The Trump administration has drastically reduced the operation of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), placing thousands of staff on furlough and halting vital programs. The move has sparked outrage from employees and critics who argue it undermines the agency's mission and jeopardizes global humanitarian efforts.
Flowers and a sign are placed outside the headquarters of the US Agency for International Development, or USAID Photograph: Jose Luis Magana/AP, sided with two federal employee associations in agreeing to a pause in plans to put the workers on paid leave as of midnight on Friday.
With all but several hundred staff forced out and funding stopped, the agency has “ceased to exist”, one official on the call said., who is running a budget-cutting Department of Government Efficiency, have targeted USAID hardest so far in an unprecedented challenge of the federal government and many of its programmes.
The USAID officials and staff spoke on condition of anonymity due to a Trump administration order barring them from talking publicly. Within the State Department itself, employees fear substantial staff reductions following the deadline for the Trump administration’s offer of financial incentives for federal workers to resign, according to officials who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal. A judge temporarily blocked that offer and set a hearing on Monday.
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