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. 

[sherwood]

10,000 employees was a number I heard from Sen John Kennedy.

Why?

(Forbes News Feb 5 2025)

[CallumWK]

12 hours ago, Social Media said:

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.  

 

I hope they gonna do a better job than the Afghanistan evacuation.

[impulse]

I read a more comprehensive telling of the story and it seems there are all kinds of exceptions for families with kids in school, health care issues, and a number of other circumstances, in addition to assignments that are considered critical to US interests.

 

But if you're organizing Drag Queen story hours in Lower Slobovia, it's time to pack.

 

[impulse]

2 hours ago, John Drake said:

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.

 

That was my biggest disappointment with Obama.  He campaigned on increasing transparency, and he sorely disappointed on that front, going in the opposite direction.  

 

Scott Jennings at CNN described it best.  Trump's program is Radical Transparency.  Whether he'll deliver or not is anyone's guess.  But I wouldn't bet against him.

 

[Eric Loh]

I just wonder whether the Elon has thought of the USAID freeze will impact American farmers and could cost thousands of American jobs. US food purchases for foreign aid like wheat and soy purchases were halted and leaves farmers especially in Texas in deep disarray. The waiver was confusing with no clear cut regulations to untie the confusion. US farmers already facing low commodity prices and uncertainty from on and off tariffs now had an added pain. 

[impulse]

3 hours ago, Eric Loh said:

I just wonder whether the Elon has thought of the USAID freeze will impact American farmers and could cost thousands of American jobs. US food purchases for foreign aid like wheat and soy purchases were halted and leaves farmers especially in Texas in deep disarray. The waiver was confusing with no clear cut regulations to untie the confusion. US farmers already facing low commodity prices and uncertainty from on and off tariffs now had an added pain. 

 

There's hungry people in the USA, too.  Seems like there may be a silver lining.

 

Might even drive some of that Bidenflation out of the system.  I'm struggling to understand why everyone's complaining about the high cost of groceries when commodity prices are low.  Or is that just the MSM trying to find more to bitch about with Trump?

 

[Jingthing]

It's less than 1 percent of the US budget.

It has bought the U.S. invaluable good will and soft power, and save the lives of many millions of people.

Don't y'all get it?

Cutting this off KILLS millions.

Not only stupid, but EVIL.

[chondan]

A lot of  "tea money" went to Thai govt officials in the 70's.  

[impulse]

9 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

It's less than 1 percent of the US budget.

It has bought the U.S. invaluable good will and soft power, and save the lives of many millions of people.

Don't y'all get it?

Cutting this off KILLS millions.

Not only stupid, but EVIL.

 

Yeah.  'Cause every country wants their media to be biased US paid stooges, and their elections rigged.  They've been fomenting corruption all over the world.  With my money.

 

[chondan]

4 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

It's less than 1 percent of the US budget.

It has bought the U.S. invaluable good will and soft power, and save the lives of many millions of people.

Don't y'all get it?

Cutting this off KILLS millions.

Not only stupid, but EVIL.

It used to do that.  Now it is just pork barrel BS.

 

[Jingthing]

Just now, chondan said:

It used to do that.  Now it is just pork barrel BS.

 

That's a lie. 

[NickyLouie]

38 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

It's less than 1 percent of the US budget.

It has bought the U.S. invaluable good will and soft power, and save the lives of many millions of people.

Don't y'all get it?

Cutting this off KILLS millions.

Not only stupid, but EVIL.

 

You have no idea what you are talking about.

[Nick Carter icp]

40 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

It's less than 1 percent of the US budget.

It has bought the U.S. invaluable good will and soft power, and save the lives of many millions of people.

Don't y'all get it?

Cutting this off KILLS millions.

Not only stupid, but EVIL.

 

  Kills millions ?

Millions of who ?

Unless its innocent woman and children being killed , preferable starving innocent woman and children waiting in breadlines, then you aren't going to get hardly any sympathy at all 

[scottiejohn]

8 minutes ago, NickyLouie said:

 

You have no idea what you are talking about.

Since you have said nothing I wonder; Do you?

[Eric Loh]

54 minutes ago, impulse said:

There's hungry people in the USA, too.  Seems like there may be a silver lining.

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) helps feed the hungry in the U.S. 

[herfiehandbag]

4 hours ago, Eric Loh said:

I just wonder whether the Elon has thought of the USAID freeze will impact American farmers and could cost thousands of American jobs. US food purchases for foreign aid like wheat and soy purchases were halted and leaves farmers especially in Texas in deep disarray. The waiver was confusing with no clear cut regulations to untie the confusion. US farmers already facing low commodity prices and uncertainty from on and off tariffs now had an added pain. 

I heard a figure of 52000 jobs gone this week.

[scottiejohn]

13 minutes ago, NickyLouie said:

 

u couldn't carry my wet jock 

What does that mean and what is the relevance to my post or to the subject at hand?

[gamb00ler]

10 hours 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

It looks very familiar.  I think I must have seen the same bathroom wall where you found this precious information.

[Nick Carter icp]

5 minutes ago, gamb00ler said:

It looks very familiar.  I think I must have seen the same bathroom wall where you found this precious information.

 

   The Whitehouse website 

 

https://www.whitehouse.gov/uncategorized/2025/02/at-usaid-waste-and-abuse-runs-deep/

[impulse]

2 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

   The Whitehouse website 

 

https://www.whitehouse.gov/uncategorized/2025/02/at-usaid-waste-and-abuse-runs-deep/

 

They just don't give up, do they?  Even when there's videos, receipts, bank statements and whistleblowers out the wazoo.

 

[Yellowtail]

57 minutes ago, Eric Loh said:

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) helps feed the hungry in the U.S. 

Making America Healthy Again, everybody's too fat anyway. 

 

The "hungry" in the US, hilarious.