(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The New York Times has interviewed 30 former employees of the U.S. Agency for International Development, reporting Monday that they’re suffering from “mental trauma” due to being fired last year.
The Times report comes about a year after USAID was closed as part of the Trump administration’s short-lived cost-cutting measures, which were spearheaded by billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency. By March 2025, 83 percent of the agency’s foreign aid had been canceled. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said at the time that roughly 5,200 contracts had also been canceled because they did not serve—“and in some cases even harmed”—U.S. national security interests.
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