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USAID direct hires put on leave worldwide, except those deemed essential

The Trump administration is placing U.S. Agency for International Development direct-hire staffers around the world on leave, except those deemed essential

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Author: Via AP news wire

Treasury Says Musk Team Has ‘Read-Only’ Access to Payment Data

The US Treasury Department confirmed Tuesday that Elon Musk’s government efficiency team has been given “read-only” access to “coded data” of the government’s payments system.

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Author: Saleha Mohsin

USAID missions overseas ordered to shut down by Friday

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Author: Sara Cook,Caitlin Yilek

How the world’s richest man laid waste to the US government

Elon Musk has achieved astonishing power in Trump’s administration – and spent the weekend wielding it

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Author: Nick Robins-Early

‘Shock and fear’: Inside USAID as Elon Musk works to dismantle humanitarian agency

Elon Musk is leading an attack on the 63-year-old humanitarian agency, causing chaos for lifesaving programs abroad and staff at home

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Author: Richard Hall

Democrats confront limits of their power in bid to stop Trump and Musk

Democrats are fighting to energize their party’s growing resistance to President Trump and his chief lieutenant, Elon Musk.

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Author: STEVE PEOPLES,NICHOLAS RICCARDI

Why Trump hates USAID so much

The Trump administration’s takedown of federal spending has begun in earnest with the dismantling of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), an independent government agency that has been funding healthcare, pro-democracy and civil society programmes around the world since 1961. ‘We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper,’ Elon Musk boasted on

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Author: Owen Matthews

The Not-Quite-Anti-Woke Caucus

Democratic members of Congress are fed up with their party’s discourse on identity, but they can’t get on board with Donald Trump’s campaign to destroy D.E.I.

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Author: Emma Green

Musk’s purge of USAid ‘cuts off workers on Ukraine front line’

Security fears for aid programme staff after rapid shutdown leaves them unable to use official communications systems

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Author: Memphis Barker

Deaths predicted amid the chaos of Elon Musk’s shutdown of USAid

The impact of the billionaire’s declaration has been swift and brutal, with food and crucial drugs abandoned in warehouses, vital programmes closed and workers laid off

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Author: Mark Townsend,Karen McVeigh,Charles Pensulo,Caroline Kimeu,Luke Taylor

Global health becomes a pivot point in USAID fight

The global health implications are stoking growing pushback from congressional Democrats.

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Author: Victoria Knight

While Democrats sleep

As Donald Trump tears up America’s rule book, the minority party can’t work out how to respond

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Author: Edward Luce

‘Authoritarian’: Furious NY House Republicans send warning to Dem leaders in war over Stefanik seat

New York Republicans are pressing the state’s Democratic leaders on reports they are working to delay the election for Rep. Elise Stefanik’s soon-to-be-open seat.

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Author: Elizabeth Elkind

Media Miss by the Left: Democratic lawmaker pressed on why party is ‘so staggeringly unpopular’

Fifty-seven percent of the American people have an unfavorable view of the Democratic Party, according to a Quinnipiac poll.

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Author: Drew Pittock

Democrat vows to use Tommy Tuberville’s playbook to protest freezing of USAID

Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI) is taking a page out of Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s (R-AL) playbook Monday by promising to block all diplomatic posts until funding an

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Author: Sarah K. Burris

Democratic senator to block Trump nominees over US aid agency shutdown

U.S. Senator Brian Schatz said on Monday he would block Senate votes on President Donald Trump’s nominees for diplomatic positions in protest over moves to close the U.S. Agency for International Development and fold it into the State Department.

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Author: Reuters

Ayman Mohyeldin: Democrats finally have a new leader. Now it’s time for a new strategy.

Before the party can lay out a vision of what it is for, it needs to actually figure out what that is.

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Author: Ayman Mohyeldin

Democratic activists call on party to fight Trump takeover

Analysis: Democratic activists have been annoyed with lawmakers’ lack of action against Donald Trump, says Eric Garcia. Now, they’re starting to step up

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Author: Eric Garcia

Elon Musk accused of ‘coup’, running shadow gov’t as DOGE tightens control

Tech billionaire has upended the federal bureaucracy in the two weeks since US President Donald Trump took office.

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Author: John Power,Erin Hale

Secretary Marco Rubio Appointed as Acting Administrator for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) – United States Department of State

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has long strayed from its original mission of responsibly advancing American interests abroad, and it is now abundantly clear that significant portions of USAID funding are not aligned with the core national interests of the United States. As an interim step toward gaining control and better understanding […]

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Author: Crystal Thompson

Democratic Sen. Brian Schatz puts a hold on Trump’s State Department nominees

The move comes after Elon Musk said he and Trump would shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development.

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Author: Sahil Kapur,Frank Thorp V,Abigail Williams

What is USAid and why does Trump dislike it so much?

The US agency distributes tens of billions of dollars’ worth of aid every year and is a key tool to promote soft power around the world

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Author: Guardian staff reporter

What is USAID, the foreign assistance agency Trump wants to shut down?

NBC News’ Valerie Castro explains the work of the U.S. Agency for International Development and the impact it will have if President Trump succeeds in closing it.

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Author: NBC News

Trump oo shaqada ka joojinaya hay’ad Soomaalida saameyn weyn ku leh

Hay’addan waxaa la aasaasay sanadkii 1961, xiligaas oo uu Madaxweyne John F. Kennedy dhisay, waxaana ka shaqeeya ku dhawaad 10,000 oo shaqaale ah, iyadoo miisaaniyaddeedu gaarayso ku dhawaad $40 bilyan taasoo lagu qabto mashaariic lagu caawinayo dadka saboolka ah ee caalamka

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