Loading ...Catholic Relief Services lays off staff, cuts programs after USAID shakeup
Catholic Relief Services is bracing for massive cuts — as much as 50% this year — because of draconian reductions in U.S. foreign assistance ordered by the Trump administration, according to an internal email from the chief executive of the international relief organization.
Layoffs have already begun as CRS has been forced to begin shutting down programs funded by USAID, which supplies about half of the Catholic organization’s $1.5 billion budget, said CRS president and CEO Sean Callahan in a staffwide email sent Feb. 3. “We anticipate that we will be a much smaller overall organization by the end of this fiscal year,”
One of many organization crying the blues — also one of (if not the main) the organizations orchestrating the influx of illegal migrants into the USA — but that’s a different story for another time.