Most USAID staff dismissed or licensed by Trump administration

The Trump Administration has placed most employees of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) administrative license since midnight on Sunday and fired hundreds more.

In addition to about 4,200 employees who are being licensed, at least 1,600 employees are saying goodbye.

The measure occurs weeks after a legal challenge retained the initial attempt of President Donald Trump to eliminate thousands of USAID employees.

A federal judge temporarily arrested the administration plan to gut the United States foreign aid agency, but ruled on Friday that the pause would not be permanent. Founded in 1961, USAID used around 10,000 employees until they began the recent cost reduction.

The notice to USAID employees on Sunday from the administrator’s office said that the “designated personnel” responsible for critical functions or leadership would be exempt by administrative license.

It is not clear how many employees will remain, but USAID had considered that 611 staff was essential.

The email said Usaid intended to finance voluntary return trips for personnel abroad.

Around 4,200 employees will be placed on license, according to the American news partner of the BBC CBS.

The USAID website said there would be a “strength reduction” of an additional staff of 1,600 in the United States.

That would be equivalent to at least 5,800 USAID employees with administrative or dismissed license, or more than half of the agency’s workforce.

The development follows a decision on Friday by Judge Carl Nichols in Washington DC that the Trump administration could continue with their plans to get rid of USAID employees.

Another federal judge said last week that the Trump administration was not fulfilling a ruling that required the government to continue financing foreign aid already approved by Congress, while legal challenges take place.

It is not clear if the USAID personnel who are licensed will eventually be releasing or their positions will also be eliminated.

The Trump administration is trying to reduce federal workforce and reduce costs in an impulse led by Elon Musk.

The billionaire advisor Trump asked millions of bureaucrats during the weekend to list his achievements last week.

On Saturday, from the stage of a conservative convention near Washington DC, Trump said: “We have also effectively finished the left -wing scam known as Usaid.

“The agency’s name has been eliminated from its old building, and that space will now house customs and border patrol agents.”

Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), an Immigration Application Agency of the United States, is ready to move to the USAID building in the heart of the capital of the nation.

“CBP has signed a license agreement to occupy approximately 390,000 square feet usable at the USAID tower,” a CBP spokesman told Fox News.

Trump and Musk have criticized the considerable expenditure abroad from the United States, and USAID has become a lightning rod for frustration. Trump and his allies have accused the agency to be too liberal and wasteful.

Usaid cuts have already altered the global aid system. Hundreds of programs have frozen in countries around the world since the president announced their intentions in January.

The United States is, with much, the largest supplier of humanitarian aid worldwide. It has bases in more than 60 countries and works in dozens of others, with much of their work carried out by its contractors.

Former USAID chief, Gayle Smith He told the BBC previously: “When you take out all that, you send some very dangerous messages.

“To the United States is pointing out that we do not care frankly if people live or die and that we are not a reliable partner.”