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.
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.
And Musk has been the target of protest anger as the beneficiaries of the Deep State see the gravy train derailed.
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.
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.
The agency may have tried to color-revolution Hungarian leadership.
There is no part of the world that is safe from its woke priorities and leftist dogma.
It is good to see that insubordination will not be tolerated in Trump’s second term.
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