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Trump Administration Highlights: Nearly All Jobs Are Said to Be Cut at Aid Agency

The Trump administration significantly reduces staff at a key aid agency, impacting operations and funding. Read more about the cuts and their implications.

Trump Cuts Aid Jobs

Where Things Stand

  • Job cuts: The Trump administration plans to retain only about 290 of the more than 10,000 employees worldwide at the U.S. Agency for International Development, according to three people with knowledge of the planned cuts to the work force. The cuts were communicated to agency leaders in a call on Thursday. At the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Justice, 168 employees were placed on administrative leave, according to agency officials. President Trump is widely expected to do away with the office.

  • Judge delays resignation plan: A federal judge in Massachusetts has stopped, at least temporarily, the Trump administration’s effort to get federal employees to leave their jobs by accepting delayed resignation offers. The judge said the government could not move forward with the program — which gave workers until 11:59 p.m. tonight to accept offers to stop working and collect pay until September — pending a hearing Monday afternoon on a legal challenge. Later, the Office of Personnel Management extended the deadline to accept the resignation offer to Monday at 11:59 p.m. The administration said Thursday that more than 40,000 workers had already accepted.

  • Executive order fallout: The N.C.A.A. said that only athletes assigned female at birth were eligible to compete in women’s sports at its member colleges and universities, a day after Mr. Trump signed an executive action aimed at transgender athletes. Another order, freezing all foreign aid for at least 90 days, abruptly halted dozens of clinical trials around the globe, leaving people being treated with experimental drugs and medical products cut off from the researchers who were monitoring them.

  • A new O.M.B. chief: The Senate voted 53 to 47 to confirm Russell Vought, an architect of Project 2025, to be the director of the Office of Management and Budget, or O.M.B. All the Democrats opposed his nomination. The confirmation put in place one of the most powerful planners of Mr. Trump’s agenda to upend the federal bureaucracy and slash spending that the administration thinks is wasteful.

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