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Nonilex<p>The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> admin is terminating nearly all of the remaining 900 employees of the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USAID" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USAID</span></a>, in a final reduction-in-force <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RIF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RIF</span></a>.</p><p>Virtually no one will be spared, not even political appointees, acc/to 2 snr USAID ofcls….</p><p>Staff were ordered to leave "the front office" by 1PM on Fri for reasons that are not clear, the ofcls said. But they may still be asked to continue working for a few months.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Aid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Aid</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/geopolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geopolitics</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SoftPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SoftPower</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/03/28/g-s1-56968/usaid-terminates-nearly-all-its-remaining-employees" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">npr.org/sections/goats-and-sod</span><span class="invisible">a/2025/03/28/g-s1-56968/usaid-terminates-nearly-all-its-remaining-employees</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>The federal <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/StudentLoan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StudentLoan</span></a> portfolio — which includes about $1.6T in loans for ~43M borrowers — is currently overseen by the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Education</span></a> Dept's office of Federal <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Student" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Student</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Aid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Aid</span></a> (<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FSA</span></a>). That office has been gutted by the recent raft of buyouts, early retirements &amp; last week's broad reduction-in-force [<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RIF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RIF</span></a>].</p><p>It was not clear, based on <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>'s announcement, how or if the remaining employees &amp; expertise at FSA would be transferred to the SBA.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/regulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>regulation</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/kleptocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>kleptocracy</span></a></p>