USAID workers scramble for answers after Trump pulls almost all of them off the job worldwide
WASHINGTON (AP) — U. S. aid staffers around the world scrambled Wednesday for answers and started to pack up households or pull their children from school after a sudden Trump administration order that yanked almost all of them off the job and out of the field. In Washington, Democratic lawmakers and other supporters of the U. S. Agency for International Development planned rallies to protest the dismantling of the independent government agency established six decades ago. USAID has been one...
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