No strategic workforce plan is guiding the Trump administration's effort to fold the U.S. Agency for International Development into the State Department, the department's inspector general said in a new report.

Nearly all USAID employees will be laid off under reduction-in-force procedures on July 1 or Sept. 2. The functions of the independent foreign-aid agency are to be absorbed by State, which plans to handle them by bringing on 308 U.S. direct-hire staff, 370 locally employed staff, and 40 personal services contractors. That's less than one-tenth of USAID's workforce in fiscal 2024, which had nearly 4,500 domestic direct-hire staff, 5,000 local staff, and more than 1,000 contractors.

In a report issued on Monday, the inspector general's office found that although State leaders h

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