Thursday, January 30, 2025

57 USAID employees suspended for defying Executive Order

Dozens of federal officials suspended for defying Trump's executive orders

Dozens of federal officials, mostly top staff members at the U.S. Agency for International Development, have been suspended for trying to interfere with President Donald Trump's freeze on foreign aid.

The workers, estimated to total 57, were placed on leave on Monday for "trying to circumvent his executive order on freezing all foreign aid," according to a report in the Daily Mail.

They are "career government officials."

"We have identified several actions within USAID that appear to be designed to circumvent the president's executive orders and the mandate from the American people," explained Jason Gray, now the new acting administrator of the agency.

Read more at WND

Personally, I think they should be fired.

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