By using this site, you agree to the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
Accept
Pew PatriotsPew PatriotsPew Patriots
Notification Show More
Font ResizerAa
  • Home
  • News
  • Tactical
  • Guns and Gear
  • Prepping & Survival
  • Videos
Reading: USAID workers send message to Trump on boxes while leaving office for last time
Share
Font ResizerAa
Pew PatriotsPew Patriots
  • News
  • Tactical
  • Guns and Gear
  • Prepping & Survival
  • Videos
Search
  • Home
  • News
  • Tactical
  • Guns and Gear
  • Prepping & Survival
  • Videos
Have an existing account? Sign In
Follow US
USAID workers send message to Trump on boxes while leaving office for last time
News

USAID workers send message to Trump on boxes while leaving office for last time

Jimmie Dempsey
Last updated: February 22, 2025 4:45 pm
Jimmie Dempsey Published February 22, 2025
Share
SHARE

Sacked United States Agency for International Development (USAID) staffers left their Washington, D.C., offices for the last time on Friday, with some carrying boxes scrawled with messages that seemed to be directed at President Donald Trump, who is slashing the agency’s workforce.

Thousands of staffers were notified weeks ago of their pending dismissals, while a federal judge on Friday cleared the way for the Trump administration to follow through with the mass layoffs as it aims to eliminate waste throughout the federal bureaucracy.

“We are abandoning the world,” read one message on a box being hauled out by a grinning staffer as she walked out of USAID’s Bureau of Humanitarian Affairs office.

‘WASTEFUL AND DANGEROUS’: DOGE’S TOP FIVE MOST SHOCKING REVELATIONS

Another smiling staffer’s box had a more upbeat tone, with her message reading: “You can take the humanitarians out of USAID but you can’t take the humanity out of the humanitarians.”

The staffers were greeted outside the offices by a small group of well-wishing supporters and former USAID workers who carried signs reading, “We love USAID” and “Thank you for your service, USAID.”

Other workers were seen leaving the offices in tears.

The Trump administration plans to gut the agency and intends to leave fewer than 300 staffers on the job out of the current 8,000 direct hires and contractors. 

They, along with an unknown number of 5,000 locally hired international staffers abroad, would run the few life-saving programs that the administration says it intends to keep going for the time being.

Recently fired USAID staffers leave USAID offices in Washington, D.C., on Feb 21, 2025.

USAID has come in for particular criticism under the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) for alleged wasteful spending. 

For instance, Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, the Senate DOGE Caucus Chairwoman, recently published a list of projects and programs she says USAID has helped fund over the years, including $20 million to produce a Sesame Street show in Iraq. 

Several more examples of questionable spending have been uncovered at USAID, including more than $900,000 to a “Gaza-based terror charity” called Bayader Association for Environment and Development and a $1.5 million program slated to “advance diversity, equity, and inclusion in Serbia’s workplaces and business communities.”

SECRETARY OF STATE RUBIO CONFIRMS BECOMING ACTING USAID CHIEF

Trump has moved to gut the agency after imposing a 90-day pause on foreign aid. He also has appointed Secretary of State Marco Rubio as the acting director of USAID.

Government employee unions had sued to stop the mass layoffs, but U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols on Friday lifted a temporary restraining order he had issued at the outset of the case and declined to issue a longer-term order keeping the employees in their posts.

Tearful staffers leave USAID building in Washington D.C.

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 likely did not have jurisdiction to hear the unions’ case or consider their broader arguments that the administration is violating the U.S. Constitution by shutting down an agency created and funded by Congress.

The judge said the issue was jurisdictional, that federal district courts should not be involved at this stage, and that the matter should be handled administratively under federal employment laws.

 

“In sum, because the Court likely lacks jurisdiction over plaintiffs’ claims, they have not established a likelihood of success on the merits,” the judge‘s ruling stated, in part.

“The court concludes that plaintiffs have not demonstrated that they or their members will suffer irreparable injury absent an injunction; that their claims are likely to succeed on the merits; or that the balance of the hardships or the public interest strongly favors an injunction.”

USAID supporters

The unions can now go to the Washington, D.C., federal appeals court for emergency relief to have the TRO put back into place, or possibly a preliminary injunction.

Fox News’ Bill Mears, Andrew Mark Miller, Aubrie Spady, Deirdre Heavey, Morgan Phillips and Emma Colton as well as Reuters contributed to this report.

Read the full article here

You Might Also Like

Zach Bryan feud escalates as John Moreland claims getting kicked off album is ‘cooler’ than being on it

US shuts southern border to livestock imports to stop spread of deadly flies

Houthis shoot down 3rd US reaper drone as Trump administration continues daily airstrikes

North Carolina ‘should consider cutting ties with’ Bill Belichick, ex-Patriots linebacker says

Liberal Washington Post columnist predicts Biden ‘won’t have much of a lasting legacy’

Share This Article
Facebook Twitter Email Print
Leave a Comment

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

We Recommend
University of Wisconsin provides nearly 6K to student sex group that gives ethical porn programming
News

University of Wisconsin provides nearly $136K to student sex group that gives ethical porn programming

Jimmie Dempsey Jimmie Dempsey June 27, 2025
Eagles’ AJ Dillon reflects on ‘cool experience’ attending Trump rally, meeting president
Chinese ‘agroterrorism’ could threaten US ‘survival as a nation,’ expert warns
Ex-Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy pleads for civil political discourse, warns ‘democracy is at risk’
NASA’s Curiosity rover discovers unusual ‘boxwork’ patterns on Mars linked to ancient waterways
Beyond the Leaderboard: LIV Golf opens doors for next generation
South Sudan native Khaman Maluach has tearful reaction after Rockets select him in NBA Draft
News

South Sudan native Khaman Maluach has tearful reaction after Rockets select him in NBA Draft

Jimmie Dempsey Jimmie Dempsey June 27, 2025
Brad Pitt’s Los Angeles home ransacked by three suspects who broke in through front window
News

Brad Pitt’s Los Angeles home ransacked by three suspects who broke in through front window

Jimmie Dempsey Jimmie Dempsey June 27, 2025
Heather Graham sports black string bikini, Jane Seymour dons coral one-piece during Italian summer getaway
News

Heather Graham sports black string bikini, Jane Seymour dons coral one-piece during Italian summer getaway

Jimmie Dempsey Jimmie Dempsey June 27, 2025
Pew Patriots
  • News
  • Tactical
  • Prepping & Survival
  • Videos
  • Guns and Gear
2024 © Pew Patriots. All Rights Reserved.
Welcome Back!

Sign in to your account

Username or Email Address
Password

Lost your password?