The Ministry of Governmental Efficiency (DOGE) has softened the USAID Agency (USAID), taking a team of more than 10,000 to less than 300, according to an internal email seen and responds from the current US International Development Agency employees.
This step leaves only 12 people in the Agency’s African office and eight people in its office in Asia, about 290 years. There will be some additional foreign workers detained, and tells two WIRED employees, but it is not clear that the number of employees.
“There are more poor people in Asia than anywhere, and our presence has always helped face the influence of China,” said an employee of the US agency. an agency.
On Tuesday, the US Agency for International Development received an email indicating that all employees will be placed on an administrative leave starting on Friday, February 7, with the exception of “appointed employees responsible for important jobs.” The notification was published on the agency’s website shortly. He also determined that the agency’s workers stationed abroad will be called to the United States.
The US International Development Agency and the US State Department did not respond immediately to request a comment.
This was not an unexpected step. The American International Development Agency was a special goal in Crosshairs Musk, with Centibillionaire You call it “Criminal Organization” on X and Boasting About “feeding it through a wooden cat.”
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President Donald Trump was the same as the agency. One of his first actions after taking office last month was to sign an executive order to freeze external aid, many of which are implemented by the United States Agency for International Development. Indeed, the change has criticized anti -constructive actions, including projects that help people escape work vehicles as they are enslaved and forced to commit digital fraud, according to WIRED on Wednesday.
Although the administration later made it clear that “saving life” work will be allowed to continue in the framework of the emergency assignment program, the agency’s chaotic acquisition has made this impossible in practice. As WIRED reported on Monday, the vital HIV/HIV work was disabled, as workers were disabled on the ground in countries like Haiti from access to anti -virus drugs – although many of this work was technically granted.
Meanwhile, some current employees stationed abroad have not yet been informed of the latest changes in the agency. “The only official communication that I received is from the facilities of the Ministry of State of Local Embassy, they ask whether we were moving abroad or at it so that they can renew our homes,” says one of the American Agency for International Development.