The final nail has been hammered into the coffin of USAID.

After months of laying off employees and making cuts to the corrupt agency, the State Department just notified Congress that USAID will be officially dissolved.

The agency’s new deputy director and former DOGE official Jeremy Lewin stated that the State Department will “assume responsibility for many of USAID’s functions and its ongoing programming,” going forward.

In other words, any remaining USAID foreign aid programs will now be merged with and taken on by the State Department. The agency itself will cease to exist.

Take a look:

Goodbye and good riddance!

This is a huge win towards DOGE’s end goal to rid the government of wasteful spending and fraud.

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It’s also a genius move by the Trump administration to sidestep the courts and eliminate the agency through a creative merger.

George explained just how smart of a decision this was:

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BREAKING: After many court orders attempting to force the reinstatement of USAID, the Trump Administration just issued a final memo to remaining staffers telling them they’re FIRED as part of a merger with the Department of State. ABSOLUTELY GENIUS! “As Secretary Rubio has said, following congressional consultations, the State Department intends to assume responsibility for many of USAID’s functions and its ongoing programming… Accordingly, the Department will seek to retire USAID’s independent operation, consistent with applicable law.” “As part of that process, substantially all non-statutory positions at USAID will be eliminated. As a result, USAID personnel globally will be subject to a consolidated Reduction-In-Force (“RIF”) action.” This is some beautiful creativity. The courts said USAID had to be revived, but they never said anything about it merging with the State Department and getting deleted anyway.

More details from Fox News:

The State Department is absorbing the remaining operations and programs U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) runs, upending its function as an independent agency, according to an internal USAID memo obtained by Fox News Digital.

While USAID historically has functioned as an independent agency that works to deliver aid to impoverished countries and development assistance, President Donald Trump appointed Secretary of State Marco Rubio to serve as acting administrator of the organization in February amid concerns that USAID did not advance U.S. core interests.

Now, the State Department is poised to officially take on USAID programs as part of a merger that aims to streamline operations to deliver foreign assistance, the memo said. It also will result in cuts for thousands of USAID employees.

“By bringing USAID’s core life-saving and strategic aid programs under the umbrella of the State Department, this Administration will significantly enhance the efficiency, accountability, uniformity, and strategic impact of foreign assistance programs — and ensure that our nation and President to speaks with one voice in foreign affairs,” Jeremy Lewin, who is performing the duties of USAID Deputy Administrator for Policy and Programming & Chief Operating Officer, said in a Friday statement to Fox News Digital.

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As a result, the State Department is moving to “retire” USAID as an independent operation and is moving forward with plans for a reduction in force, according to the memo. Altogether, more than 4,650 USAID personnel will be cut from USAID — including the more than 1,500 people whose jobs already were slashed, according to a State Department senior official.

ABC News also reported:

The State Department said Friday it was officially shuttering the U.S. Agency for International Development, in what could deal a final blow to the beleaguered foreign aid agency.

In a memo distributed to USAID employees and obtained by ABC News, Jeremy Lewin, the agency’s new deputy director and a former Department of Government Efficiency official, wrote that the State Department “intends to assume responsibility for many of USAID’s functions and its ongoing programming.”

The State Department “will seek to retire USAID’s independent operation” immediately and “assess” whether to rehire some unknown number of officials to “assume the responsible administration of USAID’s remaining life-saving and strategic aid programming,” the memo said.

“This transfer will significantly enhance efficiency, accountability, uniformity, and strategic impact in delivering foreign assistance programs — allowing our nation and President to speak with one voice in foreign affairs,” according to the memo.

“It will also obviate the need for USAID to continue operating as an independent establishment,” the memo said.

As part of the move, the memo said, “all non-statutory positions at USAID will be eliminated.”

Trump administration officials, including Elon Musk’s DOGE group, have leading a widespread effort to dismantle the agency by laying off thousands of employees, revoking funding for more than 80% of its programs, and shedding its Washington, D.C., headquarters.

 

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