About 10,000 USAID employees were told this week that they'll be placed on administrative leave effective Friday.
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00:00About 10,000 USAID employees were told this week that they'll be placed on administrative leave effective end of day Friday.
00:09Groups representing these foreign aid workers are suing the Trump administration to stop the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development,
00:18calling what's happening to the humanitarian agency a, quote, unlawful seizure.
00:22The lawsuit says the administration's stop work orders funding freeze and staff reductions are costing thousands of jobs,
00:29threatening U.S. national security interests and causing a humanitarian catastrophe.
00:34Secretary of State Marco Rubio, meanwhile, says the agency had no cooperation and, in fact, insubordination,
00:41and so it required them to work from the bottom up.