Earlier Thursday, the Trump administration announced it was cutting 90% of USAID’s overseas contracts and $60 billion in U.S. assistance around the world. The move will terminate funding for critical polio, HIV, malaria and nutrition programs, among other things. Thousands of USAID employees were given 15 minutes to clear out their desks. Peers and supporters greeted fired workers as they left the building.

Amanda Nataro: “I worry about the people that have gone this many days without food, without medicine, without the humanitarian assistance that we promised them.”

USAID employee: “Talk to the average American. Do they want to see people dying because of assistance cut off? You know, there would have been a very clear and particular way to reform the foreign assistance sector in this country, to reform USAID. And frankly, a lot of people sort of wanted to see that.”