{"id":37615,"date":"2025-04-01T18:41:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T18:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/01\/musks-doge-to-fire-all-local-workers-and-us-diplomats-from-usaid-sources-say\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T18:41:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T18:41:06","slug":"musks-doge-to-fire-all-local-workers-and-us-diplomats-from-usaid-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/01\/musks-doge-to-fire-all-local-workers-and-us-diplomats-from-usaid-sources-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk\u2019s Doge to fire all local workers and US diplomats from USAID, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unofficial Trump adviser\u2019s cost-cutting team to finalize shuttering the foreign aid agency on which millions depend<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/apr\/01\/donald-trump-elon-musk-special-elections-florida-wisconsin-texas-arizona-us-politics-live\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/elon-musk\">Elon Musk<\/a>\u2019s cost-cutting team is finalizing the dismantlement of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/usaid\">US Agency for International Development<\/a>, ordering the firings of thousands of local workers and US diplomats and civil servants assigned to the agency overseas, two former top USAID officials and a source with knowledge of the situation said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Congress was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/state-department-notified-congress-intent-reorganize-usaid-rubio-says-2025-03-28\/\">notified<\/a> that almost all of USAID\u2019s own employees were being fired by September, all of its overseas offices shut, and some functions absorbed into the state department.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/01\/musk-doge-usaid-firings\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unofficial Trump adviser\u2019s cost-cutting team to finalize shuttering the foreign aid agency on which millions depend US politics live \u2013 latest updates Elon Musk\u2019s cost-cutting team is finalizing the dismantlement of the US Agency for International Development, ordering the firings of thousands of local workers and US diplomats and civil servants assigned to the agency &#8230; <a title=\"Musk\u2019s Doge to fire all local workers and US diplomats from USAID, sources say\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/01\/musks-doge-to-fire-all-local-workers-and-us-diplomats-from-usaid-sources-say\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Musk\u2019s Doge to fire all local workers and US diplomats from USAID, sources say\">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-37615","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\/37615","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=37615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}