The New York Times published on 28 March 2025 an article titled "Final Cuts Will Eliminate U.S. Aid Agency in All but Name" by Karoun Demirjian, Stephanie Nolen, Michael Crowley, and Elizabeth Dias.
An email to USAID employees titled "U.S.A.I.D.'s Final Mission" detailed an elimination of an agency that once employed about 10,000 people before Trump's return to the White House. Terminated employees can apply for positions to implement whatever remains of foreign aid programs being transferred to the State Department. The layoffs are even more drastic than the Trump administration envisioned for USAID in February.
