The USAID tap has run dry, and its disbandment has sent tremors around the globe. The freeloaders in the developing world, various governments and NGOs, received a seismic shock.

Those who depended primarily on USAID for their viability, survivability, and sustainability are on tenterhooks. There has been fast-track shedding of employees at most of these NGOs once they realized that this “catastrophic” situation occurred after a pragmatic tech billionaire saw through this worn-out concept of a free lunch and closed down the cafeteria.

Although a number of NGOs are providing yeoman services, the ground reality is that many of them took USAID as a matter of habit, as a source of easy money, and as a channel of continuous funding. Now what? They never expected DOGE led by Elon Musk would be the Grim Reaper.

President Donald J Trump along with Elon Musk forcefully embarked on the mission to Make America Great Again. There has been a fundamental change in which the bloated American bureaucracy is being sent home right, left, and center.

The Department of Government Efficiency has implemented significant reductions in the federal workforce. Reports indicate that at least 100,000 of the 2.3 million federal employees have been laid off or accepted buyouts since Trump’s inauguration in January. The target is to cut down 10 percent of the federal workforce.

At the same time, America is revisiting its commitments to many international as well as domestic organizations. It has withdrawn from WHO, Paris Club, etc., and has reduced or plan to reduce contributions to many international organizations. The United Nations Agencies are also in the firing line.

Trump has withdrawn the US from UN Human Rights Council. UNESCO may be next. After that ILO, because the US military-industrial complex as well as tech billionaires are not too ardent about Worker Rights, Labour Standards, etc. ILO constituents (Workers, Employers,........

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