Trump’s external aid reduces job plans for young public employees

President Donald Trump is pushing the US Agency for International Development and Restinguing the Federal Manpower that caused the injury to those who recently entered the hope of obtaining long and stable jobs in public service.

Chrisna Patel, 23, said that she had applied for unemployment insurance last week after being lay off from her job in a program managed by the US Agency for International Development in part. I worked there for only four months after obtaining a master’s degree in public health from Oregon State University last spring.

She said, “You never expect that to happen to you, especially because you have told the federal government safe and that you have functional security and great benefits.”

Patel has been among the full -time contractors who have been left in recent weeks after the Trump administration Foreign aid financing temporarily stopped For 90 days, quoting the need to conduct a “evaluation of software efficiency and consistency with the foreign policy of the United States”.

Earlier this month, the administration moved to the closure of the United States Agency for International Development, which is the agency at the heart of the nation’s humanitarian work abroad, and put thousands of employees on an administrative leave. A federal judge temporarily suspended this measure on Friday, and this week’s court rulings have slowed the efforts of the Federal Manpower.

But for many contractors and workers in NGOs funded by the United States Agency for International Development, which has already been subjected or demobilized, temporary suspension will not help. On Friday, the referee allowed the freeze of the recent Ministry of Foreign Affairs to finance foreign aid to continue during the hearing on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, the White House also targets the so -called “testing” government employees due to discounts and signs, many of whom rent early in experimental periods that make them more vulnerable to dismissal.

“Now I must pay the rent, and I must pay my bills with limited income and anything that remains in my bank account,” Patel said, adding that it is applying to all kinds of jobs, including in the private sector. “I discovered, for example, how much money did you leave to stay here?”

Youth Those who are attracted to work in the government Federally backed public service organizations often accept the financial traits to get an opportunity to make an effect. Government employees tend to Make 17.6 % less One of the private sector workers is similarly educated, according to the Institute of Economic Policy, a research center that tends to the left. The group found that the difference is still 14.5 %.

“At the end of the day, the work that we do is Aids Refive (Pepfar), a multi -agent program launched by George W. Bush in 2003, supports health workers who provide HIV care in more From 50 countries. She said: “It is very frustrated, hearing voices, especially our current administration, they say that federal workers do not offer what is expected.”

Rawan Travis, 25, was not surprised that he was demobilized from his contracting role in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on January 27. During his last week, he rushed to the metal to complete the work to help his team if he was left.

“I have already been told several times that it is likely to be removed from my position,” he said.

Travis was a foreign assistant coordinator for Papoa Guinea, which included analyzing how US financing achieved strategic goals there. He said as a contractor, he recently obtained a desirable offer to join the civil service as a direct employment in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but it has been canceled due to Executive order for federal employment Trump fell on his first day in office.

Travis said that leaving the work for the last time on the twenty -seventh of “terrible”. “Even if you know that everyone around you knows that it is not your mistake, it is still not a good feeling out of your office and you should say goodbye.”

Travis is now facing a strong job market but saturated with young professionals. It is feared that the opportunities will be limited, so it looks at jobs in both the public and private sectors. He said that the bullish trend is the support he gets from his peers in a similar position.

Since the US International Development Agency banners were stripped of its headquarters in Washington, DC, on Friday, the effects of freezing external aid through government agencies, as well as organizations funded by them.

In December, Zach Forster, 25, got the “dream function” in IREX, a non -governmental organization based in the capital focusing on civil education. Setting the task for its use in university studies and graduate studies in international relations and public policy. He recalls the desire to be an officer in the foreign school service, and while he said that the development work is far from perfection, it is an important way to support democracy all over the world.

He said: “This industry lasted contracts to establish it, and now, in less than a week, it has just been obligated.”

Forster said that his organization made deep discounts for its power operating on January 31 84 % of IREX financing comes from the United States governmentIncluding the American Agency for International Development and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Forrester has a family and friends support system, but he said that the ends of Washington will be difficult.

“I am very afraid of many of my colleagues and friends who are now starting,” he said.

IREX did not respond to the comment.

Randy Chester, Vice President of the American Foreign Service Association, which represents foreign service officers, fears that many young people in this field will turn to private companies, which transforms an important part of the talent pipeline in the public sector. The American Agency for International Development was promoting the Youth Foreign Service through Ziamat and other programs.

“They will definitely leave the work of the federal government,” Chester predicts. “I don’t see much opportunities to work in the federal government in the future.”

He said that he obtained more than 50 email messages daily from members of the US Foreign Service, including those in their twenties, expressing their concerns about their direct and long -term future. He said that this newer generation did not win pensions or accumulated benefits, so they are left without much of the financial safety net.

Aidan Row, 24, is accustomed to spending his days helping refugees and asylum researchers to find jobs in the United States now, who is more than half of his colleagues in global service, a global humanitarian non -governmental organization, outside the jobs themselves after they have been hunger. almost 85 % of the organization’s programsWhich includes relief from disasters, reduced poverty and resettlement of refugees, is funded by the government.

“Everyone I know in this space is angry, and I say this is low,” said Row, who works outside the World Service Office in Miami.

A spokesman for NGOs said Join Monday’s lawsuit Through an alliance of invitation groups that seeks to restart a refugee resettlement program, the Trump administration recently commented.

In a statement that the global church service that was issued on February 4, President and CEO Rick Santos said that the chaos of recent weeks already affects beneficiaries of his group’s work: “The painful decision to subjugate many of our employees means that in all parts of the country, refugees will face families and other Protected groups are legally arrivals, a problem in accessing health care, assistance in housing, legal services, and even basic basics such as warm winter coats for their children.

Row said that he is concerned about providing health insurance and living costs, but he is determined to stay in the humanitarian field.

He said, “It motivates me more.” “It makes this work feel more important than ever.”