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USAID workers given 15 minutes to clear out their desks as thousands of employees pulled off the job — here's what's at stake as the agency is dismantled

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The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is in the process of being stripped down.

Thousands of workers have been put on leave and overseas workers recalled.

The move comes as the Trump administration laid out its plans to cut 90% of USAID ’s foreign aid contracts.

USAID was created in 1961 , during the Cold War , as the international humanitarian and development arm of the government.

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