Posted on 01/27/2025 5:28:25 PM PST by ransomnote
WASHINGTON, Jan 27 (Reuters) - The Trump administration has put on leave about 60 senior career officials at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) workers, sources familiar with the matter said, after Washington put a sweeping freeze on U.S. aid worldwide.SNIP
An internal memo sent to USAID employees on Monday evening said the new leadership identified several actions in the agency that "appeared to be designed to circumvent the President's Executive Orders and the mandate from the American people."SNIP
Since returning to office last week, Trump has taken steps toward fulfilling his vow to remake a federal bureaucracy he believes was hostile to him during his 2017-2021 presidency. He has reassigned or fired hundreds of workers in moves against a swath of agencies.Hours after taking office, Trump ordered a 90-day pause in foreign aid to review if it was aligned with his foreign policy priorities. On Friday, the State Department issued a stop-work order worldwide even for existing assistance, calling into question billions of dollars of life-saving aid.
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“Those being put on leave comprised career staff in the leadership positions of almost all USAID bureaus based in Washington, with roles ranging from energy security to water security, children’s education and digital technology, two of the sources said. Staff in the agency’s general counsel’s office were among those targeted.”
A bit of TRANSLATION is in order:
1. “Energy Security”: Destroying reliable powerplants so that blackouts are daily, as in South Africa now.
2. “Water Security”: Destroying dams and preventing them from being built, as in California and rest of US.
3. “Children’s Education”: Grooming.
4. “Digital Technology”: Debanking and worse for political enemies.
US AID used to be used as a Cover for CIA. Might be catching some of them here.
USAID is just a CIA cutout anyway. Abolish it.
FIRE THEM!!! LEAVE is just a PAID VACATION!
Union rules - on paid leave until accusations against them are investigated/proven.
The United States is the largest single donor of aid globally - in fiscal year 2023, it disbursed $72 billion in assistance.
this was 23. that is a lot of money on pause. does trump have anyone’s attention?
https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/p/pausekey.htm
everyone knows where the pause/break button is on the keyboard, right. much better than the overload button.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_reset
On March 6, 2009 in Geneva, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presented Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov with a red button with the English word “reset” and the Roman alphabet transliteration of the Russian Cyrillic alphabet word перегрузка (”peregruzka”). It was intended that this would be the Russian word for “reset” but actually was the word for “overload”.
We give out 42% of all foreign aid? We are bankrupt and keep giving out money. Our money helps to fight AIDS? .just make sure you don’t tell people to abstain from activities which spread the disease...where is Ukraine, Russia, Europe, Japan, China, India, Brazil, Saudi Arabia? They better pony up, the ingrates....cut the money to the swamp...
We’d do far more good just writing a check to World Vision or Heifer International.
FAFO President.
Lefties getting the vapors. Go MAGA! Beat Marxists! Rah, Rah, Rah!
USAID apparatchiki now have to go back to their CIA homebase paychecks.
-fJRoberts-
The NGO’s and various foreign aid vessels are corrupt beyond repair.
I never heard of this agency. Does it serve a purpose?
In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled Trump administration puts on leave nearly 60 USAID career staff after aid freeze, Cobra64 wrote: I never heard of this agency. Does it serve a purpose?
Yes. The Deep State uses it to fund coups, drug/gun running, human trafficking and other Clinton friendly crimes all over the world. Some countries' citizens actually benefit from the assistance, but too often the money goes straight to warlords and criminal regimes under the stated purpose of clean water, antibiotics, humanitarian aid, heating, pensions/salaries of staff until country gets on its feet. For those lucky few citizens who benefit, it is indeed a blessing.
Typical shameless lying by Reuters. They were put on leave for willfully defying Trump’s orders while an investigation is being conducted on the road to firing them
Deadbeat do-gooders!
Fire them all...
Wow! Thanks for the education.
I wonder how many of them were Zeepers...
Foreign aid funds abortion and sterilizations too if I’m not mistaken. :(
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