# Approximately two-thousand US Agency for International Development employees around the world have been laid off, while some four-thousand-200 staff have been placed on paid administrative leave. Last Friday, a federal judge cleared the way for the Trump administration to put thousands of USAID workers on leave. USAID is the world’s biggest single donor of humanitarian aid. Tech billionaire Elon Musk, who leads the Department of Government Efficiency, has called USAID a criminal organisation, and a viper’s nest of radical-left Marxists who hate America.
USAID has laid off 2,000 employees and others placed on paid administrative leave