USAID is holding a fire sale to get rid of all the equipment it planned to use on the 5,000-plus projects Trump canceled

Source: The Independent

USAID is holding a fire sale to get rid of all the equipment it planned to use on the 5,000-plus projects Trump canceled

Millions of dollars in equipment has been sold, redistributed, abandoned, or lost after Trump administration guts foreign aid agency

Josh Marcus
in San Francisco
Thursday 28 August 2025 11:28 BST

The Trump administration is reportedly selling, redistributing, or simply losing track of millions of dollars worth of equipment and supplies connected to the U.S. Agency for International Development, the foreign aid agency it shuttered and folded into the State Department earlier this year.

As a result, former USAID staffers and contractors told The Atlantic, the U.S. appears to be parting with equipment for pennies on the dollar and losing track of what was once carefully monitored U.S. property, raising security concerns.

The U.S. embassy in Guatemala has auctioned off electronics like iPads, ring lights, megaphones, and defibrillators, while a USAID warehouse in Nigeria sold off computer supplies and used generators, according to the magazine.

Others tied to the doomed agency, which formally folded at the beginning in July, have tried to distribute their life-saving supplies to NGOs and governments who might put them to use, even though they haven’t been formally directed to by the U.S. government.

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Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/usaid-equipment-sale-projects-canceled-trump-defund-b2815242.html

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