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USAID set to be hacked from 14,000 staff to only 294 as Trump workforce shreds humanitarian company: report

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Only 294 employees with the United States Agency for International Development have been deemed essential among 14,000 global staff members.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has reportedly said that crucial health and humanitarian aid will continue, following threats from Donald Trump and Elon Musk to dissolve the entire agency, but the administration intends to decimate its size, including limiting staff to only 12 people in Africa.

An internal chart of the employee breakdown shared by a former USAID global health director also notes that only 21 people will serve the Middle East, with only eight people assigned to all of Asia and eight people assigned to Latin America.

Trump administration officials have smeared the agency’s spending as unnecessary, wasteful, politically motivated and in conflict with the president’s foreign policy and ideological agenda.

Rapidly escalating threats to the 63-year-old agency — which funds and supports health services, disaster relief and anti-poverty efforts around the world — have scrambled employees, leaving many in shock and disbelief as Musk and his allies baselessly label USAID a “criminal organization” and a “radical-left political psy op.”

The Independent has requested comment from the State Department, which has assumed control of the agency in the wake of Trump’s presidency.

This is a developing story

Source: independent.co.uk

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