Terminated USAID employees applauded as they vacate offices in wake of Trump's cuts to foreign aid

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00:00You know, it's a, it's a, you know, it's a legacy

00:29that, you know, American taxpayers should be proud of.

00:32Let's not forget that historically up until now, it's in less than 1% of the budget.

00:36And you know, come on, talk to the average American.

00:40Do they want to see people dying because of assistance cutoff?

00:45You know, there would have been a very clear and particular way to reform the foreign assistance

00:52sector in this country, to reform USAID.

00:55And frankly, a lot of people sort of wanted to see that.

00:58This could have been done in a much more genuine and relevant way, and it, you know,

01:03it really wasn't.

01:04Yeah, exactly, yeah, we'll do USAID.

01:17We're cutting off millions of children from food to like, to save ourselves like pennies

01:26on the dollar.

01:27You know, again, in less than 1% of our budget, like, that's not a saving.

01:32And this, this important, this work is literally life and death for some people, so it's not

01:37a savings.

01:38Oh, there's so many emotions.

01:47I already cried this morning when I arrived, you know, someone said, you know, thanks for

01:53being here.

01:54And I just burst into tears.

01:55But I, I want to be here because I, you know, I came early to support my colleagues.

02:00I think community is the most important thing, and that's, that's what we work for around

02:03the world.

02:04We start at home.

02:05I mean, I think people don't understand the thing, we're sending money away.

02:09But really, we're, we're, we're building community at home.

02:12We're supporting farmers here, bringing, and bringing that, you know, sense of community

02:17and support to the world, to be good neighbors.

02:20Yeah.

02:21I worry about the people that have gone this many days without food, without medicine,

02:32without the humanitarian assistance that we promised them.

02:37My hope is that the work isn't abandoned completely.

02:48I think the misconception is that bureaucracy is bad.

02:53I worked on developing a lot of projects, and you don't do those overnight.

02:58Those have lots of checks in place to define what you're doing and to make sure what you're

03:04doing is meeting priorities of the agency.

03:06You just don't create something because you think it sounds good.

03:09It really has to be grounded in priorities for USAID and for America.

03:15And I think the misconception is that we weren't doing that.

03:18And that's not true.

03:19We were.

03:31It's a sad day when the American, when the American government decides that American

03:35values are no longer important, that it's no longer of value to export what we believe

03:41in to the rest of the world.

03:49USAID is one of the most accountable and transparent parts of the United States government.

03:55The Office of the Inspector General has done numerous audits and has found no fraud, no

04:01waste.

04:02What Elon Musk thinks is that he has found things he disagrees with.

04:07And that's fine.

04:08People in this building have spent 65 years responding to what the president wants, have

04:15spent 65 years responding to the needs that the president says.

04:38We're here, we thank you, this is not happening in the dark.

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