Trump Administration to Fire 2,000 Usaid Workers

A recent Fired Us Agency for International Development (Usaid) Staff Member Reacts While Leaving Work, DURING A Sendoff by Former Usaid Staffers and Supporters Outside Usaid Outside Outside Usa DC, US File | Photo Credit: Reuters
The Trump Administration said on Sunday (February 23, 2025) that it is eliminating 2,000 posts at the US agency for interactive development and placing all but a friction of other.
It came after a federal judge allowed the administration to move forward with pulling Thousands of usaid staffers off the job in the united states and Around the World. Us District Judge Carl Nichols Rejected pleas to keep his temporary stay on the government’s plan in a lawsuit from employees.

The notices were sent to usaid works and viewed by The Associate Press,
“As of 11:59 pm est on Sunday, February 23, 2025, all usaid direct hire personnel, with the exception of designed personnel responsible for mission-critical functions, Critical Functions, CORE REDERSHP and ORI Specially designated programs, will be placed on administer leave globally, ”The notices say.
The move escalats a monthlong administration assault on the agency that has been closed its headquarters in washington and shut down thosands of us aid and development programs walling free Foreign assistance. President Donald Trump and His Chief Cost-Cutter, Elon Musk, Conte the Aid and Development work is wasteful and furters a liberal ageda.
The notices of firings and leaves come on top of hundreds of usaid contractors receiving no-uname form letters of termination over the week, according to copies that AP Viewed.
The blanket nature of the notification letters to usaid contractors, excluding the names or positions of that receives it, could make it difference for the dismissed works workers noted.
A different Judge in a second lawsuit tied to the dismantling of usaid has temporaryly blocked the freeze on Foreign assistance and said this past week that the administics has been done Must at Least Temporarily Restore the Funding to Programs Worldwide.
Published – February 24, 2025 03:18 AM IST