Musk’s Doge to fire all local workers and US diplomats from USAID, sources say
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Unofficial Trump adviser's cost-cutting team to finalize shuttering the foreign aid agency on which millions depend
Elon Musk's 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 overseas, two former top USAID officials and a source with knowledge of the situation said on Tuesday.
On Friday, Congress was notified that almost all of USAID's own employees were being fired by September, all of its overseas offices shut, and some functions absorbed into the state department.
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