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🗓️ 5 February 2025
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| 0:31.0 | I called up NPR's Franco Ordonez because I had a question. |
| 0:39.6 | Does USAID, the U.S. Agency for International Development, still exist? |
| 0:46.5 | And you know what? |
| 0:47.5 | His tone will tell you everything. |
| 0:50.6 | I mean, I think in some former fashion, it does kind of exist. |
| 0:58.6 | Sounds like we don't know. |
| 1:00.3 | I think that's very, I think that's very reasonable way to put it. |
| 1:03.4 | I mean, there's so much that still has to shake out. |
| 1:07.9 | USAID gives money to humanitarian efforts around the world, hospitals in Gaza, soup kitchens |
| 1:14.4 | in Sudan. And over the past week, I've watched from afar as Elon Musk and Donald Trump |
| 1:20.4 | tried dismantling this agency, piece by piece. First, it was hit with a foreign aid funding freeze. Then that freeze was |
| 1:31.1 | partially lifted, but soon there were reports that one employee after another was getting put on |
| 1:37.5 | administrative leave. Over the weekend, there were reports that representatives from Musk's so-called |
| 1:43.2 | Department of Government |
| 1:44.7 | Efficiency, you know, Doge, had accessed headquarters. |
| 1:49.7 | And then the agency was summarily scrubbed from the internet. |
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