USAID Workforce Slashed From 10,000 to Under 300 as Elon Musk’s DOGE Decimates Agency

Elon musk Government skill department (Dose) A group of US agencies (USAID) with a group of US agencies (USAID) More than 10,000 Wired and current USAID has dropped below 300 by an internal email seen by several employees.

The move is only 12 people in the agency’s Africa bureau and eight people in its Asia Bureau, about 290 overall. Some additional foreign workers will be retained, two USAID employees said, but it is not clear.

“There are more poor people in Asia than this, and our presence has always helped to resist China’s influence,” a USAID employee said that the agency was not approved to speak publicly because of the fear of retaliation.

Tuesday, USAID staff Received an email Except for the “nominated staff responsible for the mission-critical event”, all the staff will be kept on the administrative leave from February on Friday, February. The notice was then published on the agency’s website. It also mentions that the workers of the agency located abroad will return to the United States.

The USAID and the US State Department did not immediately respond to any request to comment immediately.

It was not an unexpected step. The USAID was a special goal in the cribers of the Musk, including Stabilionaire Calling it X and a “criminal organization” Proud About “fed it through a wooden chipper.”

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President Donald Trump was similarly hostile to the agency. One of his first steps after taking charge last month was to sign an executive order to frost foreign aid, most of which were applied by USAID. In the me Report Wednesday.

Although the administration subsequently made it clear that the “life -saving” work would be allowed to continue under the emergency waiver program, the agency’s chaotic occupation made it impossible. As wired Report Unable to access antiratroviral drugs in countries like Haiti on Monday – though this work was most technically given a discount.

Meanwhile, some current employees abroad have not yet been notified of the latest changes in the agency. A USAID worker living abroad said, “The official communication I have received is from the people to facilitate the local embassy’s State Department, asking if we are leaving so that they can renovate our homes,” said a USAID worker living abroad.