By R. Cort Kirkwood
President Donald Trump’s war against waste, fraud, and abuse at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has continued with the dismissal of some 4,700 employees, leaving a staff of just under 300.
Federal bureaucrats have retaliated with the usual far-left lawsuit that claims what Trump has done — gut the agency, fire the employees, and stop foreign aid for 90 days — is illegal.
As well, GOP U.S. Representatives Greg Steube of Florida and Thomas Massie of Kentucky have introduced legislation to abolish the rogue agency, which has spent billions of taxpayer dollars on wasteful projects abroad, not least its subsidies to sex perverts and more than 6,000 journalists.
Doing what should have been long ago, the acting administrator of USAID, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, has cashiered almost every employee, NBC reported.
The agency “is expected to be reduced to about 290 workers from the more than 5,000 foreign service officers, civil servants and personal service contractors it currently employs, according to two sources familiar with the plans,” the network reported:
Most of the approximately 3,000 institutional support contractors have already been fired or furloughed. The status of the approximately 5,000 foreign service nationals serving around the world is not yet clear.
Speaking to Fox News, Rubio explained what had to be done.
Noting that the agency is required “to take policy direction” from the president, secretary of state, and National Security Council, it has “evolved into an agency that believes they’re not even a U.S. government agency.” Instead, its personnel believe the agency is a “global charity.” The agency spends tax money as it sees fit, he said, “whether it is in national interest or not.”
Read the rest here: https://thenewamerican.com/us/politics/rubio-fires-almost-entire-usaid-workforce-bureaucrats-sue-as-steube-massie-file-bill-to-abolish-rogue-agency/
