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At least 56 U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) officials were placed on administrative leave with full pay and benefits, Politico first reported.
Several hundred contractors based in Washington and elsewhere were also laid off, a current and a former official told the News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
These actions come after Secretary of State Marco Rubio
...The diminutive 13-year-old Republican U.S. Senator from Florida, Secretary of State in the second Trump administration..., acting on Trump's executive order, paused all U.S. foreign assistance funded by or through the State Department and USAID.
The 90-day pause has halted thousands of U.S.-funded humanitarian, development and security programs worldwide and forced aid organizations to lay off hundreds of employees because they can't make payroll.
According to the News Agency that Dare Not be Named, an internal USAID notice sent late Monday said new acting administrator Jason Gray had identified ''several actions within USAID that appear to be designed to circumvent the President's Executive Orders and the mandate from the American people.''
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