Members of President Donald Trump’s cabinet are getting ready to take on a bigger role in limiting the influence of Department of Government Efficiency employees on the federal government once Elon Musk steps back, news agency Reuters reported. DOGE was formed when Trump became president and has been led by Musk. The department’s primary mission…
Three US aid workers were laid off while in Myanmar helping the rescue and recovery from the country’s massive earthquake, a former senior staffer said, as the Trump administration’s dismantling of foreign aid affects its disaster response. After travelling to the Southeast Asian nation, the three officials were told late this week they would be…
President Donald Trump’s administration told Congress on Friday it would cut nearly all remaining jobs at the US Agency for International Development and shut the agency, even as Trump promised that the US would provide assistance to Myanmar following a devastating earthquake. Humanitarian aid experts expressed alarm at the new cuts to an agency whose…
The dismantling of the US Agency for International Development by billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency likely violated the Constitution, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday as he indefinitely blocked DOGE from making further cuts to the agency. The order requires the Trump administration to restore email and computer access to all employees of…
As images of an email sent by USAID to employees asking them to destroy classified documents and records went viral, the White House said the documents were old and dubbed the reports “fake news hysteria”. The email spurred a fresh legal challenge as two unions representing federal workers approached the court seeking a restraining order…
The US has officially cancelled 83 per cent of US Agency for International Development (USAID) programmes following a six-week review, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Monday. In a tweet, Rubio said the 5,200 cancelled contracts spent tens of billions of dollars “in ways that did not serve/harm the core interests of the US”….
A senior official with the US Agency for International Development in an email on Sunday warned that the Trump administration’s dismantling of the agency will result in unnecessary deaths — only to email his staff less than 30 minutes later to say that he had been placed on leave. Nicholas Enrich, USAID’s acting assistant administrator…
Trump’s sweeping government workforce cuts: Over 20,000 federal employees laid off, including 7,000 IRS workers, 5,600 USAID staff, key officials fired from EPA, TSA, FEMA, and more—full list of affected agencies and top officials The Trump administration is implementing one of the largest government workforce reductions in recent history, laying off over 20,000 federal employees…
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Galina Timchenko, publisher and chief executive of the investigative newsroom Meduza, thought she was ready for anything. The site, based in Latvia and known for its fearless reporting on Vladimir V. Putin’s regime, had prepared for cyberattacks, legal threats and even poisonings of its reporters. One thing she hadn’t anticipated: defunding by the U.S. government….