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Published on: 04/02/2025 | 00:00:00

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More than 600 additional employees reported being locked out of the agency’s computer systems overnight. Those still in the system received emails saying that the headquarters building will be closed to Agency personnel on Monday, Feb. 3. Trump told reporters on Monday that shutting down USAID "should have been done a long time ago" US media reported that a senior Treasury official had resigned over Musk’s team accessing sensitive information. The closure of USAID is part of a Trump administration crackdown that’s hitting across the federal government and its programmes. Trump, Musk and Republicans in Congress have made the US foreign assistance program a special target. Democrats pledge to try to block approval of Trump’s State Department nominations until the shutdown is reversed. Democrats are in the minority in the House and Senate after last November’s elections. Kennedy created USAID at the height of the United States’ Cold War struggle with the Soviet Union.

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