Good morning.
It's Tuesday, February 4th.
I'm Shemitah Basu.
This is Apple News today.
On today's show, why Trump keeps referencing the original tariff man President
how worried should we be about bird flu?
And a critical meeting between Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu.
But first, it's been a dramatic few days at USAID, the U.S. agency for International Development.
After Elon Musk's team entered USAID's headquarters over the weekend
and announced his intentions to shut down the agency,
staffers were told in a late night email not to report into work on Monday.
Then yesterday, workers showed up to find the lobby entrance was blocked by yellow tape.
When some Democrats tried to enter the agency's headquarters, they were initially blocked by federal officers.
Congressman Jamie Raskin was one of them.
Here's what he told npr.
Well, I represent thousands of federal workers, and a lot of them work in foreign aid and at usaid.
And I wanted to go and see what's happening.
They told me they were locked out of their workplace.
And sure enough, we got inside and they said it had been closed.
And all of the workers there were told to be teleworking, which is also,