REPORT: Trump admin slashing over 1,500 positions from embattled agency, fired staffers leave with boxes

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From Fox News: The Trump administration is eliminating over a thousand positions at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), while also placing the majority of the remaining staff members on administration leave globally, just before midnight Sunday.

The Associated Press reported that it learned from the Trump administration that 1,600 posts would be eliminated after reviewing notices that were sent to USAID workers.

“As of 11:59 p.m. EST on Sunday, February 23, 2025, all USAID direct hire personnel, with the exception of designated personnel responsible for mission-critical functions, core leadership and/or specially designated programs, will be placed on administrative leave globally,” the notices read.

The Trump administration intends on leaving fewer than 300 staffers on the job, out of the current 8,000 contractors and direct hires.

The less than 300 remaining staff, along with an unknown number of the 5,000 locally hired international staff members abroad, will run the few life-saving programs that the administration said it intends to keep in place for the time being.

Many fired USAID employees were seen walking out of the office for the last time on Friday, carrying boxes with their personal belongings. A few liberal supporters lined the sidewalk to give them a “clap out.”

Some of the fire workers wrote defiant messages on their boxes.

“We are abandoning the world,” one lamented.

Elon Musk announced earlier this month that the building will be occupied by Customs and Border Protection.

The sign on the building was seen being covered with duct tape:

Under one taped-over sign, someone left a RIP poster and some flowers.

Fox News also reported Sunday: The downtown Washington, D.C., Ronald Reagan building will undergo a dramatic shift as U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) takes over the longtime headquarters of the Agency for International Development (USAID), Fox News Digital has confirmed.

“CBP has signed a license agreement to occupy approximately 390,000 usable square feet in the USAID tower,” a CBP spokesperson told Fox News Digital.

The news, which was originally reported by Politico, comes after a federal judge on Friday declined to keep in place a temporary block that was preventing President Donald Trump from removing all but a small number of USAID staffers, clearing the way for the administration to continue its dramatic cuts to federal departments, according to a report from the Associated Press.

According to a list of recipients, USAID has given a total of $164,749,304.99 to terrorist linked organizations.

Rep. Chip Roy (R-Tex.) share a diagram on Feb. 4 which revealed how the money flowed down to he Wuhan University.

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