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BREAKING NEWS: Secretary of State Marco Rubio approved less than 300 essential personnel as USAID staff in the U.S. and overseas rush to rapidly close missions and leave jobs by midnight Friday.

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— NPR (@npr.org) 6 February 2025 at 22:39

NEWS: USAID is shrinking its essential worldwide staff to 294 — a massive decrease from 14000.

An internal breakdown shows the agency being left with just 12 people assigned to Africa, 21 to the entire Middle East, and 8 to Asia.

— Prem Thakker ツ (@premthakker.bsky.social) 6 February 2025 at 21:39

America seems set on surrendering their entire global soft power, in the future this decision will be looked on as a disastrous one.

USAID is there to help prevent the spread of infectious diseases, ones which if escalated, would eventually reach America, USAID helps developing foreign countries, which deepens economic ties, it improves foreign relations which in turn improves diplomatic relations and America's soft power which has a positive impact on all aspects of America's economic, diplomatic and political strength.

• USAID Turned Public Opinion Around in Indonesia on Bin Laden and America
• Trump’s USAID Plans Threaten Money For American Farms, Businesses
• USAID: Gutting Of Aid Agency Could Cost Thousands Of American Jobs
• Minnesota Agribusiness, Farmers Could Be Hurt By Musk's Shuttering Of USAID

This new Republican Isolationism is so fucking dumb.

Anyway, another China W if they fill the void.