They order USAID workers in Washington not to go to the office in a last -minute unexpected mail

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The main office of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in Washington is unexpectedly closed this Monday and the workers received an email shortly after midnight in which they were told that they should not go, according to multiple familiar sources With the matter.

“By order of the agency’s management, the USAID headquarters in the Ronald Reagan building in Washington will remain closed to the agency’s staff on Monday, February 3, 2025. Agency staff normally assigned to work at the USAID headquarters It will work remotely tomorrow, with the exception of personnel with essential and maintenance functions of the building contacted individually by senior management, ”said the email, from which CNN obtained a copy.

The measure arrives after Elon Musk said that President Donald Trump has said that Usaid needs to be “closed”, after days of speculation about the future of the agency after his financing was frozen and dozens of his employees were put on leave .

Meanwhile, the USAID logos and the photos that show the humanitarian work that the agency performs throughout the world were removed from their offices last week, multiple sources familiar with the situation told CNN.

“All visual elements have been removed. They are like large -scale photos of our work in developing countries that are in our halls, in common kitchens, corridors, ”said a USAID employee. “The different offices that withdraw all the graphic material and the USAID signaling have also been ordered.”

Another USAID worker told CNN: “They have removed the photos of the walls and we are missing half of our colleagues because they have left and fired them and everyone has the feeling of walking around with a target on the back” .

A source that works in an annex building on the USAID told CNN that they have no news about whether they should go to work on Monday.

When asked if the leaders of his department seemed to have more information about the future of the agency’s work, the source replied: “All our superioes leaders have been fired.”

Around 60 high -ranking officials of USAID were placed in leave last week, accused of trying to avoid Trump’s decree to freeze foreign aid for 90 days. Many more subaltern officials and contractors within the agency have also been put in leave, they said multiple sources to CNN.