The Trump administration has said that it is pulling almost all US Agency for International Development workers off the job and out of the field worldwide, ending the agency’s six-decade mission overseas that fought starvation, funded education and worked to end epidemics. The administration notified USAID workers on Tuesday in emails and a notice posted online, the latest in a steady dismantling of the aid agency by returning political appointees from President Donald Trump’s first term and billionaire Elon Musk’s government-efficiency teams who call much of the spending on programmes overseas wasteful.
