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USAID announces nearly all direct hires will be placed on administrative leave

Elon Musk, a billionaire ally of President Trump and critic of USAID, has announced that nearly all direct hires at the agency will be placed on administrative leave.
USAID has a budget of over $40 billion and works to end poverty and promote democracy in around 120 countries, but Musk has called it a 'viper's nest of radical-left Marxists.'
The move is part of Trump and Musk's drive to shrink the US government, and the USAID staff union is preparing legal action to counter or halt it.

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Rubio says it's 'not our intention' to uproot USAID workers abroad

Photo by MARK SCHIEFELBEIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images Secretary of State Marco Rubio told embassy officials in Guatemala this week that it was “not our intention” to uproot families deployed overseas with USAID, despite the agency issuing a 30-day mandate for their return. “I know it’s hard to ask for patience. I know it’s hard to ask for trust,” Rubio said, according to a partial transcript of his meet-and-greet with embassy staff that was obtai…

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USAID Announces Global Administrative Leave for All Direct Hire Personnel

USAID Website: “On Friday, February 7, 2025, at 11:59 pm (EST) all USAID direct hire personnel will be placed on administrative leave globally”

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The National Pulse

President Trump Orders Nearly All USAID Staff on Leave.

President Donald J. Trump will order nearly all federal employees with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) on administrative leave this Friday. The move comes as the international aid agency faces increasing scrutiny over its disbursement of taxpayer dollars and allegations it funds nongovernmental organizations and other groups actively undermining American interests abroad.According to a notice on the USAID website, the measu…

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Democracy Now!

Trump Places 10,000 USAID Workers on Leave and Orders Them to Return to U.S.

President Trump has ordered nearly the entire staff of the U.S. Agency for International Development to be placed on administrative leave beginning on Friday, and ordered thousands of personnel working overseas to return to the U.S. The order impacts some 10,000 USAID workers around the world. Democratic lawmakers have called it an illegal move to shutter an aid agency that was created through an act of Congress.

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State Department and DOGE Tell USAID Direct Hires They Are on Administrative Leave Starting Friday - 🔔 The Liberty Daily

(Globalist Elite Cabal)—The biggest blow against the Deep State is taking form this week as all employees of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) received a memo Tuesday night informing them they are being put on administrative leave at the end of the week. The memo came from Pete Marocco, a senior State Department official tapped by Secretary of State Marco Rubio to lead USAID following the removal of executives by the…

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