Dozens Of Federal Officials Suspended For Defying Trump’s Executive Orders

Dozens of federal officials, mostly top staff members at the U.S. Agency for International Development, have been suspended for trying to interfere with President Donald Trump’s freeze on foreign aid.
The workers, estimated to total 57, were placed on leave on Monday for “trying to circumvent his executive order on freezing all foreign aid,” according to a report in the Daily Mail.
They are “career government officials.”
“We have identified several actions within USAID that appear to be designed to circumvent the president’s executive orders and the mandate from the American people,” explained Jason Gray, now the new acting administrator of the agency.
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“As a result, we have placed a number of USAID employees on administrative leave with full pay and benefits until further notice.”
The president had on January 24 ordered that U.S. AID, and the State department, “shall no provide foreign assistance” until reviews of the nation’s cash handouts were completed, except for help to Israel and Egypt – or in cases where “emergency food assistance is needed.”
Overall, the nation has an annual budget of some $60 billion for foreign aid.
It’s part of Trump’s “America First” agenda and staff members were warned they would be subject to discipline if they disobeyed, the report said.
Then Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a “stop work” order over the weekend, insisting that nongovernment organizations or charities stop using any American funding they already had received until those reviews were finished.
The Washington Post explained that the officials were trying to “circumvent” Trump’s orders.
The order halted a wide range of distributions for various programs ranging from vaccinations to training to military assistance for several groups.
Since then, programs and groups have been flooding Washington with demands for waivers to the limits, which must go through USAID leadership as well as Rubio.
“Any waiver must be thoroughly justified to demonstrate that the specific assistance for which the waiver is sought is necessary for lifesaving purposes, cannot be performed by current U.S. direct hire staff, or would otherwise pose significant risks to national security,” one memo explained.
The orders explain that, “It is no longer business as usual. Every program will be thoroughly scrutinized.”
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