Aid workers fight back as Trump pushes to axe almost all USAID staffers

President Donald Trump speaks during the National Prayer Breakfast (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

The Trump administration presented a plan to dramatically cut staffing worldwide for US aid projects as part of its dismantling of the US Agency for International Development (USAID).

The proposed plan would see thousands of workers lose their jobs, with fewer than 300 positions left in the American organisation to administer humanitarian aid programmes around the world.