Officials and federal officers turned away scores of U.S. Agency for International Development staffers who showed up for work Monday at its Washington headquarters, after a court temporarily blocked a Trump administration order that would have pulled all but a fraction of workers off the job worldwide.
It pushes anti-labor union reforms in Latin America, admonishes USAID for cutting off “clean fossil fuels” in Africa and proposes using taxpayer dollars to “promote private-sector solutions to the world’s true development problems.”
Al-Awlaki was an American-born jihadist who was killed in a drone strike in Yemen in 2011, during the Obama administration.
President Trump ran for reelection on the promise to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government, and assigned billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk to supervise that task, scheduled for completion on July 4, 2026 — America’s 250th birthday.
