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Emergency Humanitarian Waiver to Foreign Assistance Pause
Source – US State departmentJanuary 28, 2025 To: All implementing U.S. government agencies, partners, and NGOs. For the purposes of carrying out the President’s Executive Order on Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid, I am approving an additional waiver of the pause under the Executive Order on Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid … [Read more…]
Leaked guidance for PEPFAR on the waiver to the funding freeze for “life-saving humanitarian assistance programs”
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Trump ally Peter Marocco behind evisceration of USAID: ‘He’s a destroyer’
The Trump administration’s evisceration of US overseas aid has been presided over by a campaign ally who sowed a trail of enmity at multiple agencies during the first Trump presidency and has been publicly identified as allegedly having been present at the January 6 insurrection when rioters stormed the US Capitol. Peter Marocco has accumulated … [Read more…]
Musk Says DOGE Halting Treasury Payments to US Contractors
(Bloomberg) — Elon Musk said his “DOGE team” of government efficiency enforcers is shutting down some payments to federal contractors, suggesting that the world’s richest man may have access to sensitive systems used at the US Treasury Department. “The corruption and waste is being rooted out in real-time,” Musk posted on X, saying officials reporting … [Read more…]
US Foreign Aid: Lawsuit Targets Trump Administration Over Stop Work Orders
Robert Nichols, an attorney representing contractors and NGOs involved in foreign aid programs, is gearing up to file a lawsuit this week. He claims that the sudden stop-work orders breach the Administrative Procedures Act, which forbids arbitrary actions by agencies.
US Workers – The Social Security Administration’s website could be next on the list…
It looks like the Social Security Administration’s website could be at risk, especially with the controversial access Elon Musk and DOGE have to the Department of Treasury’s federal payments system. It is strongly recommended that you download your most recent Social Security statement, just in case you need to prove your SSA earnings down the … [Read more…]
Future of US aid agency in doubt after website goes dark and officials put on leave
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Up to 3,000 DC aid workers laid off by next week, CEO says
DT Global’s CEO told staff members many other firms could furlough or retrench the vast majority of their staff. The CEO of one of the world’s leading development contractors told staff members Friday that he expects sector-wide job losses of between 2,000 and 3,000 development professionals in Washington, D.C., by next week, as the fallout … [Read more…]
USAID’S WEBSITE IS DOWN + Musk calls USAID a ‘criminal organization’ that should ‘die’
Several federal websites have gone dark in recent days, including USAID’s. Peter Marocco is now overseeing the re-organization of USAID alongside Musk’s DOGE office. Can the Trump administration really dismantle USAID without a peep from Congress? The short answer is no. USAID came into existence on September 4, 1961, when Congress passed the Foreign Assistance … [Read more…]