Former employees of USAID, who have lost their jobs or been put on leave as part of the agency's shutdown, will on Thursday and Friday have 15 minutes to clear out their former workplaces, according to a notice on the authority's website.
The notice specifies when different groups should come to their former jobs to be security-checked and escorted to their places. They are urged not to bring weapons of various types, including firearms, axes, and hand grenades.
90 percent laid off
Over 90 percent of all contracts at the aid agency USAID will be terminated. This concerns 5,800 of the 6,200 long-term contracts. Another 4,100 of 9,100 grants from the Foreign Ministry are being terminated.
The value of the contracts is estimated to be around 640 billion kronor.
The Foreign Ministry states that Foreign Minister Marco Rubio has reviewed the terminations.
The US Supreme Court is simultaneously, for the time being, putting off a decision from a judge who has demanded that the government pay out aid for contracts entered into before President Donald Trump's inauguration on January 20.
The judge had, after a lawsuit from aid organizations, set a deadline for the payments to midnight local time.
The Supreme Court is blocking the judge's ruling until it has had a chance to review the matter.
Half a million at risk of death
It was at the beginning of February that the news came that USAID would be shut down and aid frozen. Since then, thousands of aid and development programs around the world have been terminated.
USAID has had offices in around 60 countries and operations in around 120 countries and is considered the world's largest single donor of aid.
The non-governmental organization Desmond Tutu Health Foundation, which works with HIV and AIDS patients, estimates that the funding stop can lead to more than 500,000 deaths over ten years.
Over half a million unnecessary deaths will occur due to the loss of funding, and up to half a million new infections, said the organization's Linda-Gail Bekker Bekker.
Trump has said that USAID is a bunch of radical crazies, and Musk had written on X that the aid organization is "a criminal organization".
