United States: USAID Purge Accelerates
ANALYSIS - Following the freeze on American foreign aid, decided in January for 90 days, staff have been placed on administrative leave or made redundant since this weekend.
The two billionaires who are in charge in the United States are, as announced, taking another step in the extermination of humanitarian aid. On Sunday evening, at midnight, the Trump administration placed almost all of the 4,700 employees of the United States Agency for International Development, or USAID , on paid administrative leave.
The president's staff also announced the layoffs of 1,600 employees whose positions, based in the United States, will be eliminated. Within hours of the announcement on Sunday, staffers began receiving their layoff notices. Hundreds of USAID contractors had already received anonymous layoff letters last week, the AP also reported.
On the day he took office, January 20, Donald Trump signed an executive order freezing U.S. foreign aid for 90 days while a comprehensive review was carried out. In the process, virtually all…
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