The Trump administration has returned most USAID employees to administrative leave from midnight Sunday.
The administrator office said that about 2,000 employees are also being fired by employees by emails to employees obtained by the BBC’s US news partner CBS News.
This action occurred a few weeks after Donald Trump first attempted to remove thousands of USAID staff, but this measure faced legal challenge.
The federal judge temporarily suspended the executive’s plan for foreign aid agencies in the US, but ruled that the suspension would not be permanent on Friday.
It is stated to employees that the “specified manpower”, which is responsible for important functions or leadership, will be exempted. It is not clear how many employees are considered important.
According to an email to employees, USAID is intended to fund funds for voluntary return travel for overseas employees.
Judge Carl Nichols ruled that the Trump administration could continue to remove employees.
The Sunday announcement is the latest in a series of movements to reduce federal labor and reduce costs in the Trump administration.
This effort is led by the billionaire Trump advisor Elon Musk on weekends.
This pair was critical of the US’s significant overseas spending, and USAID became frustrating lightning. Trump said the institution did not match his “American first” policy priority.
Trump said on Saturday, on the conservative competition outside the Washington DC, “We also effectively finished the left -wing fraud known as USAID.
“The name of this institution was removed from the previous building, and the space will now accept agents from tariffs and border patrols.”
The US immigration enhancement institution, the Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), is known to be ready to move to the USAID building in the center of the state.
A CBP spokesman said, “The CBP has signed a license agreement to take about 390,000 square feet in the USAID tower.”
According to parliamentary research services, USAID hired about 10,000 people, two -thirds of them worked abroad.
Trump’s cuts for USAID won by MUSK have already improved the global aid system. Since the president announced his intentions in January, hundreds of programs have been frozen in countries around the world.
The United States is the world’s largest humanitarian aid provider. There are more than 60 countries, work in dozens of others, and contractors do a lot of work.
“When you take out all of this, you send a very dangerous message.” Previously told the BBC.
“The United States doesn’t care about whether people live or die, and they are signaling that they are not reliable partners.”
