Deadline For Federal Workers, Reaction To Trump's Gaza Plan, Future Of US Foreign Aid

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🗓️ 6 February 2025

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Summary

Federal workers must decide today whether to accept an offer to resign. After calling for the US to take over Gaza, President Trump has also promised an announcement about the West Bank, and humanitarian programs around the world are being shut down as most USAID workers have been put on leave.

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0:00.0	Good morning to you.
0:01.7	You said good morning.
0:02.9	A. Martinez didn't say good morning.
0:05.1	He's too good for me.
0:07.7	Oh, morning.
0:08.4	No, no, I say hello.
0:09.6	Because you don't want to presume it is a good morning?
0:11.8	For you or me.
0:13.7	Do you say, Ola, if you're speaking in Spanish?
0:15.7	Ola, hello.
0:17.0	You don't say, Buenos Dias?
0:19.0	Um, Buenos Dias. I've had a turn on that one because it's like,
0:22.7	how dare you tell me to have a good day?
0:25.9	You don't want to presume to instruct other people to be happy?
0:30.7	Then I'm responsible if they don't have a good day.
0:32.8	Oh.
0:33.5	And I got to wait until the end of the day to hear if it was a good day.
0:37.2	No, I don't want that kind of pressure, Steve.
0:38.9	Okay.
0:39.4	Next time I see you, I'm just going to say, Dias.
0:42.0	Dea.
0:45.9	Federal workers face a deadline today to take an offer to resign.
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