USAID was dismantled so fast one fired employee had to be REHIRED to process time sheets

The Independent

The Independent

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Australia has banned all services from Chinese tech company DeepSeek on government systems and devices, a move that Chinese AI experts on Wednesday criticized as ideologically driven and indicative of some Western countries' inability to assess China's technological rise fairly and objectively.
Global Times China
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Lawsuits based on loss of income could be used to bring up weighty constitutional claims over presidential power in the face of congressional legislation that set up and funds the agency and its programs.
NBC News
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The US Agency for International Development (USAID) faced an unprecedented shutdown days after President Donald Trump labelled the agency “corrupt.” Established by then-President John F. Kennedy, the agency's dozens of officials were put on leave, and thousands of contractors were laid off.
Hindustan Times
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Apart from ordering the shutdown and dissolution of USAid, he has taken control of the US federal payments system — the system which handles the federal government's payroll, payments to suppliers and contractors, Social Security, disability and other social support, and various pensions — and hamstrung the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which promptly resulted in the first major airline accident in the US in nearly two decades.
The Manila Times

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