US USAID USAID (USAID) President Donald Trumpwhich reduces the agency’s workforce.
Thousands of staff members have been informed weeks ago of their current layoffs, while a federal judge paved the way to the Trump administration to follow mass layoffs because it aims to eliminate waste at long of the federal bureaucracy.
“We abandon the world,” read a message on a box transported by a smiling staff while leaving the office of the USAID humanitarian affairs office.
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Another box of smiling staff had a more optimistic tone, with his message reading: “You can get the humanitarian workers out Usaid But you cannot withdraw humanity from humanitarian workers. “”
The staff of the American Agency for International Development (USAID) recently dismissed with a message when they leave work and are applauded by former employees and supporters of USAID when sending outside USAID offices in Washington, DC, February 21, 2025. (Reuters / Brian Snyder)
The staff members were welcomed outside the offices by a small group of supporters with a bondage and former USAID workers who wore panels by reading “We love Usaid” and “thank you for your service, USAID “.
Other workers have been seen leaving offices in tears.
The Trump administration plans to empty the agency and intends to leave less than 300 employees on work on the 8,000 hires and current direct entrepreneurs.
They, with an unknown number of 5,000 members of international staff hired locally abroad, would direct the few rescue programs which, according to the administration, intend to continue for the moment.
USAID recently dismissed employees leave the USAID offices in Washington, DC, on February 21, 2025. (Reuters / Brian Snyder)
USAID was particularly critical under the Ministry of Government Effectiveness (DOGE) led by Elon Musk for expenses of alleged waste.
For example, senator Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, president of the Senate Doge Caucus, recently published a list Projects and programs, she says that USAID has helped finance over the years, including $ 20 million to produce Street Show Sesame in Iraq.
Several other examples Doubling expenses have been discovered in the USAID, including more than $ 900,000 to a “terrorist charity based on Gaza” called Bayader Association for Environment and Development and a program of 1.5 million dollars planned to “advance the diversity, equity,, and inclusion in workplaces and business communities in Serbia. “”
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Trump moved to emptying them the agency after imposing a 90 -day break with foreign aid. He also appointed the Secretary of State Marco Rubio As an acting director of the USAID.
Government employee unions had continued to arrest mass layoffs, but US district judge Carl Nichols raised a temporary ban on Friday that he had made at the start of the case and refused to make an order In the longer term while keeping employees in their posts.
Tears employees leave USAID in Washington, DC (Reuters / Brian Snyder)
Nichols, who was appointed by President Trump in his first mandate, also wrote that because the affected employees had not followed an administrative litigation process, he probably did not have competence to hear the case of unions or Consider their wider arguments that the administration is violating the American Constitution by closing an agency created and funded by the Congress.
The judge said the question was jurisdictional, that the courts of federal district should not be involved at this stage and that the case should be processed administratively under federal employment laws.
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“In short, because the court probably does not have jurisdiction on complaints from the complainants, they did not establish a probability of success on the merits”, the judge‘S Direction said, in part.
“The court concludes that the applicants have not demonstrated that them or their members will undergo irreparable injuries in the absence of an injunction; that their complaints will be likely to succeed on the merits; or that the balance of the difficulties or the public interest strongly promotes an injunction. “
US US Retired US Agency for International Development Workers Julie Hanson Swanson, on the left, joins workers from USAID workers outside the USAID Humanitarian Affairs Office in Washington, the Friday February 21, 2025. (Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Unions can now go to the Washington Federal Court of Appeal, DC, so that TRO is set up, or perhaps a preliminary injunction.
Bill Mears de Fox News, Andrew Mark Miller, Aubrie Spady, Deirdre Heavey, Morgan Phillips and Emma Colton as well as Reuters contributed to this report.
