2 days ago · USAID could be shut down, merged into State Department 02:17. Washington — Nearly all staff for the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, will be placed on leave Friday night, the ...

4 days ago · Other programs that would shut down provided education to schoolgirls in Afghanistan under Taliban rule and monitored an Ebola outbreak spreading in Uganda. A USAID-supported crisis monitoring program, which was credited for helping prevent repeats of the 1980s famine in Uganda that killed up to 1.2 million people, has gone offline.

1 day ago · After Secretary of State Marco Rubio approved less than 300 essential personnel to continue in jobs past Friday, unions representing USAID workers sue the Trump administration over cuts to the agency.

2 days ago · The USAID building sits closed to employees after a memo was issued advising agency personnel to work remotely, in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 3, 2025.

2 days ago · The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has been immobilized in recent days as part of the Trump administration’s tumultuous effort to remake the federal government.

20 hours ago · USAID’s workforce has more than 10,000 employees, more than 6,000 of whom are overseas, according to the Congressional Research Service. As of Thursday night, it was unclear how many would be ...

4 days ago · Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Monday that he is acting administrator the US Agency for International Development, confirming the de-facto takeover of the humanitarian agency by the ...

2 days ago · Reuters. The USAID building sits closed to employees after a memo was issued advising agency personnel to work remotely, in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 3, 2025.

4 days ago · The Trump freeze on foreign assistance and targeting of USAID, which oversees humanitarian, development and security programs in some 120 countries, has forced U.S. and international companies to ...

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