The employees of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) left Washington's offices, DC, for offices for the last time on Friday, with some portable boxes with the messages that appear to be addressed to President Donald TrumpWhich reduces the agency's workforce.
Thousands of employees were notified a few weeks ago on the suspended separation, while a federal judge on Friday wiped the way for the Trump administration to follow the collective workers because it aims to eliminate waste throughout the federal bureaucracy.
“We are abandoning the world,” read one message on a box transferred by a broad smile employee leaving the US Agency's Office of Humanitarian Agency for International Development.
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Another smiling employee box had a more optimistic tone, with reading her message: “You can take out humanity from abroad From usaid But you cannot get humanity out of humanitarian doctors. “
The United States Agency for International Development recently carried the boxes with a letter while they were working and commended by former US International Development Agency and supporters during the sending of offices outside the US International Development Agency in Washington, DC, on February 21, 2025. (Reuters/Brian Snyder)
Employees were received outside the offices by a small group of good fishing supporters and former workers at the United States Agency for International Development who carried banners, “We love the American Agency for International Development” and “Thank you for your service, USAID”.
Other workers were seen leaving offices crying.
The Trump administration plans to equip the agency and intends to leave less than 300 employees in the job from 8,000 direct employees and contractors.
They, along with an unknown number of 5,000 international employees who have been locally appointed abroad, will run the few life -saving programs that the administration says intends to continue at the present time.
The United States Agency for International Development recently opened fire on the offices of the US Agency for International Development in Washington, DC, on February 21, 2025. (Reuters/Brian Snyder)
The American Agency for International Development came for special criticisms under the Ministry of Government Efficiency, which is led by Elon Musk (DOGE) due to alleged alleged spending.
For example, Joni Ernst, R-IOWA, Senate Duji, in a field, recently I published a list One of the projects and programs that the US Agency for International Development has helped to finance it over the years, including 20 million dollars to produce the Sesame Street offer in Iraq.
Several other examples Doubted spending at the United States Agency for International Development has been revealed, including more than $ 900,000 to a “Gaza -based Terrorism Association” called Bayader Association for Environment and Development and a 1.5 million dollar program from the scheduled “advanced diversity and fairnessand Inclusion in the workplace in Serbia and business societies. “
Trump moved to the agency's intestine after a 90 -day stop was imposed on external aid. He was also appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs Marco Rubio As a prosecutor for the US Agency for International Development.
The governmental employee unions had filed a lawsuit against the suspension of collective workers, but on Friday, the American boycott judge, Karl Nichols, filed a temporary restriction issued at the beginning of the case and refused to issue a long -term order to keep employees in their publications.
Tear employees leave the building of the international armed forces in Washington, DC (Reuters/Brian Snyder)
Nichols, who was appointed by President Trump during his first term, wrote that since the affected employees did not go through an administrative dispute, he may not have a jurisdiction to hear the issue of unions or consider their wider arguments that the administration violated the United States' constitution by closing an agency It was established and funded by Congress.
The judge said that the case is a judicial jurisdiction, and that the courts of federal provinces should not be involved at this stage, and that the issue should be dealt with administratively under federal employment laws.
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In short, because the court probably lacks a jurisdiction over the claims of the plaintiffs, they did not prove the possibility of success on the foundations'The judgment s, partially.
“The court concludes that the prosecutors have not proven that they or their members will suffer from an irreplaceable injury in the absence of a judicial order; their claims are likely to succeed in one foundation; or that the balance of difficulties or public interest prefers strongly a judicial order.”
The left, the United States Agency retired for the International Development Year, Julie Hanson Swanson, joins supporters of the United States Agency for International Development outside the US Agency for the US Development for Humanitarian Affairs in Washington, on Friday, February 21, 2025. (Manuel Balce Center)
The unions can now go to the Federal Appeal Court in Washington, DC, to relief emergency to re -raise their place, or perhaps a preliminary judicial order.
This report contributed to this report, Bill News, Bill Maires, Andrew Mark Miller, Aubbari Sibadi, Derdari Hevi, Morgan Phillips and Emma Coleon as well as Reuters.
