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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
Devex6d
Most USAID staff cut from agency, marking end of world’s largest donor
White screen, black text, USAID logo, and a message that states nearly all USAID direct hires will be placed on administrative leave on Friday, Feb. 7. “All USAID direct hire personnel will be ...
Marketplace4d
Protesters rally in support of USAID as Trump administration shuts it down
As of Friday, the second Trump administration is putting almost all employees of the United States Agency for International Development, or USAID, on leave. Opponents of the move held a rally on ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
Business Insider5d
USAID is on Trump and Musk's cost-cutting list. Here's where the foreign aid agency spends its money.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio was named USAID's acting director on Monday and has advocated for foreign assistance agencies to be more transparent about how aid is being implemented. Rubio said ...
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 ...
New York Post6d
USAID direct hires put on leave worldwide — except those deemed essential
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) announced Tuesday that it will place all non-essential direct-hire staffers around the world on leave as the Trump administration cracks down on ...