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He’s effectively putting the Trump and Rubio foreign policy vision at risk, ... If you kill an institution, you are not going to revive it overnight.”
another USAID official told NBC News, warning What he’s doing now is frighteningly similar to everything he was trying to do at USAID before, but this time he’s destroying it,
said one USAID official familiar with his past actions If there’s a tropical cyclone that hits Cox’s Bazar tomorrow, then how are you going to save all those people, and then how are you going to rebuild if there’s a stop-work order
said a former senior USAid official, referring to the city in Bangladesh where more than 1 million Rohingya refugees are living They wanted to decapitate the organisation,
said a current USAid employee We’re all trying to figure out, is there a review process? Who’s part of that review?”
said the former senior USAid official We have identified several actions within USAid that appear to be designed to circumvent the president’s executive orders and the mandate from the American people,
wrote Jason Gray, USAid’s acting administrator, saying the relevant staff would be put on administrative leave Democrats and their allies in the media who think they are going to obstruct our ability to deliver on this mandate by going back to the same January 6 playbook of smears and faux outrage that was soundly rejected by the American people will be disappointed,
Trump’s spokesperson, Karoline Leavitt, told Politico at the time He is not a disruptor. He’s a destroyer,
said a former USAid official, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss Marocco The reaction was recoil and horror,
said a former senior USAid official regarding Marocco’s appointment I wish you all the best – you do not deserve this,
[The United States] is no longer going to blindly dole out money with no return for the American people."
Spokesperson for the U.S. Department of State Tammy Bruce said in a statement DOGE instructed me to violate the due process of our employees by issuing immediate termination notices to a group of employees without due process."
In an email obtained and reported on by The Washington Post, which circulated on social media, Nicholas Gottlieb, director of employee and labor relations at USAID wrote The United States foreign aid industry and bureaucracy are not aligned with American interests and in many cases antithetical to American values. They serve to destabilize world peace by promoting ideas in foreign countries that are directly inverse to harmonious and stable relations internal to and among countries."
Trump's Executive Order states I was notified moments ago that I will be placed on administrative leave, effective immediately. It has been an honor working with you all,
The email then stated ... the email continued, before Gottlieb then asked people to be kind to remaining employees, who will be "very-short staffed and pressed over the coming months This moves the United States government to a place where the humanitarian voice will not be in high-level policy discussions,
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