Two former employees of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), who were terminated last month, told CNN the 83 percent spending cuts announced by Secretary of State Marco on Monday would "put lives in jeopardy."

“I think that when we’re talking about life-saving aid programs, saying we’re going to cut 83 percent of USAID’s program, we are going to put lives in jeopardy," Linden Yee, a former employee of the agency, told CNN on Monday.

"There’s no way that is not going to harm millions of people’s lives,” she added.

Rubio announced the scale of the expected cuts to USAID earlier in the morning.........

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