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USAID workers pay mournful final visit to agency to clear out their belongings under federal guard
The Associated Press ^ | February 27, 2025 | BY GARY FIELDS (D-AP)

Posted on 02/27/2025 9:15:57 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Agency for International Development workers who have been fired or placed on leave as part of the Trump administration’s dismantling of the agency began paying mournful final visits to their abruptly closed Washington headquarters on Thursday, under the administration’s 15-minute windows to clear out their offices while escorted by federal officers.

Some staffers wept as they carried out grocery bags and suitcases with what was left from their life’s work. Supporters clapped and cheered outside or drove by tapping their car horns to bolster their spirits.

A woman coming back out of the building loaded down with backpacks and bags burst into tears at the cheers that greeted her. Many of a small but growing crowd of supporters outside enveloped her in hugs.

Trump and Musk have moved swiftly to shutter the foreign aid agency, calling its programs out of line with the Republican president’s agenda and asserting without evidence that its work is wasteful. In addition to its scope, their effort is extraordinary because it has not involved Congress, which authorized the agency and has provided its funding.

Virginia Democratic Rep. Gerald Connolly said in a statement that the attack on USAID employees was “unwarranted and unprecedented.” Connolly, whose district includes a sizable federal workforce, called the aid agency workers part of the “world’s premier development and foreign assistance agency” who save “millions of lives every year.”

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abuse; ap; associateddepressed; fraud; garyfields; usaid; waste
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1 posted on 02/27/2025 9:15:57 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

A scene familiar to many in the private sector. They just never get any media coverage or sympathy.


2 posted on 02/27/2025 9:17:37 AM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Rest in pieces.


3 posted on 02/27/2025 9:17:50 AM PST by john drake (Lucius Accius-Roman,170 BC - "oderint dum metuant" translated "Let them hate so long as they fear")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Code....baby....code!!


4 posted on 02/27/2025 9:19:05 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This is going to save U.S. taxpayers billions.


5 posted on 02/27/2025 9:19:38 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Schmucky Schumer says that Government "hard workers" are working anonymously.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Just watched a video of one fired woman who cried, “I think it is so cruel people are getting fired for poor performance. We have never had an issue with it before.”

Another was crying that it was so terrifying and they couldn’t say what they were doing because they were so busy in meetings trying to find out what they were doing.”

Really? Welcome to the real world.


6 posted on 02/27/2025 9:19:46 AM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It is really sad to see such an important agency and it’s best and brightest, kicked to the curb for money laundering and not be prosecuted.


7 posted on 02/27/2025 9:20:20 AM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Leftists weeping is what victory looks like.


8 posted on 02/27/2025 9:20:59 AM PST by cgbg (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

How tragic!


9 posted on 02/27/2025 9:21:23 AM PST by Kazan
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Connolly, whose district includes a sizable federal workforce,

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With less federal workers in NOVA, maybe the state will have a shot at getting rid of people like Connelly. NOVA & some of Eastern VA (Bobby Scott’s district) nullify the rest of the state, which is red.


10 posted on 02/27/2025 9:22:09 AM PST by Qiviut (Come! Live in the light! Shine with the joy and the love of the Lord!)
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11 posted on 02/27/2025 9:22:55 AM PST by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: Sacajaweau
Code....baby....code!!

Or work in the fields now that illegal immigrants are being shipped back. Or work the oil derricks and coal mines.

12 posted on 02/27/2025 9:22:57 AM PST by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Without Evidence “

Liars.

There is absolutely TONS of evidence that the government is wasting money on the USAID.


13 posted on 02/27/2025 9:23:15 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (No American money or lives for Europe’s censorious, socialist, anti-democratic islamophiles!!!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They’ll miss their government overthrow , world reset , fake climate change ,world domination job ,LOL


14 posted on 02/27/2025 9:23:19 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: Sacajaweau

Those that can’t figure out how to code can always go to Kalifornia to pick crops.


15 posted on 02/27/2025 9:25:09 AM PST by redfreedom (Happiness is shopping at Walmart and not hearing Spanish once!)
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To: hinckley buzzard

> A scene familiar to many in the private sector. <

Right. A good example is the many thousands Biden put out of work when he closed the Keystone pipeline.

Betcha a dollar that the AP did not sympathize very much with those folks.


16 posted on 02/27/2025 9:25:31 AM PST by Leaning Right (It’s morning in America. Again.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

You probably think financing LGBT seminars in Sri Lanka and a variety of African counties is waste.

Agitation and Propaganda thinks it is wonderful—making the world safe for perverts.


17 posted on 02/27/2025 9:25:47 AM PST by cgbg (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise.)
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To: Sacajaweau

Roustabout on a drilling rig. Oil field is ramping up.


18 posted on 02/27/2025 9:26:04 AM PST by Eli Kopter (Gentle elves set light to lead the Faroes on the starry way from age to age - U. of Faroe Islands)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The USAID folks should be grateful that they were not led out in handcuffs and leg irons.


19 posted on 02/27/2025 9:26:51 AM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If USAID had stayed on mission and not diverted money to promote perversity, abortions, and other left-wing causes then I doubt the agency would have been such a target.


20 posted on 02/27/2025 9:27:19 AM PST by Tai_Chung
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