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Trump's administration is pulling almost all USAID workers off the job worldwide

apnews.com /article/trump-usaid-layoffs-7e0a159d8a419c4c9388ab02e8259f23

Summary

Trump is withdrawing nearly all USAID workers worldwide, effectively dismantling the agency.

Staff must return within 30 days unless deemed essential, while foreign aid programs, including security assistance and disease response, are halted.

Critics warn the move undermines U.S. influence and violates congressional authority. The American Foreign Service Association is preparing legal action.

The shutdown leaves billions in aid stranded, disrupts global projects, and forces employees into abrupt relocations with limited support.

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the era of 'land of the free, home of the brave' is over. kleptocracy reigns now in the shadow of the impending fascist regime.
the united states was already in a free fall from decency, it has reached terminal velocity.
Broken clock. This should've happened several presidents ago. It's a shame that Trump will get credit for maybe the best foreign policy decision in modern US politics
- This is probably the most idiotic take I've seen on this. USAID is a huge soft power in geopolitics for the U.S., and puts out a lot of essential services that peoplearound the world rely on now.. But more importantly, the issue at hand is that the president doesn't have the power to just shutter institutions in the government willy nilly. This is a constitutional crisis, and you're acting like it's a genius move on his part.
  
  I would've given kudos to Bush, Obama, Trump(1), or Biden if they did this. The only one calling this a "genius move" is you, it's just logical.
  America should not be the world police. We never should've been in the international situation we are now. A literally uncountable amount of money spend over the past few decades for what? American poverty is higher than ever, our infrastructure is worse than ever, and American perception abroad is worse than ever. All this dispite bankrupting ourselves to help countries that don't like us and topple regimes that we don't like. Humanitarianism.
  "Soft power," fuck off, I don't want hundreds of billions of black dollars being spent to undermine the sovereignty and merit of foreign countries.
- https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4295094/posts
  
  Ugh! Disgusting source. I'm sorry I didn't vet that before posting it.
  https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/free-republic/
  Facts are facts, regardless: "It has also emerged that nefarious activities by USAID were well documented across the globe.
  There are reports that USAID built a fake Cuban Twitter platform called ZunZuneo, designed to lure young users and slowly feed them anti-government content to spark protests and was funded in secret through shell companies.
  The plan collapsed when exposed in 2014.
  USAID was accused of funding regime change in Venezuela after it poured millions into opposition groups trying to overthrow the leaders of that country, President Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro.
  It trained activists, bankrolled anti-government media, and was linked to the failed 2002 coup against President Chávez.
  In 2014, USAID and the National Endowment for Democracy poured money into opposition groups and media in Ukraine.
  Other countries where it was accused of meddling in political affairs include Bolivia, Haiti and Afghanistan."
- You're right, and anyone from lemmy.world is fucking uninformed (with rare exception).

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