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The personnel of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) left their Washington offices, DC, for the last time, on Friday, with some boxeshand boxes with messages that seemed to be aimed at President Donald Trumpwho is cutting the agency’s workforce.
Thousands of employees were notified weeks ago of their pending layoffs, while a federal judge on Friday cleared the way for the Trump administration to continue with the mass dismissals, since it aims to eliminate waste throughout the federal bureaucracy.
“We are abandoning the world,” he read a message in a box that a staff member smiles while leaving the Office of the USAID Humanitarian Affairs Office.
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Another smiling staff had a more optimistic tone, with his message reading: “You can get the humanitarians of USAID But you can’t get humanity out of humanitarian. “
The recently dismissed International Development Agency staff ( of 2025. (Reuters/Brian Snyder)
The employees were received outside the offices by a small group of welcome supporters and former USAID workers who were carrying signs: “Amos We USAID” and “Thank you for your service, Usaid”.
Other workers were seen leaving the offices crying.
The Trump administration plans to gut the agency and intends to leave less than 300 employees in the work of the 8,000 contracts and current direct contractors.
They, together with an unknown number of 5,000 international employees hired locally abroad, would execute the few programs that save the life that administration says it intends to continue for time.
Recently dismissed from the USAID staff they leave the USAID offices in Washington, DC, on February 21, 2025. (Reuters/Brian Snyder)
USAID has received particular criticism under the Government Efficiency Department (Doge) led by Elon Musk for alleged wasteful expenses.
For example, Senator Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, president of Caucus del Cauco del Senate, recently He published a list Of projects and programs, he says that USAID has helped finance over the years, including $ 20 million to produce a Sesame Street show in Iraq.
Several more examples Of the questionable expenses they have been discovered in USAID, which includes more than $ 900,000 to a “terrorist beneficial organization based in Gaza” called Bayader Association for the Environment and Development and a $ 1.5 million program programmed to “advance diversity, equity, and inclusion in Serbia’s workplaces and commercial communities. “
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Trump has moved to gut the agency after imposing a 90 -day break on foreign aid. He has also appointed the Secretary of State Marco Rubio As the interim director of Usaid.
Government employee unions had sued to stop mass layoff employees in their positions.
Llorous employees leave the 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 gone through an administrative dispute process, he probably had no jurisdiction to listen to the case of the unions or consider their broader arguments that administration is violating the constitution of the United States by closing an agency created and funded by Congress.
The judge said that the problem was jurisdictional, that the federal district courts should not participate in this stage, and that the matter must be managed administratively under federal employment laws.
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“In summary, because the court probably lacks jurisdiction on the claimants’ claims, they have not established a probability of success in merits,” the judge‘S ruler declared, in part.
“The Court concludes that the plaintiffs have not shown that they or their members will suffer an irreparable injury in the absence of a court order; that their claims are likely to succeed in the merits; or that the balance of difficulties or public interest favors strongly a court order. “
The worker of the United States Agency for International Development Julie Hanson Swanson, on the left, joins the supporters of USAID workers outside the office of the USAID Humanitarian Affairs Office in Washington, on Friday February 21, 2025. (Manuel Balce Cenet)
The unions can now go to the Federal Court of Appeals of Washington, DC, so that emergency relief is put in place, or possibly a preliminary judicial order.
Bill Mears, Andrew Mark Miller, Aubie Spady, Deirdre Heavey, Morgan Phillips and Emma Colton, as well as Reuters, Aubie Spady, Morgan Phillips and Emma Colton, as well as Reuters, contributed to this report.
