A good start. The State Department and USAID present one of the biggest reform challenges that President Trump faces. Intertwined w/CIA.
— Jeff Carlson (@themarketswork) January 28, 2025
They've given BILLIONS of taxpayer dollars to the NGOs directing the flow of illegals into our country. They created the immigration problem. https://t.co/xRkgr3lYBB
The Trump administration placed "a number" of USAID
officials (U.S. Agency of International Development) on administrative leave after suspecting that they are conspiring to circumvent President Trump's executive orders on the halting of federal aid funds to overseas programs and DEI initiatives, according to an agency-wide email (attached to this post).
"We've identified several actions within USAID that appear to be designed to circumvent the President's Executive Orders and the mandate from the American people," Jason Gray, the acting USAID administrator, said in the email. "As a result, we have decided to put a number of USAID employees on administrative leave with full pay and benefits until further notice while we complete our analysis of these actions."
I wrote about the corrupt practice at USAID during Trump's first term in office, in which top officials retaliated against Mark Moyar, a Trump appointee assigned to ferret out agency waste and abuse, by yanking his security clearance and pushing him out of the agency.
Moyar then wrote a book about it: Masters of Corruption: How the Federal Bureaucracy Sabotaged the Trump Presidency.
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