Forced leaves start for thousands at USAID under a Trump plan to gut the foreign aid agency
- Posted on February 7, 2025
- By The Toronto Star
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Forced leaves start for thousands at USAID under a Trump plan to gut the foreign aid agency
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Forced leaves began in Washington and worldwide Friday for most employees of the U.S. Agency for International Development, as federal workers associations turned to the courts to