All USAID employees will be dismissed by September 30 - Reuters
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All USAID employees will be dismissed by September 30. The US State Department will take over USAID programs, but employees will not be automatically transferred.
The Department of Effective Public Administration announced that all employees of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) will be dismissed by September 30 - by the end of the fiscal year. This is reported by Reuters, writes UNN.
Details
It is noted that all positions that are not required by law are subject to dismissal. In the near future, all USAID staff will receive emails informing them of their dismissal. At the same time, employees will be allowed to choose the date of dismissal — July 1 or September 2.
The statement also states that over the next three months, the US State Department will take over those USAID programs that are considered "programs of vital and strategic assistance." However, employees of the department will not be automatically transferred to work for the State Department — only those employees who pass a "separate and independent hiring process" will be allowed to work on USAID tasks.
Addition
Earlier, Trump called USAID an "incompetent and corrupt" organization and announced a large-scale reduction of 10,000 agency employees and an immediate suspension of almost all of its aid programs.
The agency spends about $40 billion – about 0.6% of total annual US government spending – on humanitarian aid, much of which goes to health programs. The vast majority of USAID's money is spent in Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and Europe, where it is mostly used for humanitarian efforts in Ukraine, the media notes.
