Trump administration to cut all USAID overseas roles and axe thousands of staff

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Source: The Guardian

Tue 10 Jun 2025 12.05 EDT
Last modified on Tue 10 Jun 2025 12.16 EDT


The Trump administration will eliminate all USAID (United States Agency for International Development) overseas positions worldwide by 30 September in a dramatic restructuring of remaining US foreign aid operations.

In a Tuesday state department cable obtained by the Guardian, secretary of state Marco Rubio ordered the abolishment of the agency’s entire international workforce, transferring control of foreign assistance programs directly to the state department.

The directive affects thousands of USAID staff globally, including foreign service officers, contractors and locally employed personnel across more than 100 countries. Chiefs of mission at US embassies have been told to prepare for the sweeping changes to occur within four months.

“The Department of State is streamlining procedures under National Security Decision Directive 38 to abolish all USAID overseas positions,” the cable reads, adding that the department “will assume responsibility for foreign assistance programming previously undertaken by USAID” from 15 June. The state department did not respond to a request for comment.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/10/trump-fires-usaid-overseas-employees

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1. So...when is the NEXT farmer bail out coming Trump?? n/t

[IronLionZion]

2. And how much of our tax dollars are they saving?

Less than 1%.

The US government's biggest expenditures are:
1. Social Security
2. Medicare
3. Defense

In that order

[sinkingfeeling]

3. So making China the humanitarian of the world is a great idea. Wonder where folks in poor

countries will pledge their loyalties?

[WestMichRad]

4. US foreign aid under the TACO administration:

“What can you do for us?”

[IronLionZion]

6. He'll give aid to anyone who offers him a free luxury jet

[WestMichRad]

8. Or an 8 figure donation

[Torchlight]

5. I'll wonder how much of that is going to line Mr. trump's pocket

versus how big the tax cuts for the 1% will be.

[nowforever]

7. When you only have 4 years to destroy a country

You have to move fast, no time to think, we must dismantle all that is good about being the World's leading democracy. An Orange Imbecile is our master and we need to heed his every idiotic notion or desire. He hates..we hate...he is cruel...we are cruel, his followers are clearly composed of the same ilk that infests him..