In an email to #USAID staff, Jeremy Lewin, a #DOGE ofcl who took over running the day-to-day ops at USAID from Pete Marocco on March 20, said the RIFs would go into effect either on July 1 or Sept 2.
This comes as the #Trump admin wraps up the dismantling of the 64-year-old USAID, having terminated some 5,200 contracts, & moves forward with its plan to shift the remaining portion of its work to the #State Dept.
The #Trump admin is terminating nearly all of the remaining 900 employees of the #USAID, in a final reduction-in-force #RIF.
Virtually no one will be spared, not even political appointees, acc/to 2 snr USAID ofcls….
Staff were ordered to leave "the front office" by 1PM on Fri for reasons that are not clear, the ofcls said. But they may still be asked to continue working for a few months.
#Musk #DOGE #Aid #geopolitics #SoftPower
https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/03/28/g-s1-56968/usaid-terminates-nearly-all-its-remaining-employees
It has now been three and a half weeks since Israel imposed a complete blockade on all #aid into #gaza, despite daily efforts by humanitarians to secure fresh access, they said in an update from the shattered enclave.
#CrimesAgainstHumanity
#warcrimes
#genocide
Report 
UN News MAR-26 #press
(prime source)
…An earlier version of the deal, which #Ukraine agreed to in principle before #Zelensky visited the White House last month, had terms that appeared more favourable to Ukraine. It proposed a joint investment fund w/Ukraine contributing 50% of proceeds from future profits of state-owned natural resources.
Zelensky’s visit on Feb 28 ended w/ #Trump berating him in the Oval Office, later followed by several days during which Washington suspended all intelligence support & military #aid to Ukraine.
#Ukraine says #mineral deal not final; summary shows #US demands more income
The latest U.S. proposal would require Kyiv to send Washington ALL profit from a fund controlling Ukrainian #resources until Ukraine had *repaid* all American wartime #aid, PLUS INTEREST, according to the summary, reviewed by Reuters.
#extortion #MafiaState #geopolitics #Trump #StandWithUkraine
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-suggests-temporary-administration-ukraine-end-war-2025-03-28/
Tell me this is not all at the direction of #putin. The #Trump administration has terminated more than 5,300 #grants and #contracts managed by the U.S. Agency for International Development #USAID worth more than $27 billion, according to a document obtained by POLITICO. https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000195-d4ba-dc7d-add5-f6fe93e40000 #foreign #aid #statedepartment #budget #vaccines #food #healthcare #HIV #AIDS
Multiple sources at #FSA who could not speak publicly for fear of #retribution said they were blindsided by the news.
Logistical challenges aside, the role of the office of Federal #Student #Aid as the administrator of the #StudentLoan portfolio is protected by #law. It's not clear how these responsibilities could be #legally moved w/o a vote of #Congress. [not that #Trump cares]
The federal #StudentLoan portfolio — which includes about $1.6T in loans for ~43M borrowers — is currently overseen by the #Education Dept's office of Federal #Student #Aid (#FSA). That office has been gutted by the recent raft of buyouts, early retirements & last week's broad reduction-in-force [#RIF].
It was not clear, based on #Trump's announcement, how or if the remaining employees & expertise at FSA would be transferred to the SBA.
Pregnant women and mothers with infants in the Gaza Strip are relying on health handbooks promoted by Japan for vital information on child care. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/21/japan/society/gaza-japan-backed-maternal-handbooks/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #pregnancy #aid #gaza #israelhamaswar #palestinians #health #children #women039sissues
The work on the #abducted #children by the #Yale School of #PublicHealth #Humanitarian #Research Lab was frozen when #Trump signed an #ExecutiveOrder in late January halting almost all #ForeignAid. Since then, #MarcoRubio & an official under him, #PeteMarocco, have ended the vast majority of foreign #aid contracts, including the one to the Yale lab.
#PeteMarocco, the #State Dept ofcl who oversaw the #Trump admin’s efforts to dismantle the main govt agency distributing foreign #aid, announced in an email on Tues night that he would be replaced at the agency by 2 officials who had been involved in making the cuts.
Marocco said in the email that he would remain at State as director of #ForeignAid, but that 2 other officials would handle what remains of the #USAID.
2 Officials Who Helped Dismantle #US #Aid Agency Are Named as Its New Leaders
Secretary of #State #MarcoRubio said he had canceled 83% of #USAID’s programs. A federal judge found that efforts to shutter the agency were likely #unconstitutional.
#law #USpol #Trump #Musk #DOGE #ForeignPolicy #SoftPower #TrumpPurge
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/us/politics/usaid-doge-leadership.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=1B3ACA71-70A6-4630-8DE3-5A77E2B20013
Despite Elon Musk and President Donald Trump's claims that U.S. aid cuts aren't causing harm, shutting down vital programs like PEPFAR and USAID in South Sudan is already killing children. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/03/19/world/us-aid-cuts-are-deadly/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #usaid #donaldtrump #elonmusk #us #ebola #doge #aid #southsudan #africa
A U.S. federal judge has indefinitely stopped President Trump’s dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, saying the effort is “likely unconstitutional.”
https://flip.it/qeKEWX
#USAID #Trump #US #Aid #DOGE #Government
Migrants detained in Panama expressed fear of returning to their countries.
“They will execute me without hesitation,” one texted.
“I am LGBT. My country harass these people. I cannot live a normal life in my country,” said another.
Trump’s #extortion of Ukraine
#Trump privately made clear to aides a minerals deal with #Ukraine won’t be enough to restart #aid & #intelligence sharing
He wants to change #Zelenskyy’s attitude, officials said, including making #concessions by giving up #territory to #Russia. Trump also wants Zelenskyy to move toward #elections, & possibly toward stepping down as his country’s leader, the officials said.
The #Americans dismantled a transport platform of several hectares at the #Rzeszow #airbase, which was installed there back in 2021 to accommodate #military cargo arriving in #Poland and then transporting it to Ukraine.
#Trump is even having the airbase abilities to transport #weapons through Poland removed to assure that #aid to #Ukraine can no longer move through.
Dismantling concrete slabs, warehousing.
The #US has no intention of helping Ukraine again.
