AOL7d
Where the fight over USAID’s future stands
Unions representing federal employees took the fight to save the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to the courts after Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE ...
USA Today11d
What is USAID and what does it do? The agency Musk, Trump aim to shut down, explained
Elon Musk, head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) under President Donald Trump's administration, has set his sights on dismantling the federal agency USAID. Following a week of ...
Reuters8d
Dismantling of USAID leaves no staff to process aid waivers, sources say
Feb 7 (Reuters) - The dismantling of USAID by the Trump administration means there are no staff to process waivers submitted by food and other aid organizations hoping to resume operations under ...
USA Today9d
Almost all USAID workers across the globe placed on leave as Trump moves to gut agency
A State Department notice to USAID employees ‒ two-thirds of whom work overseas across 60 countries ‒ said all USAID "direct hire personnel" across the world will be placed on administrative ...
New York Post8d
Trump admin slashes USAID’s 10,000-people workforce to less than 300: reports
The massive reduction, reported by the New York Times and Reuters, comes one day after USAID announced on its website that it would recall all foreign-based personnel and place all staffers except ...
UPI9d
USAID announces all 'direct hire' workers globally will be placed on leave by Friday
Advertisement "On Friday, Feb. 7, 2025, at 11:59 p.m. EST all USAID direct hire personnel will be placed on administrative leave globally, with the exception of designated personnel responsible ...
CBS News11d
USAID to be merged into State Department, 3 U.S. officials say
USAID, the United States Agency for International Development, will be merged into the State Department with significant cuts in the workforce, but it will remain a humanitarian aid entity, three ...
CNN10d
What USAID does, and why Trump and Musk want to get rid of it
Then-President John F. Kennedy established the US Agency for International Development, known as USAID, during the Cold War. In the decades since, Republicans and Democrats have fought over the ...
AOL9d
USAID employees around the world will be placed on leave Friday and ordered to return to US
As of 11:59 p.m. ET Friday, “all USAID direct hire personnel will be placed on administrative leave globally, with the exception of designated personnel responsible for mission-critical ...
Snopes.com9d
USAID paid $44K to Politico, not over $8M as White House claimed. It was for subscriptions
In early February 2025, a false rumor circulated online, claiming the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) — a government agency targeted for cuts or dismantling in the early weeks ...
New York Post10d
USAID was rotten, but Trump needs the ‘soft power’ of foreign aid done right
In an ideal world, USAID strengthens US influence through soft power. At just over $40 billion, USAID’s annual budget is a small fraction of the Department of Defense’s annual allocation of ...