Billionaire Elon Musk’s department of government efficiency has led an effort to gut the US Agency
On Friday, a federal judge cleared the way for the Trump administration to put thousands of USAid workers on leave. Photograph: Haiyun Jiang/New York Timesdepartment of government efficiency has led an effort to gut the US Agency for International Development, the main delivery mechanism for American foreign assistance and a critical tool of US “soft power” for winning influence abroad.
On Friday, a federal judge cleared the way for the Trump administration to put thousands of USAid workers on leave, a setback for government employee unions that are suing over what they have called an effort to dismantle it. Trump ordered a 90-day pause on foreign aid shortly after taking office on January 20th, halting funding for everything from programmes that fight starvation and deadly diseases to providing shelters for millions of displaced people across the globe.
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