US State Department Recalls All USAID Staffers from Foreign Assignments
Even more USAID staffers have also been placed on administrative leave.
The sweep of Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency Team through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has been rapid and exposed vast levels of waste, fraud, and leftist abuse.
48 vCPUs are throttled curating the USAID grant network for every single EIN, will take a while (~12 hours). Which is fine, it gives @watilo time to prettify it in the morning.
Blame the federal government for creating such computational complexity.
But here's a teaser – this… pic.twitter.com/a8v2ERxxXC
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) February 4, 2025
The leftist staffers, pork-stuffed NGOs, subsidized “journalists,” and the politicians who are supported by them are squealing. The young heroes of DOGE are being doxxed.
The libs are doxxing Musk's DOGE team on Blue Sky.
Address, phone numbers, photos, everything!
They're starting an intimidation campaign. pic.twitter.com/TSjhoO5trp
— Ranjit Singh (@AuthorSingh) February 3, 2025
And Musk has been the target of protest anger as the beneficiaries of the Deep State see the gravy train derailed.
At an anti-@elonmusk protest in D.C., Democrat politicians and their supporters call for Musk to immediately be imprisoned to stop the President’s efforts to end waste and fraud of American taxpayer funds. pic.twitter.com/PhVbMi5bXX
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) February 4, 2025
As DOGE scrutiny continued on USAID, Secretary of State Marco Rubio noted that the agency was run by his department, so he would be the acting director.
And Rubio has been busy. Between cutting America First deals with Panama and El Salvador, he has turned his attention to USAID.
He began by recalling all staffers and their families back to this country.
They need to be back by Saturday.
The U.S. State Department has begun working to assist in recalling all USAID staff who are on foreign assignments worldwide, according to multiple sources familiar with the effort.
The department is aiming to recall all USAID employees, including family members, to the United States by Saturday, sources told ABC News.
The move comes a day after Elon Musk, the head of the Department of Government Efficiency, said he was “in the process” of “shutting down” the agency with the backing of President Donald Trump, as part of efforts to trim the size of the federal government and eliminate waste.
There are an estimated 1,500 to 2,000 USAID employees impacted. Staffers are complaining about the order already.
The abrupt recall means employees would have just days to figure out where to go, how to arrange pet care, take children out of school, allow their spouses to make arrangements, and plan for their belongings to be sent behind them, for example. Meanwhile, withdrawing over a thousand foreign service officers and their families will likely be extremely costly, multiple diplomatic sources tell NPR.
“It will be logistically challenging, tremendously expensive and undignified,” said one USAID employee who was not authorized to speak publicly. “Many folks have kids in school, for example.”
“The last time we tried to do this was during COVID, and it was impossible to do that quickly,” said Susan Reichle, a retired senior USAID official.
The news gets better. Even more USAID officials began getting notices Tuesday evening that they were being put on administrative leave, expected to be part of a widespread effort to cut staffers out of the system.
Multiple officials shared with CNN the notice from the acting deputy administrator, Peter Marocco. The notices went to officials based overseas and in Washington, DC.
“You will remain on administrative leave with pay until otherwise notified,” the notice states.
“During the period that you are on administrative leave you are not to enter USAID premises, access USAID systems, or attempt to use your position or authority with USAID in any way without my prior permission or prior permission of a supervisor in your chain of command,” Marocco says in the letter.
The notices come as the Trump administration has begun dismantling the agency and frozen almost all foreign aid. A day earlier, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced he would be acting administrator of USAID, confirming the de-facto takeover of the humanitarian agency by the State Department.
The move looks like it includes all USAID direct hires.
🚨 #BREAKING: ALL USAID direct hires are being placed on leave starting Friday at 11:59pm ET, per the agency’s website
Elon and Trump are wasting NO TIME gutting this leftist slush fund for corruption
MORE Democrat protests are expected tomorrow in DC 🤣🔥 pic.twitter.com/qJJOuL4aW9
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) February 5, 2025
Many American taxpayers and the normal citizens of nations coping with USAID influence of their culture and governance are likely rejoicing at these developments.
The scale of USAID shenanigans in foreign countries appears to be staggering.
USAID may have interfered with elections in Brazil.
If USAID Did Not Exist, Bolsonaro Would Still Be President Of Brazil pic.twitter.com/Uat3Kr8RKY
— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) February 4, 2025
The agency may have tried to color-revolution Hungarian leadership.
More USAID shenanigans…
In early 2023, one year after Orban was elected, USAID tried to seed a color revolution in Hungary.
Here is Samantha Powers openly discussing it.
Relevant articles:https://t.co/0J1a6JupWM via @TheLastRefuge2https://t.co/pLeS1UJc1v https://t.co/t71fj1mtqB pic.twitter.com/SUf8Etf1UF
— Golden Advice 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲 (@RichardStiller4) February 3, 2025
There is no part of the world that is safe from its woke priorities and leftist dogma.
USAID’s corrupt abuse of taxpayers is worse than realized, lawmakers warn. We found it’s a Democrat slush fund that wasted $20M to recreate Sesame Street in Iraq; $9M meant for Syria likely went to Al-Qaeda; $15M on “contraceptives” for the Taliban (it doesn’t believe in that);… pic.twitter.com/ujetlTaiD0
— Elizabeth MacDonald (@LizMacDonaldFOX) February 4, 2025
It is good to see that insubordination will not be tolerated in Trump’s second term.
Marco Rubio on USAID: “The goal was to reform it. But now we have rank insubordination. Their basic attitude is we don’t work for anyone. We work for ourselves. No agency of government can tell us what to do.” pic.twitter.com/yFpnaXMQNc
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) February 4, 2025
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It is neither written in the Constitution or enshrined in the Holy Court rulings of Democrat Judges that the Federal Government cannot have a work force reduction.
Frankly, I am ok with across the board cuts, starting at the highest ranks (with the highest salary and perk packages) and working our way down.
That chart looked for complex and familiar.
The familiar – the Biden Crime Family’s complex group of shell/phony corporations which produced nothing and were used only to shift ill-gotten money around.
Here are plenty of reasons why. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEaT08ysjT4
“withdrawing over a thousand foreign service officers and their families will likely be extremely costly” Ah, but much, much less costly than leaving this ripoff in place.
A thousand foreign service officers? That is a lot. Yes, end the boondoggle. While some have families and spouses, a lot of them are likely single.
Who exactly are these USAID employees who were not authorized to speak publicly?
I wonder why they are not speaking out since they are going to be fired anyways.
Use the return flights that are shipping the illegals out.
I should send DOGE my resume.
To be clear, Rubio said he is acting director but has delegated it to someone else. I can only imagine he didn’t specify to protect that person from the doxx campaign.
The Democrats were outraged when Trump won the election, then a little more outraged on Jan 20th when he was sworn in.
Then he signs some executive orders and they become even more outraged. The next day he does something else and they become even more outraged than the day before.
Outraged, more outraged, more and more outraged, and then really, really outraged.
Apparently there is no upper limit on their Outrage Meter.
As Bernie noted, it is an outrage on top of an outrage!
https://giphy.com/gifs/donald-trump-bernie-sanders-impeachment-U85XCNE0bFZGyvlkMZ
Too bad the voters elected him back in! What does that say about the Dems!
How would he describe being the top money getter from Big Pharma?
Losing access to the largely unaccountable (till now) deep pockets of Uncle Sugar gotta hurt. Especially when partisan fellow travelers were ensuring their comrades get what seem to be sinecure like payments. Rooting through the budgets of the various agencies to find the grift, the graft and cut off the spigot has the d/prog shaken. Plus it is being done not just in real time but in full view of the taxpaying public the vast majority of whom are growing more militant in favor of even greater cuts.
They are using data mining and analytic tools that are commonplace in the private sector (banking, cards, etc)
In fact, the application of such tech against data related to how the common plebe earns and spends his money is mandated by regulation.
Seeing their reaction to it’s application against their grift hog is priceless.
Yep! Our bureaucracy seems to fancy themselves as a sort of neo clerisy above the commoners. What they really are, as the wider public is now discovering, is group of grifters who set into motion a kind of perpetual self licking ice cream cone of graft and corruption.
Their ideological fellow travelers keep harping about the danger of deporting the illegal aliens who ‘pick our crops, clean hotels, wash dishes’. No worries, these over credentialed goons will soon be available as replacement labor in need of employment.
In that case, I’ll stop the practice of tipping the maid.
Nutcase Al Green announced he is introducing Articles of Impeachment so there is that. I’m confused because he said they are for what he is doing and what he might do in the future so I guess Green is clairvoyant or something.
Green said specifically it’s for “ethnic cleansing of Gaza.” I nearly ruined my keyboard when I read that.
Preemptive impeachments to go with preemptive pardons?
Maybe the cranial explosion phase?
The complexity is not unintentional, it appears it is to hide ultimate recipients, including Islamic terrorists as was determined by the USAID in a report that came out in January.
The vile Dhimmi-crat crime organization is a racketeering outfit masquerading as a political party, It should be hit with a slew of RICO indictments.
“It will be logistically challenging, tremendously expensive and undignified,” said one USAID employee who was not authorized to speak publicly. “Many folks have kids in school, for example.”
Military families in particular are surely feeling tremendous sympathy for these USAID families (many with children in school!) for being abruptly uprooted simply because somebody higher up the food chain says so.
*snort*
Only people who have never had to live in the real world are grieving over the plight of these USAID staffers.
Oh, if it will be tremendously expensive, then we need to cut the costs. Thanks for warning us, former USAID employee.
So any of you wonder if any of this money finds its way through along list of proxies into Democrat campaigns coffers?
Doesn’t even need to end up in their direct campaign coffers but all that money buys an aweful lot of friendship in all the right media places!!
So 13% of that 70 billion in funding actually gets to intended target …
… so, nah, I don’t really wonder whether the rest goes to support Democrats, line the pockets of their supporters and buy off the media and other net influencers.
I only wonder which people got how much and which ones violated laws that they can be indicted on.
So did Kamala REALLY raise 1.4 billion or did she just raid the federal budget?
DOGE, please pick up the red courtesy phone….
Nope. I feel pretty certain that lots of it did given the Byzantine structure of mutually reinforced grift. Even limiting it to individual donations that’s a bunch of hands in the till.
Perhaps if the Democrats ever return from the wilderness they’ll be less Stalinistic with public office.
It’s like expecting that a dog might stop licking it’s a$$hole
Petty tyrants gonna cosplay tyrannical
That would require a change that democrats are, quite frankly, incapable of doing on their own.
They won’t be trustworthy. With so many other people to choose from, why even give them a look?
While I completely agree with abolishing USAID, I hope the Administration will have some compassion for the families overseas, particularly innocent kids who are seniors in high school with only a few months until graduation. Don’t do this to them.
No one considered that I had children in any level of schooling, difficulty of moving, my spouse’s job, and a history of other inconveniences when the military decided that it was time for me or my comrades in arms to PCS.
In fact, there were two very distinct comments made to me.
“These are orders and not suggestions. STFU and pack your shit”
“If we wanted you to have a family, we would have issued them to you in Boot camp.”
I have no empathy for any of them. Embrace the suck.
The Federal government doesn’t owe the seniors what you support. Sorry but their parents screwed up.
Are you kidding me? If they send out a memo asking USAID employees to let them know if they have a HS senior this year, what % of them do you think will answer affirmatively? What % will answer honestly?
“particularly innocent kids who are seniors in high school ”
In that case, if the family finds this so important, Mom can stay on in Slobovia or Kenya for a few months to let those students graduate, because I fail to see why teenagers’ feelings should be dictating policy.
Military kids are quite familiar with the uprooting process, and military families have coping mechanisms. I’ll bet USAID folks can manage that too.
The letter says special provisions might be made for exactly that case. That’s more consideration than a lot of those USAID people gave the people in those countries, and here, as they worked to subvert local cultures.
Isn’t USAID basically supposed to give money to third world countries? I wouldn’t take my children with me and put them into school there.
Also I don’t think most other countries have the same educational setup as the US. So the amount of high school seniors abroad is basically zero.
What percentage of USAID employees overseas would you estimate to have children with them who are High School Seniors?
Where was the equivalent condemnation when the lying liars shut down schools for Rona? Nope, the days of ‘compassion’ are on hold. The old niceties are gone. The totalitarian minded wokiesta leftists threw those norms and traditions out the flipping window without a second thought during Rona. When they meekly concede defeat and throw themselves on our mercy willing to accept whatever punishment we choose to deliver… then we can discuss bringing back the old niceties but not until then.
Watch X and the news. Take note of who is whining and why.
The piggies that are squealing the loudest are the fattest ones that have been at the trough the longest.
Time to make bacon.
There should be prosecutions from this. Wonder if military prosecutions are possible?
What they don’t say is that they can ask for an extension of time to address family issues-they just don’t want anyone to know that–had they been smart, they would have seen the writing on the wall and begun making plans
Dear USAID staffer in whatever foreign country you’re in: Please stay there. Don’t come back, but rest assured that you are staying there on your own dime.
Would it not be more accurate to use the headline “US State Department Recalls All USAID Staffers from their Tax-Funded Junkets”?