ABC actually aired a USAID employee’s description of the scramble as DOGE rolled up to the office, and their hurried removal of woke iconography:
“DOGE was in the building. We started — we took down our pride flags, we took down- I took out any books I felt would be incriminating. No one was talking, We heard they started taking transcripts automatically of all of our Google meets.
We — they unplugged the news in the little kitchen galleys. It didn’t feel good. And then Saturday, all of the websites went down. And then I lost complete access to my computer.”