As USAID clears out, official directs employees to use shredders, burn bags on documents

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : A senior official with the embattled United States Agency for International Development sent an email Tuesday to remaining bureau leaders with guidance on "clearing our classified safes and personnel documents" at the aid agency's Washington, D.C., headquarters, according to a copy of the email obtained by ABC News.
51% : It was not immediately clear why the message was sent, but some current and former USAID officials speculated that it has to do with clearing out office space that is expected to be taken over by Customs and Border Patrol, as Elon Musk, the head of the Department of Government Efficiency, announced on X last month.
31% : As news reports about the directive emerged Tuesday, the American Federation of Government Employees, a union that is suing the Trump administration over its cuts to the federal workforce, asked a federal judge to intervene and prevent the agency from "destroying documents with potential pertinence to this litigation.

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