USAID workers are preparing for the worst

The thousands of people who work for the main agency of the American government for humanitarian aid and help in the event of a disaster have been on the front line of efforts to fight against famine, contain virulent infectious diseases like HIV and Ebola, and Reconstruct infrastructure in the depleted and torn by the war.

On Friday evening, only a few hours before the vast majority of them were suspended with salary or licensee, a court made a temporary limited order against the Trump administration measures to close the agency.

The prescription was a temporary stay of around 2,700 direct hires of the American agency for international development which were on administrative leave or which should be placed on leave before midnight on Friday. In the past two weeks, they and the entrepreneurs who work for the agency had been plagued by collective panic when the Trump administration was starting to dismiss staff and reported that it was planning to decimate the agency.

But the workforce of the USAID, and the aid industry which is largely based on the financing of the agency, is still in the limbo. On Saturday, the USAID informed the employees affected by the prescription that the employees already on administrative leave would be restored until the end of Friday, February 14 and that no one else would be suspended with salary during this period, according to a copy In the opinion seen by the New York Times. But these employees may still have to wait for weeks, months or potentially even longer for a verdict. The case, which has been submitted on behalf of the unions representing workers, should go to the Supreme Court, and it is not clear if the jobs will exist again.

The announcement of the Trump administration this week according to which the USAID would reject almost all its entrepreneurs and that most of the officers of the external service and other direct hires would be on indefinite administrative leave to panic worldwide, then that the Americans have published in the missions abroad have dismantled themselves to disentangle and go up their lives.

The announcement gave external service agents only 30 days to leave their posts and return to the United States if they wanted the US government to pay their resettlement, forcing almost all the diplomatic staff to plan the gender that ‘Normally only while during strokes and wars.