State Department moving to evacuate USAID staff worldwide: Sources
The State Department has begun working to assist in evacuating all USAID staff who are on foreign assignments worldwide, sources familiar with the effort told ABC News.
The Department is aiming to recall all USAID employees, including family members, to the United States by Saturday, according to multiple sources.
On Tuesday, new deputy administrator for USIAD Pete Marocco told State Department officials that if the evacuation wasn't completed, the military would step in, a source familiar with the conversion told ABC News.
A federal worker described the move to ABC News as a sudden recall of thousands of foreign service officers, forcing families to uproot with just days' notice—spouses quitting jobs, kids leaving schools, and even pets being relocated.
"To uproot them and call them back to Washington like criminals while dealing with families and logistics is cruel. These people have kids in school," a former USAID employee told ABC News.
-ABC News' Will Steakin and Lucien Bruggeman