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While we don’t agree on all issues, we wholeheartedly agree that USAID and America’s foreign assistance programs are vital to our interests, that the career men and women of USAID have served each of us well, and that it is the duty of the Administration and Congress to swiftly protect the Agency’s statutory role,
wrote Samantha Power, Gayle Smith, Andrew Natsios, J. Brian Atwood and Peter McPherson Failure to maintain the global engagement that foreign aid enables, to honor the men and women of our civilian service as we do those in the military, or weaken and even destroy the Agency is to the benefit of neither political party and the detriment of all Americans,
USAID may move, reorganize, and integrate certain missions, bureaus, and offices into the Department of State, and the remainder of the Agency may be abolished consistent with applicable law,
he told lawmakers earlier this week My best reading of the law is that although the president could direct greater coordination of USAID with the State Department and maybe even transfer some functions, he cannot unilaterally abolish the agency by executive order,
said Richard Briffault, a professor at Columbia Law School We’re left with very little recourse, which is unfortunate, because they’re going to lose a tremendous workforce, and at the end of the day, America doesn’t win. If USAID closes, America loses,
[USAID is] a foreign policy tool with bipartisan origins that is critical in this dangerous global environment,
New Jersey Senator Andy Kim wrote on social media During the period that you are on administrative leave you are not to enter USAID premises, access USAID systems, or attempt to use your position or authority with USAID in any way without my prior permission or prior permission of a supervisor in your chain of command,
Marocco says in the letter Sounds like it.” ... Look at all the fraud that he’s found in this USAID,
When a reporter told President Donald Trump on Tuesday ... the president said of Elon Musk, the tech billionaire leading the Department of Governmental Efficiency You will remain on administrative leave with pay until otherwise notified,
No access to any government system; can’t see emails. It’s like we’re criminals,
People are hysterical. My friends are crying. We don’t know what’s going on,
said one USAID official put on leave Agency personnel normally assigned to work at these USAID properties should telework this week,
It has to be corrupt,
Trump added without evidence Thank you for your service,
said the organization, which has been providing humanitarian assistance worldwide as a form of US soft power since it was established in 1961 The Agency will consider case-by-case exceptions and return travel extensions based on personal or family hardship, mobility or safety concerns, or other reasons,
