USAID Workers Pack Up Desks As Supporters Cheer Their Service
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President Donald Trump and his billionaire adviser Elon Musk laid off 1,600 USAID workers and put 4,080 of them on leave.
U.S. Agency for International Development workers packing up their belongings were greeted by an outpouring of support Thursday as protesters demonstrated outside the agency’s Washington headquarters.
President Donald Trump’s administration, acting in coordination with Trump’s billionaire adviser Elon Musk, has laid off 1,600 USAID workers and put 4,080 on leave, all of whom contributed to the agency’s goal of providing humanitarian assistance in more than 120 countries. Trump also enacted a 90-day pause on foreign aid after his administration slashed over 90% of the agency’s foreign aid awards.
Just a sliver of USAID workers will remain actively working as Trump, Musk and the administration work to essentially restructure the U.S. government.
Impacted USAID workers could only obtain their belongings from the agency’s headquarters at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C., during specific time slots on Thursday and Friday, according to the USAID website.
“The manner in which this is being done is the exact opposite of USAID’s mission,” former USAID Administrator Samantha Power said, according to NPR. “USAID’s mission is about elevating human dignity, and this is about trampling it at every turn.”
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