“It is a shameful, vile, unprecedented way to treat public servants, whose safety is at stake following vicious, defamatory Musk statements,” one USAID official said. On Tuesday evening, officials who are direct hires of the US government began receiving leave notice. Later that night, the a...
This week, hundreds of USAID employees were blocked from entering headquarters and locked out of their work accounts after Department of Government Efficiency chiefElon Muskannounced that he and President Trumphad agreed to shut down the agency. The consequences of this decision will stretch far beyon...
Trump and his top aides have argued that foreign aid is a waste of taxpayer resources.Elon Musk, the president’s biggest donor who has been given unprecedented authority as the head of a made-up “Department of Government Efficiency,”claimedwithout evidence that “USAID is a criminal organizat...
on government expense. Both moves would have exposed the U.S. workers and their spouses and children to unwarranted risk and expense, the judge said. Nichols pointed to accounts from workers abroad that the Trump administration, in its rush to shut down the agency and its programs abroad, ...
which now operates the Global Aid Freeze website, said 568 organizations responded to its survey about the impacts of the U.S. government's foreign aid freeze. Half of the respondents estimated they had less than 3 months of operating reserves, meaning they will shutdown...
private sector companies and think tanks as well as at least nine U.S. government agencies, was supremely stealthy and went on for most of 2020 before being detected in December by the cybersecurity firm FireEye, this campaign is what cybersecurity researchers call "noisy," meaning easy to ...
Widespread fears over the meaning of the Trump administration's January foreign aid freeze gave way to shock and despair this week as the US government permanently cancelled funding for nearly 10000 projects supporting health and development around the world. Some 5800 of the United States Agency ...
government. McSpedon didn't work for the CIA. This was a program paid for and run by the U.S. Agency for International Development, best known for overseeing billions of dollars in U.S. humanitarian aid. According to documents obtained by The Associated Press and multiple interviews with ...
“People are concerned that they could be summarily asked to leave their housing, because all of our housing is sponsored by the US government, and if we’re not allowed in government buildings, then by extension, people are wondering, are we allowed to stay in our house?” ...
The Trump administration’sdismantling of the US Agency for International Development (USAID)and its sweeping freeze on foreign assistance has made it more difficult to track potential misuse of US taxpayer-funded humanitarian assistance, meaning it could end up unintentionally goi...