A senior official with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) warned in an email on March 2 that the Trump administration’s dismantling of the agency will result in unnecessary deaths—only to email his staff less than 30 minutes later to say that he had been placed on leave.
Nicholas Enrich, USAID’s acting assistant administrator for global health, in a seven-page memorandum shared with staff members on March 2, said “political leadership” had made it impossible to deliver lifesaving humanitarian assistance around the world, contradicting assurances from Secretary of State Marco Rubio that such aid would continue despite President Donald Trump’s and presidential adviser Elon Musk’s cost-cutting campaign.
