Dismissed United States Agency for International Development (USAID) employees left their Washington, DC, offices for the last time on Friday, scribbling with a few wrapping boxes with messages that seemed to have been aimed President Donald Trumpwho lowers the workforce of the agency.
Thousands of employees were informed weeks ago of their pending dismissal, while a federal court on Friday released the way for the Trump government to follow the mass dismissals, because it aims to eliminate waste through the federal bureaucracy.
“We leave the world”, read a message about a box that was removed by a grinning employee when she went to the office of USAID’s desk or humanitarian affairs.
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Another smiling employee had a more cheerful tone, where her message reads: “You can remove the Humanitarians from USAID But you can’t get humanity out of the humanitarian. “
Recently dismissed staff of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) transports boxes with a message while they leave the work and are welcomed by former USAID employees and supporters during a Send -off outside USAID offices in Washington, DC, on 21 February 2025. (Reuters/Brian Snyder)
The employees were greeted outside the offices by a small group, good supporters and former USAID employees who wore signs with the text “We Love USAID” and “Thank you for your service, USAID.”
Other employees were found to leave the offices in tears.
The Trump administration intends to intestine the agency and plans to let fewer than 300 employees work from the current 8,000 direct employees and contractors.
They, together with an unknown number of 5,000 locally hired international employees abroad, would carry out the few life -saving programs that the administration says it is planning to continue for the time being.
Recently fired USAID employees leave the USAID offices in Washington, DC, on February 21, 2025. (Reuters/Brian Snyder)
USAID has arrived for special criticism under the Elon Musk-guided Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) for alleged wasteful editions.
Senator Joni Ernst, R -iowa, the chairman of the Senate Doge Caucus, recently was recently a list published From projects and programs she says that USAID has helped over the years, including $ 20 million to produce a Sesame Street show in Iraq.
More examples of doubtful expenses have been discovered at USAID, including more than $ 900,000 for a “Gaza-based terror charity” called Bayader Association for Environment and Development and a program of $ 1.5 million planned for “Advance Diversity, Equity, Equity“ And admission to the workplaces and business communities of Serbia. “
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Trump has moved to intestine the agency after a 90-day break on foreign aid. He has also appointed a State Secretary Marco Rubio As acting director of USAID.
The government’s trade unions had charged to stop the massive dismissals, but the American district judge Carl Nichols collected a temporary restraining order on Friday that he had given at the start of the case and refused to issue an order in the longer term their function held.
Fragile staff members leave USAID building in Washington, DC (Reuters/Brian Snyder)
Nichols, who was appointed by President Trump during his first term, also wrote that because the affected employees had not completed an administrative dispute process, he was probably not authorized to hear the case of the trade unions or to consider their broader arguments that the administration is that The administration is that the administration is the violation of the American Constitution by closing a office and financed by the congress.
The judge said that the Jurisdiction issue was that federal district courts should not be involved at this stage and that the case must be treated administratively under federal labor laws.
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“In short, because the court is likely to lack jurisdiction about the claims of claimants, they have not established a chance of success in relation to the merits,” the judge‘S pronunciation stated partially.
“The court concludes that claimants have not shown that they or their members will be irreparable injury in the absence of an order; that their claims are likely to succeed in the merits; or that the balance of the deflection or public interest greatly promotes an order. “
Retired United States Agency for International Development Worker Julie Hanson Swanson, left, joins supporters of USAID employees outside the Bureau of Humanitarian Affairs Office in USAID in Washington, Friday, February 21, 2025. (Manuel Balce Ceneta)
The trade unions can now go to Washington, DC, the Federal Court of Appeal for Emergency Aid to have the TO put back in place, or possibly a provisional order.
Fox News’ Bill Mears, Andrew Mark Miller, Aubrie Spady, Deirdre Heavey, Morgan Phillips and Emma Colton and Reuters have contributed to this report.
