USAID has stood as a government agency for 63 years, but it will become a shell of itself in a matter of days. At midnight on Friday, according to an agency memo, all of its 10,000 employees worldwide—except for those “designated personnel responsible for mission-critical functions, core leadership, and specially designated programs”—will be placed on administrative leave. This is the biggest—and perhaps fatal—blow in the DOGE-directed blitz that eliminated the jobs of many USAID contractors last week, closed the agency’s offices in Washington, D.C., on Monday, and halted the work and programs of employees overseas. It’s unclear what will remain at 12:01 a.m. on Saturday. (A State Department aide declined to provide a list of surviving programs.)