Johns Hopkins University has begun hiring new employees in overseas countries as a result of Donald Trump’s breaks to USAID.
Almost 2, 000 Johns Hopkins University jobs will no longer be subventioned by American citizens.
According to what the management perceives as wasteful spending, President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have plans to substantially reduce the US Agency for International Development. Yet, some claim that USAID performs lifesaving missions abroad.
This includes Johns Hopkins University, which claims that quarter of its funding comes from national study grants and that will reduce 1, 975 foreign work and 247 stateside employees as a result of Trump’s reductions.
According to NBC News, the school declared to the press that” this day is difficult for our entire community.” The termination of more than$ 800 million in USAID funding is now making it difficult for us to finish important projects in Baltimore and around the world.
However, the majority of that” essential job” is not performed in Baltimore, but rather in “44 other nations in support of the school’s Bloomberg School of Public Health, its medical university, and an associated volunteer business,” according to CBS News.
In a March 4 statement, the school had earlier warned of upcoming breaks:
We have seen a swift and extensive sequence of executive commands and firm steps affecting higher learning and federally funded research over the past six weeks [since Trump’s inauguration]. What started out as stop-work orders or grant-grant cash pauses has since become cancellations and terminations. Grant programs submitted by our coworkers are not being evaluated or recommended for money in a timely manner because grant reviews at several companies have been suspended. Although we are not yet certain of the reach and scope of their research work, we anticipate that different areas will experience significant reductions in national actions in the upcoming months.
Only 18 % of USAID’s programs, according to a State Department assessment, merit saving.
After reviewing for 6 weeks, we are formally canceled 83 % of USAID’s programs.
The 5200 deals that are currently being terminated used tens of billions of dollars in ways that did no support, and in some cases even hurt, the United States ‘ fundamental national interests.
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— Marco Rubio ( @marcorubio ) March 10, 2025
According to Secretary Rubio, USAID” spent tens of billions of dollars in ways that did no function, and in some cases even harmed, the main national interests of the United States.”
Rubio stated on X last week that” we intend for the remaining 18 % of our programs ( roughly 1000 ) to now be administered more effectively under the State Department” in consultation with Congress.
” Thank you to Expand and our dedicated staff who put in long hours to complete this illiberal and ancient reform.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks to a group while traveling abroad, State Department/Facebook.
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