{"id":6525,"date":"2025-02-24T04:21:26","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T04:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/2000-usaid-staff-to-be-cut-others-put-on-administrative-leave\/"},"modified":"2025-02-24T04:21:26","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T04:21:26","slug":"2000-usaid-staff-to-be-cut-others-put-on-administrative-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/2000-usaid-staff-to-be-cut-others-put-on-administrative-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"2,000 USAID staff to be cut, others put on administrative leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration is putting all civil servants employed by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) on administrative leave beginning Monday at midnight, according to a notice reviewed by Blue Light News.&nbsp; At the same time, 2,000 staff are expected to be cut from the agency in the U.S&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5160250-nearly-all-usaid-to-be-put-on-administrative-leave-2000-jobs-cut-after-judge-clears-path\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration is putting all civil servants employed by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) on administrative leave beginning Monday at midnight, according to a notice reviewed by Blue Light News.&nbsp; At the same time, 2,000 staff are expected to be cut from the agency in the U.S&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}