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All but handful of agency\u2019s personnel around world to be placed on paid leave, according to notice sent to workers<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Trump administration on Sunday said it was placing all but a handful of USAid personnel around the world on paid administrative leave and eliminating about 2,000 of those positions in the US, according to\u00a0a notice<\/a>\u00a0sent to agency workers and\u00a0posted online<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs of 11:59 p.m. EST on Sunday, February 23, 2025, all USAid<\/a> direct hire personnel, with the exception of designated personnel responsible for mission-critical functions, core leadership and\/or specially designated programs, will be placed on administrative leave globally,\u201d the notice said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cConcurrently\u201d, the notice added, the agency is \u201cbeginning to implement a Reduction-in-Force\u201d affecting about 2,000 USAid personnel in the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The White House did not immediately respond to request for comment.

Billionaire Elon Musk<\/a> has boasted that he is \u201cfeeding USAID into the wood chipper\u201d as his so-called \u201cdepartment of government efficiency\u201d has led an effort to gut the main delivery mechanism for American foreign assistance, a critical tool of US\u201csoft power\u201d for winning influence abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Friday, a federal judge cleared the way for the Trump administration<\/a> to put thousands of USAid workers on leave, a setback for government employee unions that are suing over what they have called an effort to dismantle it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The secretary of state, Marco Rubio, was appointed<\/a> acting USAid administrator by Donald Trump earlier this month. The unsigned notice came from \u201cthe office of the administrator\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two former senior USAid officials told Reuters that a majority of some 4,600 agency personnel, career US Civil Service and Foreign Service staffers, would be placed on administrative leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis administration and Secretary Rubio are shortsighted in cutting into the expertise and unique crisis response capacity of the US\u201d, said Marcia Wong, one of the former officials. \u201cWhen disease outbreaks occur, populations displaced, these USAid experts are on the ground and first deployed to help stabilize and provide aid?\u201d In\u00a0a post<\/a>\u00a0on Musk\u2019s social-media platform, Wong was even more blunt, calling the job cuts \u201ca shortsighted, high risk and frankly stupid act\u201d.

\u201cUnsigned notices like this are not self-implementing. They must be followed up by an individual personnel action or at least an approved leave slip, properly executed by someone with that authority\u201d, a second former official, who asked not to be further identified, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The US president ordered a 90-day pause on foreign aid shortly after taking office, halting funding for everything from programs that fight starvation and deadly diseases to providing shelters for millions of displaced people across the globe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, his press secretary and Musk have all tried to justify the cuts by pointing to\u00a0wildly mischaracterized<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0wholly invented<\/a>\u00a0spending on overseas aid projects.

The administration has approved exceptions to the freeze totaling $5.3 billion, mostly for security and counter-narcotics programs, according to a list of exemptions reviewed by Reuters that included limited humanitarian relief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

USAid programs received less than $100 million in exemptions, according to the list. That compares to roughly $40bn in USAid programs administered annually before the freeze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump\u2019s ally, the prime minister of Hungary, Viktor Orb\u00e1n, joined the campaign to smear USAid, posting<\/a> video on Musk\u2019s social media platform of a speech in which he attacked the agency in conspiratorial terms for supporting \u201cpseudo-civil organizations\u201d to promote democracy and human rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cUSAID was the heart of a robust financial and power machine. A monster created to crush, crumble and erode the freedom and independence of nations so that the liberal-globalist empire could thrive,\u201d Orban wrote. Trump, he added, \u201cdrove a stake through the heart of the empire\u201d.

Reprinted from The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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