Trump Admin Fires 1,600 USAID Employees
“Core leadership” stays.
President Donald Trump’s administration fired 1,600 USAID employees and placed many more on leave on Sunday night after a judge ruled they could move ahead with the plans.
I’m seeing that the administration placed 4,700 on leace.
The USAID website this morning:
As of 11:59 p.m. EST on Sunday, February 23, 2025, all USAID direct hire personnel, with the exception of designated personnel responsible for mission-critical functions, core leadership and/or specially designated programs, will be placed on administrative leave globally.
Concurrently, USAID is beginning to implement a Reduction-in-Force that will affect approximately 1,600 USAID personnel with duty stations in the United States.
Individuals that are impacted will receive specific notifications on February 23, 2025, with further instructions and information about their benefits and rights.
Designated essential personnel who are expected to continue working will be informed by Agency leadership February 23, 2025, by 5 p.m. EST.
Elon Musk has been front and center at the USAID’s dismantling, finding so much waste and stupidity.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio became acting commissioner on February 3.
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Reminds me of the old joke “what do you call 1,000 dead lawyers at the bottom of the sea?”
Answer: A good start.
This is just a good start.
What you call it if he had used a scalpel? A drop in the bucket?
Well, yeah. If he used a scalpel there would be maybe one or two employees on a waiting list to be reviewed.
Given the pace of acitivity, I’ve forgotten what the total headcount at that money laundromat was to begin with. 2k out of how many?
These cuts are good, but they don’t go deep enough. With the enormous amount of money spent on fraudulent projects and wasted money, one cannot overlook laundering and kickbacks to US politicians (and their children) through NGOs.
Need a Ghostrider to ride through beauracracy and weed out all the ghost employees.
An anti bureaucratic pesticide…IOW accountability.
Patience. The Deep State bureaucracy took decades to metastasize, it will take more than a month to dissolve. Trump is setting up court cases left and right to settle the fact that the Chief Executive is actually in charge of the Executive Branch not the permanent bureaucracy.
This is a good start.
Hardest hit, all the democrat NGO’s that gorged themselves on tax payers money for no tangible benefit in return! Other than living the good life off the tax payers dollar!
There’s going to be endless stories of families left workout the ability to pay for their housing, food on the table, etc
Which of course w never heard when they were determined to destroy the energy sector
Yeah, Coal Miners were supposed to learn to code…
Because, deep down, attorneys are just good folks. A little humor on Monday.
The only extraodinary attorney is Attorney Woo.
maybe those operating against American interests should be left abroad
They could put a DEI intern in charge of the return airline reservations, with a DEC VT52 and a 150 baud modem.
The left has discovered what Trump is up to. It’s not Hitler anymore:
Driven by the contradictory demands of his situation and being at the same time, like a conjurer, under the necessity of keeping the public gaze on himself, as Napoleon’s substitute, by springing constant surprises, that is to say, under the necessity of executing a coup d’etat en miniature every day, Bonaparte throws the entire bourgeois economy into confusion, violates everything that seemed inviolable to the Revolution of 1848, makes some tolerant of revolution, others desirous of revolution, and produces anarchy in the name of order, while at the same time stripping its halo from the entire state machine, profanes it and makes it loathsome and ridiculous
Marx, 18th Brumaire of Louis Napoleon (1851)
Speaking of distracting prople, the Dems are pulling out all the stops to avoid facing the fact that if the Democrats had worked as hard at ending corruption and waste as they did at becoming an authoritarian, war-mongering Woke circus sideshow, then Trump would probably never have even run.
Or to put it differently, Trump isn’t “making the state machine loathsome and ridiculous”; he ran (and was elected twice) because the state machine had become loathesome and ridiculous, and was using authoritarian, criminal means to remain so.
It’s not Hitler anymore: Run for your life!
*snort*
What’s next, Pol Pot?
You clowns will never learn.
The left is crippled by the fact that all the other really scary tyrants have been their fellow socialists.
Once you have exhausted Hitler and possibly Mussolini (who were also socialists, but there is a concerted revisionist narrative bubble around them), they are absolutely out of right-wing tyrants.., at least those the public will immediately recognize,
“Trump is literally Leopold II of Belgium!” quite lacks all impetus.
Maybe Vlad the Impaler? Or Kerry can do some Senate hearings calling him “Jengis Kahn”?
The Deep State Judiciary is out of control. They won’t even begin to think about stopping until one or more of them is Impeached.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-judge-blocks-musks-doge-team-accessing-education-department-opm-data-2025-02-24/
The Judicial Branch’s effort to prevent the Executive Branch from investigating a segment of the Executive Branch is a violation of the Separation of Powers doctrine, and completely outside of the Judicial Branch’s actual authority.
The Trump administration should just ignore the judge and move ahead with its investigation of the Department of Education.
Agree completely. If Trump ordered a judge to find someone guilty or not guilty, wouldn’t that judge ignore that order? Of course he/she would.
The Judge can bring Rusty out of retirement to enforce their rulings.
Trump is winning the PR campaign exposing the corruption, waste and fraud and at the same time exposing the blatant partisanship of these leftist District Judges. Rather than defy the courts he should continue to push forward on all fronts while fighting the delaying tactic legal battles. The American people are getting a real education on the abuse and clearly the President is gaining more support at almost every exposure.
The good guys now control the DOJ and their unlimited legal resources. Some of these cases will be wins for Doge but some of the worst will arrive at the Supreme Court. By the time they get there most of the nation and a majority of the court will be outraged by what the administrative state has done and will have had a belly full of leftist district judges ruling that the Bureaucrats not the President control the executive branch.
I think Trump and Doge will prevail. If not, then that is the time to say you have made your ruling, so you enforce it. It would be far better for the USSC to rule that the constitution is the rule of the land and applies to the administrative state and lawless judges. If they don’t then and only then should the President say the constitution clearly gives me and only me the authority so go pound sand.
Maybe they can get a gaggle of washed-up rock stars to put on an annual concert to raise money for the “affected,” billed as “USAID-AID.” I’d watch the money close, though, given who’s in on this.