Trump to put most USAID employees on leave

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🗓️ 7 February 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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President Trump is set to put all but a few hundred USAID employees on leave, prompting lawsuits from unions that represent foreign service officers. Politico's Nahal Toosi joins us to discuss. And, produce importers in the border city of Nogales, Arizona, are feeling spooked by Trump's lingering threat of tariffs on goods from Mexico. Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd reports. Then, a discovery in southern Arizona could potentially be the oldest firearms ever found in the U.S. Research archeologist Deni Seymour, who dug up the canons, shares more about what she found.

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0:44.8	It's insane. I've never seen anything like this covering government.
0:47.8	As the Trump administration gets staffing at USAID,
0:51.2	does the independent agency have a future?
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