U.S. Agency for International Development staff members started receiving notifications Sunday that they would lose their jobs due to a widespread effort to reduce the agency’s workforce.
These personalized emails — of which Devex obtained copies — were sent by Peter Marocco, acting deputy administrator of the agency. They are the latest step in the rapid-fire dismantling of the agency over the past month.
“This [reduction in force] is necessary to restructure USAID’s operations to better reflect Agency priorities and the foreign policy priorities of the United States,” he wrote.