USAID said it would work with the State Department to organize and pay trips on their return for many staff located outside the United States for a month.
Exception employees will be told 15:00 EDT (20:00 GMT) on Thursday.
A statement. external Posted on the USAID website ends with the message: “Thank you for the service.”
Agency providing humanitarian aid by more than 100 countries, 10,000 people around the world and two-thirds of these people are working abroad, reports the Congress Research Service.
On Tuesday, many USAID staff received an electronic message stating that they were placed on a paid administrative vacation.
In an email received by BBC News, staff reported that they should remain “available” and email during working hours but cannot enter USAID buildings.
Since returning to the White House last month, Trump and his allies preferred to reduce state funding.
As part of this step, Trump’s administration focused on USAID.
Earlier this week, Secretary of State Mark Rubio became the acting head of the USAID, uniting one state agency into another.
Elon Musk, CEO of the billionaire Tesla, who was designed to manage the new agency to identify the cost reduction of the US government, said USAID should be closed because it is “outside the repair”.
Many warn that the closure of the USAID door will be a devastating effect on vulnerable populations worldwide.
USAID activities varies from securing limb prosthetics to soldiers who have suffered in Ukraine, to clean the mines and maintenance of Ebola’s fever in Africa.
The Democrats in Washington were particularly critical of this step.
“(USAID is a foreign policy tool with a two -party origin, which is crucial in this dangerous global environment,” – wrote in the social media Senator New Jersey Andy Kim. “Squeezing means that squeeze our ability to compete and preserve America. .
The 1961 agency has bases in 60 countries and works in dozens of others.
The USAID managed more than $ 40 billion (£ 32.25 billion) in the 2023 financial year, according to the Congress Research Service.
