The Trump administration cut the US Agency for International Development’s workforce to the bone on Thursday Feb. 6, reducing the embattled agency’s global staff from 10,000 people down to less than 300.
Pataki, who has visited Ukraine multiple times as part of relief efforts, said he was stunned that the US Agency for International Development would not give his pro-Ukrainian charitable initiative the time of day under the Biden administration.“I’ve had some experience with USAID , and it’s been awful,” New York’s former gov said.
Inside Trump’s hectic day-to-day schedule – with prez revealing the phrase that keeps going through his mind when he first wakes upthe Trump administration from placing thousands of employees at USAID on paid leave Friday, halting the president’s plans to cut its workforce down to just a few hundred.
“What they were doing under Biden was criminal. … You have to clean house, and that’s what is doing,” the former three-term governor said.1,000 heaters and generators and tons of medical and hygiene supplies and helped construct mobile housing for refugees in the same war — yet said he got no cooperation with USAID.
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