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Ready, Slash, Aim: USAID-State Merger Proceeding Without Key Plans, IG Finds

Defense One – No strategic workforce plan is guiding the Trump administration’s effort to fold the U.S. Agency for International Development into the State Department, the department’s inspector general said in a new report. Nearly all USAID employees will be laid off under reduction-in-force procedures on July 1 or September 2. The functions of the independent foreign-aid agency are to be absorbed by State, which plans to hire significantly fewer staff than USAID employs.

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