Anonymous
Post 02/04/2025 17:59     Subject: Usaid terror
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This is horrible - there are many USAID direct hires and their families overseas. How are they getting home? Who is looking out for them?


They're being evacuated this week and if not home by Saturday, Trump is sending the military in.


That sounds like a cost savings! Maybe they should have planned a little bit better and everyone could have flown commercial.
Anonymous
Post 02/04/2025 17:52     Subject: Usaid terror
Anonymous wrote:This is horrible - there are many USAID direct hires and their families overseas. How are they getting home? Who is looking out for them?


They're being evacuated this week and if not home by Saturday, Trump is sending the military in.
Anonymous
Post 02/04/2025 17:09     Subject: Usaid terror
Very sad. But a cautionary take for every Fed. Get copies of all your HR stuff and get your personal stuff out of there.
Anonymous
Post 02/04/2025 17:05     Subject: Usaid terror
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I am sympathetic to the poster that keeps telling everyone to talk to their Congressman. Congress has to act. I hope that the poster similarly understands that many many of us do not have a Congressman bc we live in DC.


If you have friends in Maryland and Virginia, maybe you can ask them to get in touch with their reps. A lot of people--even smart ones--aren't aware of everything happening.


In MD and VA we used to have Republican representatives and senators, and if we still did they would have some pull. But now all the local congress people are Democrats.
Anonymous
Post 02/04/2025 16:58     Subject: Usaid terror
Anonymous wrote:This is horrible - there are many USAID direct hires and their families overseas. How are they getting home? Who is looking out for them?


Elon is on it.
Anonymous
Post 02/04/2025 16:56     Subject: Usaid terror
This is horrible - there are many USAID direct hires and their families overseas. How are they getting home? Who is looking out for them?
Anonymous
Post 02/04/2025 16:41     Subject: Usaid terror
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:More sad news:

Trump moves to put nearly all USAID Washington staff on leave
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/04/trump-administration-usaid-staff-on-leave-00202411


It said it would happen Tuesday. Did it happen?


I am the poster. The article was posted 2 hours ago, and I have no idea.
Anonymous
Post 02/04/2025 16:33     Subject: Usaid terror
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:People need to get out of denial stage and get job hunt going. That is the reality.

No one’s in denial, except the people thinking they have unilateral authority to close a federal agency.


Thinking they have the authority? They closed the place down with no pushback. For all intents and purposes, it's over.


No pushback? They were immediately visited by members of Congress, are being sued, and Rubio has since backtracked to say he’ll be submitting a plan to Congress to recommend the agency be shuttered. Meaning the administration admits it CANNOT shut down an agency all by itself. They lost this round.


Are people being told to report to work tomorrow?


Yes. The irony.


Well that’s sort of a relief. How about all those people stranded without funds and contacts?
Anonymous
Post 02/04/2025 16:30     Subject: Usaid terror
Anonymous wrote:More sad news:

Trump moves to put nearly all USAID Washington staff on leave
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/04/trump-administration-usaid-staff-on-leave-00202411


It said it would happen Tuesday. Did it happen?
Anonymous
Post 02/04/2025 16:22     Subject: Usaid terror
More sad news:

Trump moves to put nearly all USAID Washington staff on leave
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/04/trump-administration-usaid-staff-on-leave-00202411
Anonymous
Post 02/03/2025 20:05     Subject: Usaid terror
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:People need to get out of denial stage and get job hunt going. That is the reality.

No one’s in denial, except the people thinking they have unilateral authority to close a federal agency.


Thinking they have the authority? They closed the place down with no pushback. For all intents and purposes, it's over.


No pushback? They were immediately visited by members of Congress, are being sued, and Rubio has since backtracked to say he’ll be submitting a plan to Congress to recommend the agency be shuttered. Meaning the administration admits it CANNOT shut down an agency all by itself. They lost this round.


Are people being told to report to work tomorrow?


Yes. The irony.
Anonymous
Post 02/03/2025 19:34     Subject: Usaid terror
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:People need to get out of denial stage and get job hunt going. That is the reality.

No one’s in denial, except the people thinking they have unilateral authority to close a federal agency.


Thinking they have the authority? They closed the place down with no pushback. For all intents and purposes, it's over.


No pushback? They were immediately visited by members of Congress, are being sued, and Rubio has since backtracked to say he’ll be submitting a plan to Congress to recommend the agency be shuttered. Meaning the administration admits it CANNOT shut down an agency all by itself. They lost this round.


Are people being told to report to work tomorrow?
Anonymous
Post 02/03/2025 19:15     Subject: Re:Usaid terror
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Terror??

Really???
Do you know what Terror means?


Yes forcing your way into a federal agency and then taking it over is terror.


This is the democratic will of the people. Even the liberal press isn't covering this as a five alarm fire. It's well below the fold on Drudge. It sucks for the employees, but it's being met with a collective shrug.


It's not the democratic will of most voters, even Trump ones. And there are ways to do things and this is not the way.

The papers don't know how to handle the seriousness of this without sounding like crackpots because everything that is being done is literally insane and unbelievable.

These things are a big deal.


It’s a big deal, but the issue is that they spent so many years being “Chicken Little” and sounding the alarm when the sky wasn’t actually falling that people may stop paying attention when it is.
Anonymous
Post 02/03/2025 18:56     Subject: Usaid terror
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:People need to get out of denial stage and get job hunt going. That is the reality.

No one’s in denial, except the people thinking they have unilateral authority to close a federal agency.


Thinking they have the authority? They closed the place down with no pushback. For all intents and purposes, it's over.


No pushback? They were immediately visited by members of Congress, are being sued, and Rubio has since backtracked to say he’ll be submitting a plan to Congress to recommend the agency be shuttered. Meaning the administration admits it CANNOT shut down an agency all by itself. They lost this round.
Anonymous
Post 02/03/2025 18:37     Subject: Usaid terror
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:People need to get out of denial stage and get job hunt going. That is the reality.

No one’s in denial, except the people thinking they have unilateral authority to close a federal agency.


Thinking they have the authority? They closed the place down with no pushback. For all intents and purposes, it's over.