Employees at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) are being placed on administrative leave with pay "until further notice," according to letters reviewed by The Hill.

Employees must be available by phone and email during business hours, according to the notice, which provides an email for them to contact "to end that."

The letters come after most USAID employees lost access to internal systems over the weekend as Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency put the agency through a "woodchipper."

One USAID employee said they felt "helpless" after........

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