Dozens of USAID employees are looking to leave the agency after Congress failed to provide additional funding for their programs, according to three people familiar with the matter
Dozens of USAID employees — working to get Covid-19 vaccines in arms and strengthen health systems around the world — are looking to leave the agency after Congress failed to provide additional funding for their programs, according to three people familiar with the matter.
The USAID Covid-19 Task Force — about 200 strong at its inception in 2020 but with fewer now — held a meeting last week to talk about the effect of Congress not allocating money for the agency’s global Covid efforts. The executive director of the task force, Jeremy Konyndyk, told team members he would understand if they were looking for other jobs — and would write letters of recommendation if needed, according to one of the people who was on the call.
Now, programming focused on vaccine uptake seems to be coming to a close at a time when rising caseloads are being seen amid the BA.2 subvariant of Omicron — and as even more subvariants are emerging globally. Last week, after news broke that Congress would cut $5 billion for global pandemic responses from the Covid-19 supplemental funding package, USAID employees said they began scrambling to find new jobs., many were hired as Schedule A employees — with the understanding the positions would end when the work was done or when funding ran out.
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