The Trump administration told Congress on Friday it would cut nearly all remaining jobs at the U.S. Agency for International Development and shut the agency. It has proven to be a slush fund for leftist Democrats.
In an internal memo, USAID staff was told that all positions not required by law would be eliminated in July and September.
The State Department will transfer certain functions to the agency while discontinuing others that do not align with the Trump administration’s priorities.
Sec. Rubio emphasized that US foreign assistance programs will now be refocused to benefit the nation and its citizens directly.
“We are continuing essential lifesaving programs and making strategic investments that strengthen our partners and our own country. This is yet another promise made and delivered to the American people,” he added.
DOGE Employee Takes Over
On March 20, Jeremy Lewin, a Department of Government Efficiency employee, took over running the day-to-day operations at USAID from Pete Marocco.
In an email to staff Friday, he said terminations would go into effect on July 1 or Sept. 2. Although workers may be asked to work in some capacity, the email obtained by NPR said they were ordered to leave “the front office” by 1 p.m. Friday without a reason given.
“As you can imagine, there will be lots of work to migrate operations and responsibility to the State Department responsibly,” Lewin wrote in the email to staff.
He noted that overseas staff “will be offered safe and fully compensated return travel.”
Rubio said the State Department also plans to ” discontinue the remaining USAID functions that do not align with Administration priorities.”
“Unfortunately, USAID strayed from its original mission long ago,” he said. “As a result, the gains were too few and the costs were too high.”
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Fire quickly like this. Get them out of the buildings, take their ID cards, occupy their offices with other functions, and so on.
It is great that immigration control will move in.
Let’s see what happens is there is trouble on Monday, with people entering the building and causing trouble. If the FBI shows up to stop that, as it did at another facility a week ago, that is a second signal. It is the job of the marshals, run by Bondi, to handle such situations. The signal again would be that the administration is bypassing Bondi when possible, because the RINO is unwilling to do the dirty work.
If Bondi would arrest the ICE raid leakers, she would have some credibility. Her inaction is a clear signal. It is reminiscent of Sessions dropping charges against the IRS, and Barr dropping charges against Comey and McCabe. Pay no attention to the PR events on TV. Sessions and Barr also held such events. Pay attention to what Bondi is not doing.
They say to root out corruption look for who benefit the most. It’s like a game of Wacka Mole. See which politicians stick their head up to protest the shuttering of this corrupt entity. Then Wack… It’s brilliant…