The Trump administration said on Sunday that, apart from a fraction of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USA), they all eliminated on vacation worldwide and at least 1,600 jobs based in the USA.
It was the youngest and one of the biggest steps in relation to what President Donald Trump and the cost of the cost of Elon Musk say, the goal of removing the six decades-old auxiliary and development agency in a broader campaign to the size of the federal government.
The move takes place after a federal judge allowed the administration on Friday to advance with their plan to pull thousands of USAID workers in the USA and all over the world from work. The US district judge Carl Nichols, a Trump representative, refused in a lawsuit by employees to continue to temporarily block the government’s plan.
“From 11:59 p.m. ET on Sunday, February 23, 2025 worldwide,” said the information that was sent to USAID workers who were viewed by the Associated Press.
At the same time, the agency informed the employees in the announcements that it was a reduction in violence that would eliminate 2,000 jobs based in the USA. A version of the announcement published later on the USAIS website put on the number of positions with 1,600.
The administration did not explain the discrepancy. USAID and the Foreign Ministry did not immediately respond to news that requested a comment.
The cuts mean that many of the employees based in Washington, who are on leave, will soon have their positions eliminated.
The Trump representative, the USA, deputy administrator Pete Marocco, stated that he is planning to keep around 600 employees of the US employees at work in the meantime, partly to go to USAD employees and families abroad arrange.
The move escalates a one-month advance to reduce the agency, to close its headquarters in Washington and to switch off thousands of help and development programs worldwide after freezing all foreign help. A judge later temporarily blocked the financing freezing. Trump and Musk claim that USAD’s work is wasteful and promotes a liberal agenda.
While the United States pour in a large part of its global “soft power” influence by trying to condemn shutter agencies like USAid like Canada, countries like Canada adapts to how they provide foreign help. The national asks to explain to the experts of the foreign assistance, Kate Higgins, and the global strategy analyst NOAM Unger how auxiliary cuts can destabilize the world and make humanitarian disasters worse.
Complaints from the unions of state employees, USAID officers and others say that the government lack the constitutional authority to eliminate an independent agency or congress financed programs without the consent of the legislator.
The efforts of the Trump government will be in US policy for decades that help and development work in overseas serve national security through the stabilization of regions and economies and the establishment of alliances.
The communications of shot and leaves are hundreds of USAID workers who have not received any name letters from the termination letters last week, according to copies that AP viewed.
Donald Trump’s administration has set up a 90-day freezing for most American abroad, which is managed by the US Agency for International Development (USA). This plan affects countless organizations, including some that are in Quebec and the rest of Canada.
The blanket type of notification letters to USAID contractors, except the names or positions of those who receive them, could make it difficult for the dismissed employees to obtain unemployment benefits, as the employees found.
Another judge in a second lawsuit associated with USA in the past week said last week that the administration had temporarily held back the financing period despite its order and that the financing for programs worldwide has to restore.
The separate decision of Nichols on Friday also released the administration to return the clock with a planned 30-day period for USAID employees and their families if they would like to be paid by the government.
Nichols, who was nominated by Trump in 2018 to serve in the District of Columbia, said that he was satisfied with the administration’s insurance company that workers abroad can stay in their workplaces while they go beyond the 30 days, even if they have decided to stay abroad.
Foreign employees fear that the continued problems with the financing flows and the equipment of most employees of the headquarters make a safe and decent return difficult, especially those with children at school, houses for sale and sick family members.
The announcement of the USAID on Sunday said that “it was obliged to protect his staff in overseas”, and promised not to cut employees abroad from agency systems and other support.
