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🗓️ 5 February 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Are you a smart booker or a silly booker? |
| 0:07.4 | Smart bookers get access to a three airport lounge by booking a five-star holiday with On the Beach. |
| 0:13.8 | Silly bookers? Well, enjoy those cues at the bar. Stop booking around and visit Onthebeach.com. |
| 0:20.9 | Conditions apply. Seven night minimum stay outbound only from selected airports for a stop booking around and visit on the beach.com.ukor. |
| 0:22.2 | Conditions apply. |
| 0:25.6 | Seven night minimum stay outbound only from selected airports for up to six people, |
| 0:26.4 | Atoll protected. |
| 0:29.7 | On the beach. |
| 0:39.4 | I called up NPR's Franco Ordonez because I had a question. |
| 0:46.3 | Does USAID, the U.S. Agency for International Development, still exist? |
| 0:50.1 | And you know what? His tone will tell you everything. |
| 0:55.9 | I mean, I think in some former fashion, it does kind of exist. |
| 1:00.6 | Sounds like we don't know. |
| 1:03.8 | I think that's very, I think that's very reasonable way to put it. |
| 1:07.0 | I mean, there's so much that still has to shake out. |
| 1:14.9 | USAID gives money to humanitarian efforts around the world, hospitals in Gaza, soup kitchens in Sudan. And over the past week, I've watched from afar as Elon Musk and Donald Trump |
| 1:20.9 | tried dismantling this agency, piece by piece. First, it was hit with a foreign aid funding freeze. |
| 1:30.6 | Then that freeze was partially lifted, but soon there were reports that one employee |
| 1:35.6 | after another was getting put on administrative leave. |
| 1:39.7 | Over the weekend, there were reports that representatives from Musk's so-called Department of Government |
| 1:45.2 | Efficiency, you know, Doge, had accessed headquarters. And then the agency was summarily scrubbed |
| 1:53.6 | from the internet. You've been in touch, I'm sure, with people who are USAID employees, at least for now, are they going into the office? |
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