{"id":34375,"date":"2025-02-25T23:51:57","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T23:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/25\/usaid-workers-to-be-escorted-back-to-collect-belongings-amid-trump-shutdown-bid\/"},"modified":"2025-02-25T23:51:57","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T23:51:57","slug":"usaid-workers-to-be-escorted-back-to-collect-belongings-amid-trump-shutdown-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/25\/usaid-workers-to-be-escorted-back-to-collect-belongings-amid-trump-shutdown-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"USAid workers to be \u2018escorted\u2019 back to collect belongings amid Trump shutdown bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Staff at foreign aid agency who were put on leave to be allowed 15 minutes to retrieve personal items from office<\/p>\n<p>Workers at the US Agency for International Development (USAid) have been invited back to its office \u201cto retrieve their personal belongings\u201d as the Trump administration continues its bid to shut down the foreign aid agency.<\/p>\n<p>An email seen by the Guardian described how staff in Washington would be allowed to briefly return on Thursday or Friday of this week. They would be \u201cescorted to their workspace\u201d and granted \u201capproximately 15 minutes\u201d to gather their items, it said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/25\/usaid-workers-personal-belongings\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff at foreign aid agency who were put on leave to be allowed 15 minutes to retrieve personal items from office Workers at the US Agency for International Development (USAid) have been invited back to its office \u201cto retrieve their personal belongings\u201d as the Trump administration continues its bid to shut down the foreign aid &#8230; <a title=\"USAid workers to be \u2018escorted\u2019 back to collect belongings amid Trump shutdown bid\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/25\/usaid-workers-to-be-escorted-back-to-collect-belongings-amid-trump-shutdown-bid\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about USAid workers to be \u2018escorted\u2019 back to collect belongings amid Trump shutdown bid\">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-34375","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\/34375","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=34375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}