A USAID team lead in the Middle East and North Africa region has called on diplomats, aid workers, and U.S. State Department staffers to “refuse to comply” with the Trump administration’s stop-work order.
“We must refuse to be ordered to throw our oaths of office in the trash by an unelected oligarch or his cronies,” the team lead said in a speech to internal staff, referring to Elon Musk who heads the Department of Government Efficiency.
“Collective refusal is the most lawful and ethical course of action,” they added.