Foreign Aid Terminated, Migrants At Guantánamo, Legal Challenges To Federal Firings

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🗓️ 27 February 2025

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The Trump administration says it will end more than 90 percent of the U.S. Agency for International Development's foreign aid contracts. NPR spoke to two immigrants sent to Guantánamo who allege mistreatment by detainment officers, and a federal judge will hear arguments over the Trump administration's firing of probationary employees.

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0:00.0	Hey, hey, good morning.
0:02.1	Hello.
0:03.3	I'm doing my vocal exercises.
0:05.7	Excellent.
0:06.9	The brown cow needs.
0:09.3	My mother mails me money.
0:12.0	Unique New York.
0:13.9	That's mine.
0:14.8	No, that's mine.
0:16.2	You should have an L.A. one.
0:17.6	New York.
0:21.0	This is my process, Michelle.
0:22.8	I know.
0:23.4	I'm totally into it.
0:25.5	All right.
0:26.2	We ready.
0:29.4	USAID has been effectively gutted.
0:32.5	90% of the agency's foreign aid programs have been halted and defunded.
0:37.0	What happens now to its ongoing humanitarian projects?
0:40.3	I'm Michelle Martin. That's A. Martinez, and this is up first from NPR News.
0:47.9	Two Venezuelan men who were detained at Guantanamo for weeks till NPR, they were denied access to lawyers and calls to family.
0:54.7	That's very different from how immigration detention is typically done.
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