The Trump administration claimed that it is removing nearly all employees of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) from their jobs and from the field globally, effectively ending a six-decade mission to support American security through eradicating epidemics, funding education, and combating starvation.
After returning political appointees from President Donald Trump’s first term and billionaire Elon Musk’s government-efficiency teams deemed much of the spending on programs abroad wasteful, the administration abruptly dismantled USAID by sending emails and posting a notice online.
Unless they are considered vital, direct hires of the agency abroad, many of whom have been frantically packing up residences in anticipation of the revelation, have 30 days to return home when the order goes into effect shortly before midnight on Friday. According to the notification, contractors who were not deemed essential would also be let go.
The plan was the most drastic of several ideas being examined to merge the agency into the State Department, and it had been rumoured for days. The partial closure of larger USAID outposts and the closure of smaller ones had been other possibility.
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