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USAID workers at Washington HQ told to stay home on Monday in unexpected, early-morning email
CNN ^ | Mon February 3, 2025 | Lauren Kent

Posted on 02/03/2025 5:24:44 AM PST by MinorityRepublican

The main office of the US Agency for International Development in Washington was unexpectedly closed Monday and workers were emailed shortly after midnight that they should not come in, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.

“At the direction of Agency leadership, the USAID headquarters at the Ronald Reagan building in Washington, D.C. will be closed to Agency personnel on Monday, February 3, 2025. Agency personnel normally assigned to work at USAID headquarters will work remotely tomorrow, with the exception of personnel with essential on-site and building maintenance functions individually contacted by senior leadership,” said the email, of which CNN has obtained a copy.

It’s the latest ominous sign for the longtime international aid agency, which has found itself in the crosshairs of President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s effort to reform the federal government.

In a conversation on X Spaces early Monday, the tech entrepreneur said Trump agrees that the agency needs to be “shut down” following days of speculation over its future after its funding was frozen and dozens of its employees were put on leave. Trump has said USAID is “run by a bunch of radical lunatics, and we’re getting them out.”

Over the weekend, two top security officials at USAID were put on administrative leave for refusing members of the Department of Government Efficiency access to systems at the agency, even when DOGE personnel threatened to call law enforcement, multiple sources familiar with the situation told CNN.

USAID logos and photos showing the humanitarian work the agency does around the globe were removed from its offices last week, multiple sources told CNN.

“All of the visuals have been taken down. These are like large-scale photos of our work in developing countries that are in our lobbies, in our galleys, in communal kitchens, hallways,”

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
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1 posted on 02/03/2025 5:24:44 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Standard CIA cover, choose a “noble humanitarian front” use it to fund and organize seditious and oppressively regime projects.


2 posted on 02/03/2025 5:28:32 AM PST by Skwor
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To: MinorityRepublican

USAID is a money laundering operation for the Deep State, funding anti-US NGOs and organizations.

We now know Bill Krystol was on their payroll to be a warmonger and anti-Trumper.

I bet the Lincoln Project received tons of money as well.


3 posted on 02/03/2025 5:28:33 AM PST by Erik Latranyi (This is the end of the Republic....because we could not keep it.)
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To: Liz; bitt
[USAID workers at Washington HQ told to stay home on Monday in unexpected, early-morning email]


4 posted on 02/03/2025 5:28:34 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: MinorityRepublican

HOORAY Donald J Trump, Elon Musk and Mike Benz!


5 posted on 02/03/2025 5:31:40 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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6 posted on 02/03/2025 5:32:16 AM PST by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I’m sure the folks trying to rebuild in North Carolina could use some of that USAID cash. Or should we continue to send it to Bumfolk Egypt?


7 posted on 02/03/2025 5:34:02 AM PST by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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Freeper ransomnote insightfully tells us:
<><>MSM flunkies are in collusion with “do-good” USAID
<><>colluding to hide that 25% of USAID tax dollars to foreign entities is for weapons/defense;
<><>they demean Trump and are conning readers
<><>insisting Trump is denying orphans and widows drinking water, food, Humanitarian aid.

USAID swears it is a “do-gooder”-— delivering heat, light, food, water, Ukraine’s firewood to the needy.

So when we hear talk of USAID’s “classified information” secured in top secret “SCIFs,” we want to know what kind of classified information?

Tax paid “do-good” USAID officials don’t want to talk about
<><>giving 10% to the ‘Big Guy’,
<><>disguising the true purpose of tax dollars,
<><>shipping crates of tax dollars to Globalist despots around the world,
<><>all while sap-happily chatting around the water cooler.

Wiki’s definition: SCIFs are related to military, national security/national defense and intelligence. Do-good USAID was overly ‘active’ in those realms, yet the MSM rattles on about Trump denying orphans and widows clothing/food/heat/light/water.


8 posted on 02/03/2025 5:34:49 AM PST by Liz
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To: Psalm 73
FWIW, foreign aid to Egypt is a great use of our tax dollars. We are helping to keep the Egyptian military in power. They're rational. The alternative is the Muslim Brotherhood.

Even Trump did not put a pause to foreign aid to Egypt.

9 posted on 02/03/2025 5:39:10 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: Diogenesis

NV is Switzerland? What are they getting, lederhose?


10 posted on 02/03/2025 5:41:23 AM PST by 9422WMR
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To: MinorityRepublican

Which once again shows Trump and his team has had this well planned out in advance, this is a heavy and precise assault on well identified targets.


11 posted on 02/03/2025 5:42:13 AM PST by Skwor
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To: MinorityRepublican

Many of us have always wondered where the money comes from to do some of the rotten things they do. We can’t see it specifically allocated by Congress. They elites always couch their wrongdoing with names depicting a noble cause.

So now we get the picture.

Lots of screaming going on right now. The cancer that has embedded itself and grown to stage 4 is not happy with being cut out.


12 posted on 02/03/2025 5:42:56 AM PST by dforest
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To: MinorityRepublican

I hope they remembered to lock everyone out of the systems.

L


13 posted on 02/03/2025 5:43:31 AM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

winning!


14 posted on 02/03/2025 5:44:09 AM PST by SisterK (it's controlled demolition)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Got a feeling this might be one of Bidens money laundering filters.


15 posted on 02/03/2025 5:47:58 AM PST by mware
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To: MinorityRepublican
""Trump has said USAID is “run by a bunch of radical lunatics, and we’re getting them out."

THIS is just SO COOL.!!

GO TRUMP GO..!!

16 posted on 02/03/2025 5:48:57 AM PST by unread (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the REPUBLIC..!)
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To: Skwor

Yep - just waiting for all the good footage of the ‘vampires’ being dragged screaming into the sunlight.

This week should be LEGENDARY in terms of shrieking media trying to head this off at the pass.


17 posted on 02/03/2025 5:52:52 AM PST by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: MinorityRepublican

The USAID is like a hole in the bucket. Its time to get rid of it. All it is is a bribe machine for the CIA.


18 posted on 02/03/2025 5:53:35 AM PST by poinq (thics and customs and did not take an oath to the country. And did not follow the country's traditio)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Did they get permission from the CIA to shut this down?


19 posted on 02/03/2025 5:54:32 AM PST by dljordan
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To: larrytown
This week should be LEGENDARY in terms of shrieking media trying to head this off at the pass.

If the "Legacy Press" was honest, they should be shocked and outraged at the corruption going on at USAID.

20 posted on 02/03/2025 5:54:46 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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