USAID staff asked to resign

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Nearly 10,000 USAID staff have been asked to resign, and indirect contractors have been suspended, as Trump and Musk push for the shutdown of the aid organization, our correspondent Caroline Malone reports.  #USAID #Trump #Musk

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00:00We can now cross live to Washington to speak to our correspondent Caroline Malone.

00:06Caroline, thank you for joining me.

00:08USAID is the world's largest single donor.

00:12Who will be impacted first?

00:14And what does it mean for global aid?

00:17Absolutely. Well, directly, already a number of the 10,000 people

00:22that work for USAID from the United States and then work as contractors globally

00:26have clearly been impacted by this very sudden action

00:30in which access to their offices went down.

00:33They were told to work from home on Monday.

00:35A lot of them being sent emails suggesting that they don't have future jobs

00:39and they're being offered resignations.

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