Elon Musk and DOGE efforts to close USAID likely unconstitutional, agency must be restored, judge rules
The federal judge ordered the government to reinstate U.S. Agency for International Development systems, saying DOGE likely violated the constitution in multiple ways.
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USAID employees told to burn or shred classified documents
Groups challenging the administration's plans to shut down USAID filed an emergency motion Tuesday afternoon seeking to stop the document destruction. "Defendants are, as this motion is being ...
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Trump administration says handling of USAID documents 'did not violate' federal laws
A USAID official had ordered the destruction of classified records. A USAID directive to destroy classified documents had been "seriously misapprehended," Trump administration attorneys wrote in a ...
The Hill7d
USAID order to delete classified records sparks flurry of litigation
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) employees and outside groups are fighting an order from the agency’s leadership to shred and burn its classified documents as well as personnel ...
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DOJ says USAID staffers were not ordered to shred, burn classified documents as Trump dismantles agency: official
The Department of Justice has batted down accusations of document destruction at the US Agency for International Development (USAID) after an internal agency directive apparently ordered the ...
I lost my job working with USAID. I won’t go silently with so much at stake | Opinion
As legal battles unfold over the dismantling of USAID, I am compelled to wage my own battle — to fight back against the lies ...
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Former USAID employees on cuts: ‘We are going to put lives in jeopardy’
Two former employees of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), who were fired last month, told CNN the 83 percent spending cuts Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Monday ...
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Secretary of state says 83% of USAID programs are being canceled
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said early Monday that 83% of programs funded by U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, are being canceled, in the latest for the beleaguered agency ...
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USAID staff instructed to clear out classified safes and shred or burn documents
The only labeling required on the burn bags are the words 'SECRET' and 'USAID/(B/IO)' in dark sharpie if possible. If you need additional burn bags or sharpie markers, please let me or the SEC ...
Politico7d
USAID official tells staffers: Shred and burn your documents
A senior official at USAID instructed a number of the agency’s remaining staff to convene at the agency’s now-former headquarters in Washington on Tuesday for an “all day” group effort to ...
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Rubio: 83 percent of USAID programs to be canceled
Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Monday that 83 percent of the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) programs would be canceled, essentially capping a dramatic fall for the ...