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🗓️ 4 February 2025
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0:00.0 | Guard, I talked to the security guard just in there. He said he has been given specific orders |
0:06.3 | to prevent employees of USAID from entering the building today. And I just find that to be absolutely |
0:12.7 | ridiculous. You know, this is no way to govern. This is no way to treat public servants. And this is |
0:18.4 | no way for us to conduct our foreign policy as a country. So I just |
0:22.3 | have to show up today, see it with my own eyes, you know, the chaos of this administration |
0:26.6 | and just their attacks upon public servants in our country. Does the White House know what US |
0:31.8 | AID does? I think that there's a lot of questions. Katie, I think that frankly the President |
0:36.9 | United States is not answered about his understanding of what this $40 billion operation |
0:42.3 | that effectively works with more than 100 different organizations, more than 60 different missions globally, |
0:50.3 | to work as a conduit for congressionally appropriated funds for humanitarian assistance and local development projects. |
0:59.1 | And what Donald Trump in the Oval Office just a short time ago acknowledged to the press corps was that, in fact, |
1:06.2 | he is okay with the way that Elon Musk has gone about effectively crippling the backbone of U.S. |
1:14.3 | humanitarian assistance or organization. |
1:17.2 | And not only that, but also Elon Musk's efforts within the Treasury Department to gain |
1:22.0 | access through employees of payment disbursement files, but then also when you're looking at Elon Musk and in that |
1:31.0 | space his conversation he had in after midnight last night, Katie, it is a suggestion that they are |
1:35.8 | willing to freeze billions of dollars in foreign assistance, but also potentially other payments. |
1:41.3 | And what we heard from the president was no suggestion that he has any |
1:46.5 | interest in putting a stop to the efforts of Elon Musk. We heard from some of those democratic |
1:51.5 | lawmakers on the literal front line of the government offices there at USAID headquarters, which was |
1:58.0 | shut down today. And staffers who have not been fired or furloughed, |
2:01.6 | were told not to come to that office. And what you heard from some of those Democratic |
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