Hey guys, welcome back to Normally, the show with Normalist Takes for When the News

Gets Weird. I am Mary Catherine. Hey, I'm Carol Markowitz. Hi, Mary Catherine. How's it going?

It's all right. It's still freezing here. I know you don't have to deal with this, but I'm actually

going to escape to Florida next week, so I will see you

for a brief time in person. I'm very excited about that. And I hope the weather, you know,

it's like 71 today. I hope it warms up for you because this is clearly unacceptable.

Unacceptable. I'll be so cold when I get there. Oh my gosh. Yes. I think I'll survive.

I hope so. I really do.

Bring a sweater.

In any case, I'm wearing a sweater for those watching it.

So, you know, we talked about the 60 Minutes episode last show, and yet there was more to say about that episode that we didn't cover that I think we need to get into on this episode.

They had on two people who claimed to be USAID employees, and the claim to be, that's going to

feature into this, complaining about how Elon Musk is shutting down their work and doing it really haphazardly,

apparently, according to them.

Let's roll the short clip.

People are really scared.

I think that, you know, 12 days ago people knew where their next paycheck was coming from.

They knew how they were going to pay for their kids' daycare, their medical bills, and then all gone overnight.

All gone overnight for Christina Dry and Adam Dubard fired this month in the chaotic shutdown

of foreign aid, distributed by the U.S. agency for international development,

USAID. More than 8,000 USAID employees were sent home by the administration.

They're not looking for competency, they're not looking for if you're good at your job, they're looking for pure loyalty tests, and if you don't give it, you will be punished.

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