WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration says it’s pulling almost all U.S. Agency for International Development workers off the job and out of the field worldwide. The order takes effect just before midnight Friday and gives direct hires of the agency overseas 30 days to return home unless they’re deemed essential. The notice posted online Tuesday says contractors not determined to be essential also would be fired. The move had been rumored for several days and is the most extreme of several proposals considered for consolidating the agency into the State Department. Thousands of USAID employees already have been laid off and programs worldwide shut down after the Republican president imposed a sweeping freeze on foreign assistance.… Continue Reading
