A senior official with the U.S. Agency for International Development in an email on Sunday warned that the Trump administration's dismantling of the agency will result in unnecessary deaths -- only to email his staff less than 30 minutes later to say that he had been placed on leave.

Enrich's memo further warned that a year-long halt to USAID’s life-saving aid would lead to between 71,000 and 166,000 additional malaria deaths, an almost 40% increase in global tuberculosis cases, and up to 28,000 new cases of emerging infectious diseases like Ebola.