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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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All staff of the United States Agency for International Development (Usaid) will be placed on administrative leave starting Friday, including officials deployed abroad, according to a document published by the entity on its website on Tuesday night. The decision was made after tycoon Elon Musk, the richest man in the world and controversial adviser to President Donald Trump who has the task of reducing government spending, revealed on Monday tha…

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Stars and Stripes broke the news in Washington, United States on Tuesday, February 4, 2025.
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