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Trump administration to keep only 294 USAID staff out of over 10,000 globally, sources say
Reuters ^ | 2/6/2025 | Erin Banco, Jonathan Landay and Patricia Zengerle

Posted on 02/06/2025 2:28:54 PM PST by marcusmaximus

President Donald Trump's administration plans to keep fewer than 300 staff at the U.S. Agency for International Development out of the agency's worldwide total of more than 10,000, four sources told Reuters on Thursday.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: usaid; winning
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1 posted on 02/06/2025 2:28:54 PM PST by marcusmaximus
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To: marcusmaximus

Good. Musk had similar ratios with Twitter.


2 posted on 02/06/2025 2:30:31 PM PST by rfp1234 (E Porcibus Unum)
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To: marcusmaximus

Wow. 99.8% reduction. Beats Reagan.


3 posted on 02/06/2025 2:30:53 PM PST by nwrep
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To: rfp1234

Exactly.


4 posted on 02/06/2025 2:31:08 PM PST by marcusmaximus
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To: marcusmaximus

Winning.


5 posted on 02/06/2025 2:31:22 PM PST by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and don't wish to smile.)
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To: marcusmaximus; aMorePerfectUnion
Posted on 2/6/2025, 5:28:54 PM by marcusmaximus

When is your last day?

Are you eligible for unemployment?

6 posted on 02/06/2025 2:34:25 PM PST by C210N (Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.)
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To: nwrep

Yep.

Now do the Dept of Education....

The IRS....

Find out where the TRILLIONS in defense money that’s “missing” went....


7 posted on 02/06/2025 2:34:27 PM PST by TigerClaws
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To: marcusmaximus

That’s really great!

Winning. Saving money.


8 posted on 02/06/2025 2:35:13 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino and)
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To: marcusmaximus

294 is 294 too many.


9 posted on 02/06/2025 2:36:27 PM PST by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Learn three chords and you, too, can be a Rock Star!)
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To: marcusmaximus

294 is 294 too many.


10 posted on 02/06/2025 2:36:33 PM PST by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Learn three chords and you, too, can be a Rock Star!)
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To: marcusmaximus

https://x.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1887612584511086902

Tax cuts are coming.


11 posted on 02/06/2025 2:36:41 PM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: marcusmaximus

That’s still too many. How about ZERO? Liquidate the USAID money laundering agency altogether!


12 posted on 02/06/2025 2:36:49 PM PST by drypowder
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Hard to transition to working for living after “working” for the gubmint.

Some folk gonna find out it’s a cold cruel world out there.


13 posted on 02/06/2025 2:37:57 PM PST by Biblebelter
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To: TigerClaws

Yup—we are starting to roll now!


14 posted on 02/06/2025 2:39:10 PM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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To: C210N

lol!


15 posted on 02/06/2025 2:39:31 PM PST by marcusmaximus
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To: marcusmaximus

294 people are needed to finalize and complete the total shutdown of USAID.

Works for me.


16 posted on 02/06/2025 2:40:15 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: marcusmaximus

Hopefully that staff is the janitors and the security guards. Everybody else needs to go.


17 posted on 02/06/2025 2:40:20 PM PST by suasponte137
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To: marcusmaximus

Not bad.

But I would have preferred zero employees left over and at least a few hundred in jail for misuse of TAXPAYER’S (not “government”) funds . . .


18 posted on 02/06/2025 2:42:41 PM PST by MCSETots ( )
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**Hopefully that staff is the janitors and the security guards. Everybody else needs to go.**

Downsize then move the HQ to Idaho. Moving costs will be cheap.
There’s always Chicago.


19 posted on 02/06/2025 2:47:00 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: marcusmaximus

294 kept out of >10,000, yet people hereon are still pi$$ing and moaning. SMH.


20 posted on 02/06/2025 2:47:02 PM PST by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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