NBC News
February 7, 2025 at 09:27 PM
Letter by letter, crews scrape off the signage displaying “U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT” off of the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C.
The agency is at the center of a political firestorm as thousands of USAID employees learned this week that they would be placed on administrative leave starting at 11:59 p.m. Friday amid slashes to the federal workforce.
USAID is expected to be reduced to about 290 workers from the more than 5,000 foreign service officers, civil servants and personal service contractors it currently employs worldwide.
Under the expected plan, only 12 people would be dedicated to the entire continent of Africa and eight people for all of Asia.
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