Employees fired from USAID will be retrieving personal belongings from their offices inside the now-closed Ronald Reagan Building during designated time slots on Thursday and Friday. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)
Before leaving the building with their items, USAID said staff "will be required to acknowledge receipt of their personal belongings" in order to keep agencies from being liable for items left behind. They will also be required to confirm that they do not have any physical or electronic government records with them.
USAID said Thursday and Friday are the only two days when retrieval will be allowed and employees must do it within the time slot that coordinates with their bureau. If staff members cannot make the time slot, only a designated alternate staff member can retrieve belongings as visitors, children and staff without proper credentials will not be allowed.
General Services Administration will pack up personal items that were not retrieved and will send them to a warehouse to be collected at a later date, the instructions said.
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There are 14 time slots for employees of 25 bureaus between the two retrieval days.
Employees will also return all USAID-issued government-furnished equipment during their time in the building.
The agency, once run by thousands of employees, has been cut down to fewer than 300 staffers, who are responsible for mission-critical functions, core leadership or specially designated programs. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
For instance, Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, the Senate DOGE Caucus Chairwoman, recently published a list that included $20 million to produce a Sesame Street show in Iraq.
Several more examples have been uncovered, such as more than $900,000 to a "Gaza-based terror charity" called Bayader Association for Environment and Development and a $1.5 million program slated to "advance diversity, equity, and inclusion in Serbia's workplaces and business communities."
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