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The Washington Post -Breaking News - February 4, 2025 - Most USAID workers to be put on leave as all overseas staff are recalled, Trump administration says

 

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Feb. 4, 11:37 p.m. EST

 

Most USAID workers to be put on leave as all overseas staff are recalled, Trump administration says


The move is the latest action in a jarring broadside against America’s foreign aid architecture that has followed President Donald Trump’s return to the White House. In the weeks since his inauguration, the new administration has announced a broad freeze on foreign aid programs — unleashing upheaval across the aid sector and financial crises for groups reliant on USAID funding — and fired, furloughed or put on leave the bulk of AID employees.

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