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Members and witnesses warn State Department and USAID staffing cuts, aid freezes risk U.S. security and influence
Summary
Members of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee and witnesses raised alarms that proposed workforce reductions at the State Department and freezes or cuts to foreign assistance, particularly at USAID, threaten U.S. national security, assistance to Ukraine and influence in Moldova and the Western Balkans.
Members of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe and witnesses at a reauthorization hearing warned that recent personnel reductions and frozen foreign assistance programs risked U.S. national-security interests and influence in Europe.
Representative Dina Titus (D-Nev.), citing reporting and staff briefings at the State Department, called proposed and executed layoffs “willful and malicious” and said they threaten programs that provide health services, election support and anti-corruption assistance abroad. “This has resulted in thousands of federal employees being fired,” Titus said, and she noted a circulating list of about 700 civil servants who could be dismissed and nearly 700…
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