After many court orders attempting to force the reinstatement of USAID, the Trump Administration just issued a final memo to remaining staffers telling them they’re FIRED as part of a merger with the Department of State.
The U.S. State Department has announced they are CLOSING USAID, and told practically all remaining staffers they are FIRED
“All non-statutory positions at USAID will be eliminated.”
Rubio, Musk, and Trump were able to accomplish this by merging USAID with State and subsequently eliminating it from within.
“As Secretary Rubio has said, following congressional consultations, the State Department intends to assume responsibility for many of USAID’s functions and its ongoing programming… Accordingly, the Department will seek to retire USAID’s independent operation, consistent with applicable law.”
“As part of that process, substantially all non-statutory positions at USAID will be eliminated. As a result, USAID personnel globally will be subject to a consolidated Reduction-In-Force (“RIF”) action.”
This is some beautiful creativity. The courts said USAID had to be revived, but they never said anything about it merging with the State Department and getting deleted anyway.