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14 States Sue Trump, Musk, DOGE
14 States Sue
Trump, Musk, DOGE

14 States Sue Trump, Musk, DOGE

Coalition claims the president is violating the Constitution

(Newser) - Elon Musk's efforts to "delete" government agencies and fire thousands of workers is unconstitutional, a coalition of 14 states alleges in a lawsuit filed Thursday against Musk, his Department of Governmental Efficiency, and President Trump. New Mexico is leading the coalition of states, which claims the unelected billionaire'...

USAID Freeze Could Result in $500M of Spoiled Food

That's about how much is currently in transit or storage, waiting to be distributed

(Newser) - Among the disturbing tidbits in the USAID report from the inspector general who was promptly fired after issuing it : There's nearly $500 million worth of food sitting in ships, at ports, and in warehouses amid the USAID funding freeze instituted by the Trump administration, and it's at risk...

USAID Inspector General Fired After Warning on Aid Oversight

'Look what happens when you write a report critical of this administration: They fire you the next day'

(Newser) - The White House fired the inspector general for the US Agency for International Development on Tuesday, officials said, a day after his office warned that the Trump administration's dismantling of USAID had made it all but impossible to monitor $8.2 billion in unspent humanitarian funds. The White House...

Workers Turned Away From USAID Offices

'Just go," official told staffers who showed up for work after court order

(Newser) - Officials and federal officers turned away scores of US Agency for International Development staffers who showed up for work Monday at its Washington headquarters after a court temporarily blocked a Trump administration order that would have pulled all but a fraction of workers off the job worldwide. A front desk...

Judge Puts Limited Freeze on Trump's USAID Job Cuts

Hearing was held on lawsuit by federal workers unions

(Newser) - A federal judge announced after a hearing Friday that he'll enter a "very limited" temporary restraining order before midnight to keep the Trump administration from implementing parts of its plan to dismantle the US Agency for International Development. US District Judge Carl Nichols said his order "will...

USAID Shutdown Efforts Are 'Chaotic,' 'Tectonic'
USAID Shutdown Efforts
Are 'Chaotic,' 'Tectonic'
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USAID Shutdown Efforts Are 'Chaotic,' 'Tectonic'

US farmers to lose out on sales; patients stranded with devices, experimental drugs in their bodies

(Newser) - The Trump administration is intent on dismantling the US Agency for International Development, which delivers food, medicine, and other humanitarian aid to the world's poorest. The stop-work order on USAID, which is now under the purview of Marco Rubio's State Department, immediately halted the agency's disbursement of...

Rubio Plans to Take USAID From 10K Positions to 290

A few programs are spared for now, though employees say they can't get to funding

(Newser) - The Trump administration told the remaining senior officials of the US Agency for International Development on Thursday that all but 290 of its more than 10,000 positions will be cut. The employees who are left would administer the few life-saving programs that the administration said will remain in place...

Kristof: What's Unfolding at USAID Is 'Sickening'

New York Times columnist says the world's richest are hurting the world's poorest

(Newser) - The headline of Nicholas Kristof's New York Times column on what's happening to USAID crystallizes the issue in his view: "The World's Richest Men Take On the World's Poorest Children." Elon Musk has been gloating about gutting the US Agency for International Aid Development,...

Musk's DOGE Gains Access to Medicare System

'This is where the big money fraud is happening,' he says of work at Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

(Newser) - Elon Musk's access to the operations of the federal government appears to be only accelerating. On the heels of his Department of Government Efficiency gaining access —though it may be only "read-only" access —to a sensitive Treasury Department payment system:
  • Medicare/Medicaid: Representatives from DOGE have gotten
...

White House Is Canceling Politico Subscriptions

It all comes back to a conspiracy theory

(Newser) - A right-wing conspiracy theory that started spreading Wednesday claims that USAID, the federal agency in the crosshairs of Elon Musk and his DOGE staffers , has for years funneled millions of dollars to Politico and the AP. At a press conference that day, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt mentioned the...

Trump Will Place Almost All USAID Staff on Leave

Nearly all workers will be pulled off the job and out of the field, across the globe

(Newser) - As expected, the Trump administration announced Tuesday night that almost all USAID employees will be placed on administrative leave Friday night. Nearly all workers currently overseas will be pulled from the field and returned to the US within 30 days, other than those deemed essential, the AP reports. The official...

Democrats Are Blocked From USAID Office

Lawmakers address protesters outside, demanding Trump and Musk stop attacks on agency

(Newser) - Congressional Democrats who went to USAID's headquarters in Washington on Monday to oppose efforts to shut the agency down —as Elon Musk said he and President Trump will do—were denied entry. The group then addressed other protesters, saying Trump's actions are illegal and harmful to national...

Rubio: I'm Now the Acting Director of USAID

Democrats say Congress needs to approve any attempt to fold agency into State Department

(Newser) - Hours after Elon Musk boasted about throwing USAID "into the wood chipper" over the weekend. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he was in charge of the foreign aid agency. Rubio, speaking to reporters in El Salvador, said he is now the acting administrator of USAID but he has...

USAID Security Chiefs Who Refused Musk Are on Leave
Elon Musk:
Time for
USAID 'to Die'
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Elon Musk: Time for USAID 'to Die'

He says Trump has agreed to 'shut it down'

(Newser) - Elon Musk says it's time for USAID, the federal agency that oversees foreign aid to civilians, "to die." Musk's post on X came soon after reports that two of the agency's top security chiefs are on leave after allegedly refusing access to classified material to...

USAID Officials Put on Leave for Allegedly Flouting Trump Order

Details are not clear, but decision applies to 56 top officials

(Newser) - The top US aid and development agency is in disarray following the abrupt freeze on foreign aid issued by the State Department on Friday. Thousands of humanitarian, development, and security programs funded by the US had either halted their work or were in the process of doing so, and employees...

Watchdog: We Warned Biden on Gaza Pier, He Did It Anyway

USAID staffers had concerns that pier would undermine convincing Israel on other aid methods

(Newser) - President Biden ordered the construction of a temporary pier to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza earlier this year, even as some staffers for the US Agency for International Development expressed concerns that the effort would be difficult to pull off and undercut the effort to persuade Israel to open "...

In Places Scrubbed of Ebola, Virus Rears Its Head

Health officials warn Ebola's erratic spread is out of control

(Newser) - Just months ago, Doctors Without Borders was packing up its bags and leaving an Ebola-free region in Guinea; that site, Macenta, is now the hotbed site of 30 new cases, in what the AP reports is a sign of the virus' resurgence. Health officials are declaring, once again , that the...

American on Hunger Strike in Cuban Jail

Alan Gross has been jailed for 4 years, wants out

(Newser) - After four years cooling his heels in a Cuban prison, American Alan Gross has begun a hunger strike he says is a protest against his treatment by both Havana and Washington. Gross, 64, was arrested in 2009 while working for USAID as a sub-contractor to get Internet access to Cuba'...

US Starts Scrubbing Agent Orange From Vietnam

First direct contribution 'a little late': activist

(Newser) - For the first time since the Vietnam War ended, the US is getting its hands dirty in the effort to clear Agent Orange out of Vietnam. Washington is forking over $41 million to support the removal of the herbicide that caused, by Vietnam's count, 150,000 kids to be...

Obama's 'Boring' Aid Is Saving Lives in Africa
Obama's 'Boring' Aid
Is Saving Lives in Africa
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Obama's 'Boring' Aid Is Saving Lives in Africa

Nicholas Kristof: US emphasis on agriculture isn't sexy, but it's effective

(Newser) - President Obama deserves credit for a great foreign aid success, writes Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times , but it's a safe bet you haven't heard of it. That's because it's happening not in a war zone or some sexy locale but on small farms in...

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