The case, brought by the American Foreign Service Association and the American Federation of Government Employees was intended to block the administration’s efforts to dismantle USAID.
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Caught in foreign aid freeze, R.I.’s Edesia gets good news
It’s been a roller coaster week for the folks who work at Edesia, a Rhode Island nonprofit that helps feed hungry children around the world. Senior staff members were in Sierra Leone, visiting one of their feeding programs, when the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) issued an immediate stop-work order for all of its […]
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USAID officials direct staff on ‘stunning and irresponsible’ cuts to jobs and offices
Secretary of State Marco Rubio approved less than 300 essential personnel as USAID staff in the U.S. and overseas rush to rapidly close missions and leave jobs by midnight Friday.
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Protesters rally against Trump’s stop-work order for USAID
USAID and nonprofit workers gathered near the Capitol in D.C. to protest Elon Musk’s efforts to shut down the aid agency with his Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.
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Trump administration prepares to withdraw USAID staff from overseas posts by weekend
“We are being tasked to assist the Department in recalling USAID employees to the United States by Saturday,” State Department official Seth Green wrote in an email to staff on Tuesday.
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Why does Musk want USAID ‘to die’? And why did its website disappear?
Under the Trump administration, the U.S. agency that funds aid projects has faced layoffs, a stop action order for most aid efforts and a disruption of its website. Now Elon Musk says it should ‘die.’
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Nearly 400 USAID contract employees laid off in wake of Trump’s ‘stop work’ order
All departments were affected, including offices that address HIV and AIDS, infectious disease and child health.
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USAID officials put on leave for allegedly not abiding by executive order
A message to USAID staff, obtained by NPR, says it will analyze “actions within USAID that appear to be designed to circumvent the President’s Executive Order” freezing most foreign aid.
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Why there’s a storm brewing about global food aid from the U.S.
The act of providing food aid to countries in need turns out to be a complicated and controversial matter. Here’s why.
