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2025-01-28 Home Front: Politix
VA places 60 DEI employees on leave with salaries totaling more than $8M, USAID workers on leave for resisting aid pause
[FoxNews] VA also working to cancel $6M worth of contracts for DEI-related training, materials, consulting services.

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has placed nearly 60 employees on leave who focused on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives and had a combined salary of more than $8 million.

The VA said in a press release Monday that it completed its implementation of President Donald Trump’s executive order to end DEI in the federal government.

Part of the VA’s abolishment of DEI within the agency meant placing on paid administrative leave about 60 employees who were solely focused on DEI activities.

The VA said the combined salary of the employees – including base pay, locality pay and additional earnings – exceeds $8 million, with the average pay being about $136,000 per year, per employee.

USAID workers put on leave as Trump officials investigate resistance to aid pause
[FoxNews] At least 56 senior USAID officials have been placed on leave amid an investigation into resistance to President Donald Trump's orders.

Trump admin to pause financial assistance programs: report
[FoxNews] White House memo pauses grants for foreign aid, NGOs, DEI, 'woke general ideology' and Green New Deal pending review.

Trump suspends dozens of top officials for blocking his freeze on foreign aid
[DM]
  • 57 top staff at U.S. Agency for International Development are on leave

  • Trump ordered all foreign aid frozen for three months
Back to their desks at Langley soon.
Posted by Skidmark 2025-01-28 00:26|| || Front Page|| [11147 views ]  Top

#1 My math sez that is over $130k per. That's pretty good work if you can get it.
Posted by Besoeker 2025-01-28 01:10||   2025-01-28 01:10|| Front Page Top

#2 Paid leave?
Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-01-28 01:12||   2025-01-28 01:12|| Front Page Top

#3 Barnacles
Posted by Procopius2k 2025-01-28 08:38||   2025-01-28 08:38|| Front Page Top

#4 Yes it is paid leave.

To put people on unpaid leave without a finding that they had violated the law would violate all kinds of statutes
Posted by Lord Garth 2025-01-28 08:53||   2025-01-28 08:53|| Front Page Top

#5 Thank you for catching that, Jack+Creanter7508. It’s my typo — should be USAID. I’ll fix it now.
Posted by trailing wife 2025-01-28 12:31||   2025-01-28 12:31|| Front Page Top

#6 My math sez that is over $130k per. That's pretty good work if you can get it.

Even better if you don't have to work for it.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2025-01-28 12:38||   2025-01-28 12:38|| Front Page Top

#7 Six months on paid leave and the place doesn't fall apart, then those positions can be abolished.
Posted by Procopius2k 2025-01-28 13:06||   2025-01-28 13:06|| Front Page Top

#8 Back to their desks at

Federal workers are told their 'vacation is over' as Donald Trump orders all employees return to the office
Posted by Skidmark 2025-01-28 13:30||   2025-01-28 13:30|| Front Page Top

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