Forced leaves start for thousands at USAID under a Trump plan to gut the foreign aid agency
WASHINGTON — Forced leaves began in Washington and worldwide Friday for most employees of the U.S. Agency for International Development, as federal workers associations turned to the courts to try to roll back Trump administration orders that have dismantled most of the agency and U.S.- funded aid programs around the world.
Almost all USAID workers across the globe placed on leave as Trump moves to gut agency
Thousands of USAID employees, except for essential personnel, were notified they will be placed on administrative leave at the end of Friday.
Trump Administration Sued by Government Workers Over Slashing of USAID
The largest U.S. government worker union and an association of foreign service workers sued the Trump administration on Thursday in an effort to reverse its aggressive dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Republicans quiet as Trump and Musk move to gut some federal agencies
President Donald Trump’s administration this week launched one of its most brazen challenges yet to Congress’s authority. Lawmakers offered little pushback.
Government workers sue to stop Trump from dismantling USAID
The suit says the administration's actions are costing thousands of jobs, threatening national security interests and causing a humanitarian catastrophe.
USAID Workers Scramble for Answers After Trump Pulls Almost All of Them off the Job Worldwide
U.S. aid staffers worldwide are scrambling for answers and starting to pack up households or pull their children from school
Unions sue Trump administration over USAID agency cuts
The lawsuit is the first seeking to block the Trump administration's overhaul of the US Agency for International Development.
USAID set to be hacked from 14,000 workers to just 294 as Trump team shreds humanitarian agency: report
An internal chart of the employee breakdown shared by a former USAID global health director also notes that only 21 people ...
Trump’s push to shut down USAID shows how international development is all about strategic interests
The dismantling of USAID underscores a larger trend of strategic and ideological considerations that have always influenced ...
What is USAID and what does it do? The agency Musk, Trump aim to shut down, explained
Elon Musk said he is feeding USAID thorugh the wood chipper. The federal agency provides disaster relief across the world and ...
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Red states pursue their own DOGE-style reforms
Numerous Republican-led states are seeking to implement measures to slash the size and cost of state governments in an effort ...
First on CNN: Republican and Democratic former USAID leaders speak out against Trump’s attempts to dismantle agency
Five former leaders of the US Agency for International Development from across Republican and Democratic administrations have ...
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Musk says he, Trump in process of closing US Agency for International Development
Billionaire Entrepreneur Elon Musk, now in charge of the Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency, said ...
Former USAID official on possible agency merger, funding cutbacks: "It's not an overhaul. It's a destruction"
Dr. Atul Gawande said denigrating the agency is "dangerous for the country" and shuttering its programs could make Americans ...
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Civil Society Organizations in Ethiopia Scramble for New Finance Sources As 'Abrupt' USAID Funding Freeze Threatens Jobs, Humanitarian Operations
Following the United States Agency for International Development's (USAID) "abrupt" cessation of financial aid and assistance, the Ethiopian Civil Society Organizations Council called on the ...
Rubio Says He Now Runs Aid Agency, as Staff Are Blocked From Systems
Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, told reporters he had taken over the U.S. Agency for International Development and would ...
Ex-USAID Head Says America Will 'Pay The Price' From Musk, Trump Attacking Agency
Andrew Natsios, a Republican who served under George W. Bush, knocked the pair for pushing "a lot of garbage" in their ...
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Tom Fitton: USAID has become a 'plaything’ for the radical left's global agenda
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton says the far-left treats the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) ...