State Department Rushing to Evacuate USAID Staff from Global Assignments

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The U.S. State Department is swiftly working to evacuate all USAID employees stationed abroad, sources with knowledge of the situation told ABC News. This effort includes recalling both staff members and their families back to the United States, with a deadline set for Saturday, multiple sources confirmed.  

 

According to an insider, Pete Marocco, the newly appointed deputy administrator of USAID, informed State Department officials on Tuesday that if the evacuation was not completed as planned, the military would be deployed to handle the situation.  

 

A federal worker described the decision as a sudden and disruptive recall, impacting thousands of foreign service officers and their families. The abrupt move is forcing employees to leave their posts with very little notice, causing significant upheaval—spouses resigning from jobs, children being pulled from schools, and even pets requiring relocation.  

 

"To uproot them and call them back to Washington like criminals while dealing with families and logistics is cruel. These people have kids in school," a former USAID employee expressed to ABC News.  

 

The recall has raised concerns among employees and former officials, as it places immense stress on families who have built their lives overseas. With such a short timeline, many are struggling to arrange travel, find accommodations back in the U.S., and transition abruptly out of their roles.  

 

While the exact reasoning behind the mass evacuation remains unclear, the urgency of the recall suggests a significant shift in policy or response to an emerging crisis. For now, USAID staff across the globe are scrambling to comply with the order, despite the personal and professional turmoil it brings.

 

Based on a report by ABC News 2025-02-06

 

 

[Lung Mark]

They're welcome to stay, just won't have a job anymore. No different from a corporate job overseas. Why should they be any different?

[Smokey and the Bandit]

Some of the AID was going to help people but an awful lot was NOT like......

 

• $1.5 million to “advance diversity equity and inclusion in Serbia’s workplaces and business communities”
• $70,000 for production of a “DEI musical” in Ireland
• $2.5 million for electric vehicles for Vietnam
• $47,000 for a “transgender opera” in Colombia
• $32,000 for a “transgender comic book” in Peru
• $2 million for sex changes and “LGBT activism” in Guatemala
• $6 million to fund tourism in Egypt
• Hundreds of thousands of dollars for a non-profit linked to designated terrorist organizations — even AFTER an inspector general launched an investigation
• Millions to EcoHealth Alliance — which was involved in research at the Wuhan lab
• “Hundreds of thousands of meals that went to al Qaeda-affiliated fighters in Syria”
• Funding to print “personalized” contraceptives birth control devices in developing countries
• Hundreds of millions of dollars to fund “irrigation canals, farming equipment, and even fertilizer used to support the unprecedented poppy cultivation and heroin production in Afghanistan,” benefiting the Taliban

[wombat]

Let's face it their cover has been blown,

Anyone with any suspicions has had them confirmed...

[thesetat]

53 minutes ago, Smokey and the Bandit said:

Some of the AID was going to help people but an awful lot was NOT like......

 

• $1.5 million to “advance diversity equity and inclusion in Serbia’s workplaces and business communities”
• $70,000 for production of a “DEI musical” in Ireland
• $2.5 million for electric vehicles for Vietnam
• $47,000 for a “transgender opera” in Colombia
• $32,000 for a “transgender comic book” in Peru
• $2 million for sex changes and “LGBT activism” in Guatemala
• $6 million to fund tourism in Egypt
• Hundreds of thousands of dollars for a non-profit linked to designated terrorist organizations — even AFTER an inspector general launched an investigation
• Millions to EcoHealth Alliance — which was involved in research at the Wuhan lab
• “Hundreds of thousands of meals that went to al Qaeda-affiliated fighters in Syria”
• Funding to print “personalized” contraceptives birth control devices in developing countries
• Hundreds of millions of dollars to fund “irrigation canals, farming equipment, and even fertilizer used to support the unprecedented poppy cultivation and heroin production in Afghanistan,” benefiting the Taliban

There are claims that this USAID was actually a CIA front and that only 1% of their budget actually went to help with food and medical supplies and care. The rest was for black ops, briberies, misinformation and other types. 

They need to be shut down and audited. The Dem controlled news outlets are making a big stink about how bad this is what Trump is doing. They are getting caught with their pants down now with a President that does not comply with their preset rules on continuing funding things that have been approved by them previously. 

 

I hope the future holds the Dems accountable for doing illegal activities around the world. 

 

I hope Trump begins his next probe and accountability to the government contractors who get paid 100 times more for things the government needs like 5000 dollar toilet cover and 50 dollar pencils (ie used as example only) 

 

 

[John Drake]

I'm seeing a confused emoji on every post critical of USAID. I guess there is still at lest one of the agency's employees in Bangkok at the embassy. Now, with time on their hands.

[John Drake]

35 minutes ago, thesetat said:

There are claims that this USAID was actually a CIA front and that only 1% of their budget actually went to help with food and medical supplies and care. The rest was for black ops, briberies, misinformation and other types. 

 

This was true during the Vietnam War and in the Secret War in Laos. You had USAID operatives assigned to individual villages, regional USAID directors, and USAID coordinators operating with CIA field agents. I know in Laos that the key USAID guy just packed his bags after the country fell and moved into Thailand where he set up shop again. They and the CIA case officers worked hand in hand with Air America, because aircraft were the only way you could move around the country.

[John Drake]

Anyone interested in USAID and CIA activities during the Secret War should look up the name, Pop Buell. Buell is long dead. And there was another important coordinator who as of seven or eight years ago was still here in Thailand. So I don't want to give out his name. The point is that this is a dirty agency, putting on a pretty face. We need transparency, because what they're doing now is tens if not hundreds of times more malicious and deceptive than during the 1960s and 1970s.

[JonnyF]

The party is over.

 

No more grifting while "generously" wasting other people's money.

 

Get a proper job.