Title: At Least Fifty-Six USAID Senior Officials Put On Leave Amid Investigation Into Effort To Thwart Trump's Orders

In the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), at least fifty-six senior officials were put on leave on Monday, amid an investigation into an alleged effort to thwart U.S. President Donald Trump's orders.A current official and a former one confirmed the reason; they also said that several hundred contractors based in Washington and elsewhere were also laid off.The personnel actions follow Trump's executive order last week that directed a sweeping 90-day pause on most US foreign assistance disbursed through the State Department.As a result of the freeze, thousands of U.S.-funded humanitarian, development, and security programs worldwide had stopped work or were preparing to do so. Without funds to pay staff, aid organizations were laying off hundreds of employees.An internal USAID notice sent on Monday night and obtained by The Associated Press said new acting administrator Jason Gray had identified "several actions within USAID that appear to be designed to circumvent the President's Executive Orders and the mandate from the American people.""As a result, we have placed a number of USAID employees on administrative leave with full pay and benefits until further notice while we complete our analysis of these actions," Gray wrote.Trump has signed many executive orders since taking office a week ago, but the notice did not say which orders the employees were suspected of violating.

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