days after a foreign assistance. He also appointed state secretaries Marco Rubio as an acting director of the USAID.
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The worker removes the US Agency for International Development Sign at their headquarters on February 7, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)
The agency came under the fire by the Government Efficiency Department 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.
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A few more examples Set-ups were discovered on USAID, including more than $ 900,000 in a “terrorist charity with a headquarters” called Bayader Association for Enronement and Development and a $ 1.5 million program that would be planned to “improve diversity, equality and equality and involvement in jobs and business communities and business communities. “
Michael Dorgan and Associated Press Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
