Trump Suspends Officials

Well, folks, it looks like some of our illustrious career bureaucrats at USAID thought they could play games with President Trump’s orders. Turns out, they were wrong.

In a move that has sent shockwaves through the Washington swamp, Trump’s administration has placed around 60 senior officials from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) on indefinite administrative leave after discovering that they were actively working to circumvent his executive orders. That’s right—these so-called “public servants” thought they could ignore the will of the president and, by extension, the American people. Instead, they got sent to the penalty box with full pay and benefits, which is frankly more than they deserve.

The move came after acting USAID Administrator Jason Gray issued a blunt memo stating that his office had identified several actions within the agency that were deliberately designed to evade Trump’s policies. This is exactly the kind of rogue, unaccountable behavior that has defined the bloated bureaucratic class in D.C. for decades. They don’t like the elected president’s agenda? No problem—they just slow-roll, obstruct, and outright refuse to follow orders.

Well, not anymore.

The decision to bench these bureaucrats effectively freezes most of USAID’s $22.6 billion in program funding—a staggering sum of money that, let’s be honest, hasn’t exactly been spent wisely. This is the same agency that funnels billions in taxpayer dollars overseas, much of it to questionable causes, activist NGOs, and corrupt foreign governments that hate America. If you’ve ever wondered why so much of our “foreign aid” seems to disappear into black holes of waste and fraud, USAID is a prime suspect.

And let’s not forget—this agency was a major player in the Biden administration’s radical DEI agenda, funding programs that had nothing to do with real development and everything to do with pushing leftist ideology around the world. So, when Trump ordered a full freeze on new foreign aid designations and applications, it’s no surprise that the entrenched leadership at USAID tried to ignore him.

But here’s the kicker—this mass purge includes nearly every senior career staffer in Washington. One official described it as “like taking out all the generals.” To which I say: Good. If the “generals” are working against the president, maybe they shouldn’t be “generals” in the first place.

The D.C. establishment is, predictably, horrified by this. A former Trump administration official even called it a “huge morale hit.” Well, maybe that’s the point. Maybe it’s time that the senior executive class, particularly in agencies like USAID, starts feeling a little uncomfortable.

For too long, these bureaucrats have operated with a mindset of “we know better”—as if they are somehow above the elected government. They forget that their job is to execute policy, not make it. Trump understands this, and that’s exactly why he’s making it clear that defying orders has consequences.

This review is going to be painful for some, no doubt. But you know what? That’s a small price to pay for bringing accountability back to government. If these USAID officials were trying to run their own little shadow operation, they deserve to be sidelined. If they were violating orders, they should be fired.