The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) will allow ousted employees 15 minutes to retrieve personal effects from the agency’s headquarters Thursday and Friday, the agency posted in a Tuesday notice.
Former employees will be “escorted to their workspace” and undergo “x-ray machine screening upon entry” to the Ronald Reagan Building headquarters before gathering their items, according to USAID’s website. Staff were also warned against bringing any “prohibited items” — including, but not limited to, billy clubs, brass knuckles, martial arts weapons, axes or hatchets, BB guns, bows and arrows, dynamite or chlorine for pools and spas — with them during their allotted retrieval window.
The announcement comes as President Donald Trump, and with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), appears to advance toward the final phases of…
