The Trump administration has given most USAID employees on midnight administrative leave on Sunday.
Some 2,000 employees are also laid off in an effort to “reduce strength,” the administrator’s office said in an email to the employees obtained by CBS News, the American BBC partner.
This decision comes for weeks after President Donald Trump initially attempted to eliminate thousands of USAID employees, but the move was faced with a legal challenge.
A federal judge had temporarily interrupted the administration’s plan to interact the American foreign aid agency, but judged on Friday that the break would not be permanent.
The notice to employees specifies that the “designated staff” responsible for critical functions or management will be exempt. It is not clear how many employees have been tried criticism.
The email to the staff said that the USAID intended to finance voluntary trips for staff abroad.
Judge Carl Nichols judged on Friday that the Trump administration could continue its plans to get rid of staff members, rejecting employee pleas to arrest the government plan.
Sunday’s announcement marks the last in a series of movements from the Trump administration to reduce the federal workforce and reduce costs.
This effort is led by billionaire Trump, Elon Musk, who asked during the weekend that millions of bureaucrats list their achievements from last week.
The couple was critical of important America’s important expenses abroad, and USAID has become a lightning rod for their frustration. Trump said the agency was not aligning with its “America First” political priorities.
On Saturday, since the scene of a conservative agreement outside Washington DC, Trump said: “We also ended the left scam known as USAID.
“The name of the agency has been removed from its old building, and this space will now house customs and border patrol agents.”
Customs and border patrol (CBP), an American immigration agency, would be ready to move into the USAID building in the heart of the national capital.
“CBP has signed a license agreement to occupy around 390,000 square feet that can be used in the USAID tower,” a CBP spokesperson for Fox News told.
USAID has employed around 10,000 people, two thirds of whom worked abroad, according to the Congressal Research Service.
Trump’s cuts to USAID – defended by Musk – have already upset the world aid system. Hundreds of programs have been frozen in countries around the world since the president announced his intentions in January.
The United States is by far the largest humanitarian aid supplier in the world. He has bases in more than 60 countries and works in dozens of others, a large part of his work carried out by his entrepreneurs.
“When you remove all of this, you send very dangerous messages”, the former chief of the USAID Gayle Smith previously told to the BBC.
“The United States reports that we are not really careful to know if people live or die and that we are not a reliable partner.”
