this Trump administration Thousands of positions are being canceled in the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), while most of the remaining staff are also putting off global leave by midnight on Sunday.
The Associated Press report said it will learn from the Trump administration that 1,600 positions will be eliminated after reviewing the notification sent to U.S. Agency workers.
“As of Sunday, February 23, 2025, all U.S.A.I.D. directly hired personnel (except designated personnel, core leaders and/or specially designated programs that are designated to be responsible for mission-related tasks functions, core leaders and/or specially designated programs Outside, global,” notice reads.
The Trump administration intends to leave less than 300 employees of its current 8,000 contractors and directly hired jobs.
USAID workers sent a message to Trump on the box the last time they left the office
Retired U.S. Agency for International Development and Workers Julie Hanson Swanson leaves with USAID’s U.S. Agency for International Development’s Humanitarian Affairs in Washington Supporter, Friday, February 21, 2025. (Manuel Balce Ceneta)
The remaining less than 300 employees, as well as unknowns among 5,000 locally employed international workers abroad, will carry out a handful of life-saving plans, and the government says it intends to keep it in place for the time being.
The fired U.S. Agency for International Development staff left their Washington, D.C. offices for the last time Friday, with some carrying boxes sprinkled with news that appeared to be targeting Trump, who is cutting the agency’s workforce.
“We gave up on the world,” a message from a box was read on a box containing a grinning employee who was laughing as he walked out of the U.S. International Development Office of Humanitarian Affairs.
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Recently fired the United States International Development Agency (USAID) employee with information when leaving work and on February 21, 2025 at a USAID outside of the United States International Development Agency in Washington, DC, USA External support issued by an external USAID. (Reuters/Brian Snyder)
Another smiling employee box had a more optimistic tone, and her message was read: “You can bring humanitarians out USAID But you can’t bring humanity out of humanitarians. ”
Thousands of staff members had been told about their pending firing a few weeks ago, U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols canceled his lawsuit filed in a government employee union Temporary restriction orders require the suspension of large-scale layoffs. After the temporary restraining order was lifted, Nichols refused to issue a long-term order, which would allow employees to take positions.
Trump has moved out of the agency after a 90-day pause to foreign aid. He also appointed Secretary of State Marco Rubio As acting director of the United States Agency for International Development.
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A worker canceled the international development logo of the U.S. International Development Agency in Washington, DC on February 7, 2025. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)
The agency has been criticized by the Ministry of Efficiency (DOGE) led by Elon Musk for alleged waste of spending.
For example, Senator Joni Ernst A list has been published In her said the projects and programs that the United Nations International Development helped fund over the years include a $20 million Sesame Street exhibition in Iraq.
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There are several more examples USAID has found suspicious spending, including $900,000 for a “Gaza-based terrorist charity” called Bayader Environmental and Development Association, and a $1.5 million program that plans to “increase diversity Sex, fairness and integration into Serbia’s workplaces and business communities.”
Michael Dorgan of Fox News Digital and the Associated Press contributed to the report.
