The US Agency for International Development will decrease from 10,000 jobs to less than 300 jobs

• The American Agency for International Development will reduce almost all employees, which reduces the workforce from more than 10,000 employees to 290.
• Trump criticized the US International Development Agency for being a waste and supporting liberal causes.
• The United States Agency for International Development spent $ 32.5 billion in 2024, focusing on health and humanitarian aid.

Federal workers sue to stop the dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development, which faces discounts for all its employees, which exceeds almost 10,000 by Friday.

Randy Chester, Vice President of the US Foreign Service Association in the United States of America, told a press conference on Thursday announcing a lawsuit against President Donald Trump and his administration members at a press conference on Thursday, announcing President Donald Trump and members of his administration that Looking for restless relief to stop the cuts.

He said: “The rest of the service will be subjected and an administrative leave, suspended, but we assume that there will be a reduction.”

“The entire region in sub-Saharan Africa will leave with 12 employees-or less,” told Business Insider.

The Trump administration’s transfer to the intestine of the Foreign Aid Agency will stop the contracts run by the US Agency for International Development abroad.

On Tuesday evening, the United States Agency for International Development announced that it will put almost all of its employees on an administrative vacation that starts on Friday at 11:59 pm, with exceptions for people who suffer from “exceptional circumstances”, Foreign Minister Marco Rubio. The United States Agency for International Development said it would arrange travel with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs within 30 days.

“We are not trying to be turbulent of people’s personal lives, and we are not punitive here, but this is the only way that we were able to cooperate from the American Agency for International Development,” Rubio, the agency’s representative director, told the agency. dominican republic.

This comes yet Donald Trump and Elon Musk Both attacked the agency as it was a waste of liberal reasons, as Musk described it as a “criminal organization” on X.

The American Federation of Government Employees, a union representing about 800,000 federal workers, filed a lawsuit with the American Foreign Service Association on Thursday, and the name of President Donald Trump, Rubio, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessen, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Treasury Department, and the Treasury Department as a defendant.

Lawyers who represent the prosecutors called for this step by the Trump administration as a constitutional and moral crisis.

The White House did not respond to the Business Insider request for comment.

The United States Agency for International Development supervises programs in 65 countries that focus on medical assistance, food, nutrition, HIV treatment and assistance to people in conflict areas. Data It reveals that the American Agency for International Development spent about 32.5 billion dollars in aid in the fiscal year 2024, with the largest amount of aid to Ukraine, Jordan and Ethiopia. Half funding went to the humanitarian or health and population specialist, while another $ 7 billion was spent on governance.

Foreign spending is less than 1 % of the American federal budget, although the United States is the largest humanitarian aid provider in the world.

Many major Democrats and legal analysts have argued that the US Agency for International Development is illegal, as an independent agency can only be closed through Congress law.

Five days after Trump, the United States froze billions of dollars in humanitarian aid for health purposes, education and anti -corruption, among other purposes.

Trump recently suggested that his administration may try to close the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Environmental Protection Agency.