February 6, 2025

The gutting of USAID is just a start

 Axios - The Trump administration's gutting of USAID is just a start: Elon Musk and President Trump's Cabinet and advisers are combing through agencies to purge those deemed to be anti-Trump, anti-American or too "woke," top officials tell Axios' Marc Caputo.  Trump promised during his campaign to root out what he called the "Deep State" — institutional resistance. But the speed and tactics of Trump's vengeance-fueled cost-cutting efforts have been astonishing.

The CIA on Tuesday became the first major security agency to offer "buyouts" to its entire workforce. Fresh off her Senate confirmation, Attorney General Pam Bondi is establishing a "Weaponization Working Group" to analyze the actions of federal prosecutors and FBI agents in the criminal cases the Justice Department brought against Trump. It also will examine the New York civil and criminal cases brought against him....

Trump is focused on the Justice Department for prosecuting him. But the State Department and the National Security Council are two major ideological battlegrounds where officials say they expect to encounter "resistance" liberals.  More.=


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