Trump FIRES Almost 10,000 USAID Staff, Keeping Only 294 People!

LET THIS SINK IN!

President Trump and the Trump Administration has just fired nearly 10,000 people from the USAID (or as I like to call it, US-AIDS) payroll:

97% of the staff at USAID is being cut from the federal agency.

Sounds like a good start. pic.twitter.com/stMfphljD4

— Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) February 6, 2025

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 President Trump fires 97% of USAID staff following DOGE audit.

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Reuters confirms the report and states that Marco Rubio is directly involved:

President Donald Trump’s administration plans to keep fewer than 300 staff at the U.S. Agency for International Development out of the agency’s worldwide total of more than 10,000, four sources told Reuters on Thursday.
Washington’s primary humanitarian aid agency has been a target of a government reorganization program spearheaded by businessman Elon Musk, a close Trump ally, since the Republican president took office on January 20.

The four sources familiar with the plan said only 294 staff at the agency would be allowed to keep their jobs.
With Trump and Musk, the world’s wealthiest man, levying false accusations that its staff were criminals and unsubstantiated allegations that funds were stolen, dozens of USAID staff have been put on leave, hundreds of internal contractors have been laid off and life-saving programs around the globe have been left in limbo.

The administration announced on Tuesday it was going to put on leave all directly hired USAID employees globally, and recall thousands of personnel working overseas.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio had said the administration was identifying and designating programs that would be exempted from the sweeping stop-work orders, which have threatened efforts around the globe to stop the spread of disease, prevent famine and otherwise alleviate poverty.

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This reminds me of an old joke….

How many people does it take to screw in a lightbulb at the Dept. of USAIDS?

Apparently 294 to do the actual work, and 9,706 to launder the money!  (Allegedly, of course.)

I kid, I kid.

I’m sure they were all doing very fine and very noble work.