Forced leaves start for thousands at USAID under a Trump plan to gut the foreign aid agency
Demonstrators and lawmakers rally against President Donald Trump and his ally Elon Musk as they disrupt the federal government, including dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development, which administers foreign aid approved by Congress, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Forced leaves pulling all but a small fraction of staffers of the U.S. Agency for International Development off the job around the world began Friday, while employee associations turned to federal courts to try to roll back the new Trump administration's stunningly swift dismantling of the six-decade-old aid agency and its programs worldwide.
A federal judge scheduled a hearing Friday afternoon in the lawsuit from employees seeking to temporarily block the agency's shutdown. In the meantime, crews placed duct tape covering the USAID name on signs outside its Washington headquarters.
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