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An official at the US Agency for International Development has ordered employees to shred a large volume of records, according to a court filing on Tuesday by government employee unions asking a judge to block the move. In a motion filed in Washington, DC, federal court,…
A divided U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to let President Donald Trump’s administration withhold payment to foreign aid organizations for work they already performed for the government as the Republican president moves to pull the plug on American humanitarian projects around the world. Handing a…
A senior official with the U.S. Agency for International Development in an email on Sunday warned that the Trump administration’s dismantling of the agency will result in unnecessary deaths — only to email his staff less than 30 minutes later to say that he had been…
The United States has dramatically cut the budgets of overseas development and aid programs, with multi-year contracts pared down by 92 percent, or $54 billion, the State Department said Wednesday.On his first day in office, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order demanding a freeze…
US Agency for International Development workers were allowed to briefly reenter the headquarters in Washington on Thursday to collect their personal belongings and clear out their desks, a day after President Donald Trump’s administration said it was cutting more than 90% of the agency’s aid contracts.…
New Delhi: The US Agency for International Development (USAID) staff will be “escorted” to their workstations and given “15 minutes” to retrieve personal belongings from their Washington DC headquarter later this week. On its website, the agency published the “specific instructions” that former employees must adhere…
Washington: President Donald Trump’s administration on Sunday said it was placing all personnel at the foreign assistance agency USAID, except leaders and critical staff around the world, on paid administrative leave and eliminating 1,600 positions in the United States. Just before midnight on Sunday US Eastern…
US President Donald Trump has once again claimed that his predecessor Joe Biden gave $100 million worth of condoms to Hamas. During a speech in Florida, he highlighted the figure and said this was part of wasteful government spending, citing information from billionaire Elon Musk’s Department…
New Delhi: US President Donald Trump has once again questioned the Biden administration’s move to provide $21 million to India for “voter turnout” and guessed if they were “trying to get somebody else elected”. “Why do we need to spend $21 million on voter turnout in…
New Delhi: The newly created US Department of Government Efficiency or DOGE has been auditing several government agencies in the US and cutting wasteful expenditure. DOGE posted on February 16 that they had identified and cut “$486M to the “Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening,”…