The Daily Star9d
USAID funding suspension
After the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, and JICA, USAID remains the fourth-largest development partner in Bangladesh, implementing over 100 projects in sectors such as health, education ...
USA Today5d
Trump and Musk should gut USAID. America needs to fix our own house first. | Opinion
About 10,000 USAID employees, excluding essential personnel, were notified Tuesday that they will be placed on administrative leave at the end of Friday. So continues Trump's sledgehammer method ...
CBS News2d
Judge blocks Trump administration from placing 2,200 USAID employees on leave
Washington — A federal judge on Friday prevented the Trump administration from placing 2,200 employees of the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, on administrative leave ...
NBC News4d
USAID to be reduced to about 290 foreign service officers and civil servants
Thousands of USAID employees learned they would be placed on administrative leave starting at 11:59 p.m. Friday through a message posted on USAID.gov this week. USAID personnel overseas were ...
The Daily Star8d
The dangerous consequences of USAID fund freeze
After the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, and JICA, USAID remains the fourth-largest development partner in Bangladesh, implementing over 100 projects in sectors such as health, education ...
The Hill4d
Trump administration slashing USAID workforce to fewer than 300 employees: Reports
The government’s foremost foreign aid agency is being gutted. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) workforce is being slashed from more than 10,000 employees to fewer than 300 ...
NBC News6d
USAID announces nearly all direct hires will be placed on administrative leave
The U.S. Agency for International Development announced Tuesday night that almost all direct hires around the world will be placed on administrative leave this week. The move was announced on the ...
USA Today4d
Almost all USAID workers across the globe placed on leave as Trump moves to gut agency
A State Department notice to USAID employees ‒ two-thirds of whom work overseas across 60 countries ‒ said all USAID "direct hire personnel" across the world will be placed on administrative ...
CBS News4d
USAID to put nearly all staff on leave Friday; overseas missions shuttering
Washington — Nearly all staff for the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, will be placed on leave Friday night, the agency announced on its website Tuesday night. Earlier in the ...
The Hill3d
If USAID ends, American diplomacy will be the biggest loser
President Trump’s characterizations of the U.S. Agency for International Development and Elon Musk’s efforts to abolish it have resurrected painful memories. Hearing a president say that the ...
Business Insider3d
The USAID shutdown could make China more powerful. Beijing is already pouring billions into countries around the world.
The abrupt firing of most staff at the US Agency for International Development — a process the White House put into motion this week — is likely to benefit China on the world stage. "The ...
MSNBC6d
Elon Musk calls USAID ‘a criminal organization.’ Here’s the truth.
Then, the purge started. Dozens of USAID’s top leaders were placed on immediate leave. Hundreds of support staff were let go, and those remaining were told not only to stop funding development ...