{"id":32259,"date":"2025-02-03T16:29:45","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T16:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/03\/usaid-headquarters-reportedly-closed-and-workers-told-to-stay-home\/"},"modified":"2025-02-03T16:29:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T16:29:45","slug":"usaid-headquarters-reportedly-closed-and-workers-told-to-stay-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/03\/usaid-headquarters-reportedly-closed-and-workers-told-to-stay-home\/","title":{"rendered":"USAid headquarters reportedly closed and workers told to stay home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Orders come less than a day after top security officials suspended as Musk leads moves towards agency\u2019s closure<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/feb\/03\/donald-trump-trade-tariffs-eu-mexico-canada-china-us-politics-live\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Washington DC headquarters of the United States Agency for International Development (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/usaid\">USAid<\/a>) was reportedly closed on Monday, and workers were told to remain at home as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s second presidential <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration\">administration<\/a> took further steps towards its likely closure.<\/p>\n<p>Agency staff received late-night emails on Sunday telling them not to come to work in the morning, according to Devex, a media platform for the global development community, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devex.com\/news\/scoop-usaid-closes-headquarters-monday-amid-trump-transition-chaos-109252\">first reported the move<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/03\/usaid-closed-trump-musk\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orders come less than a day after top security officials suspended as Musk leads moves towards agency\u2019s closure US politics live \u2013 latest updates The Washington DC headquarters of the United States Agency for International Development (USAid) was reportedly closed on Monday, and workers were told to remain at home as Donald Trump\u2019s second presidential &#8230; <a title=\"USAid headquarters reportedly closed and workers told to stay home\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/03\/usaid-headquarters-reportedly-closed-and-workers-told-to-stay-home\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about USAid headquarters reportedly closed and workers told to stay home\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}