Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey hey, GOODBYEEEEEE. Over 9,500 agents with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) are kissing their jobs goodbye after President Donald Trump announced plans to keep less than 300 of the 10,000 staff, worldwide.
Reuters reports:
The four sources familiar with the plan said only 294 staff at the agency would be allowed to keep their jobs, including only 12 in the Africa bureau and eight in the Asia bureau.
“That’s outrageous,” said J. Brian Atwood, who served as head of USAID for more than six years, adding the mass termination of personnel would effectively kill an agency that has helped keep tens of millions of people around the world from dying.
“A lot of people will not survive,” said Atwood, now a senior fellow at Brown University’s Watson Institute.
Oh please, tell me how money spent on DEI musicals in Ireland and trans comic books in Peru was saving lives??
The administration announced on Tuesday it was going to put on leave all directly hired USAID employees globally, and recall thousands of personnel working overseas.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio had said the administration was identifying and designating programs that would be exempted from the sweeping stop-work orders, which have threatened efforts around the globe to stop the spread of disease, prevent famine and otherwise alleviate poverty.
Good riddance!! Use American money on things that actually benefit Americans and stop sending our money to nonsense projects overseas.
BREAKING: Secretary of State Marco Rubio just deemed that only 294 USAID staffers are necessary out of 14,000.
The entire agency will be imminently reduced from 14,000 to 294 employees.
This has to be the biggest mass firing yet. pic.twitter.com/5Hf8op7VPb
— George (@BehizyTweets) February 6, 2025
This will save American taxpayers billions. If there is one administration that can get the United States deficit under control and lower inflation, it’s the Trump administration.