Without USAID, Myanmar is struggling to recover from its massive earthquake

Myanmar 's 7.7 -magnitude earthquake killed at least 2,700 people and injured more than 3,900 injured.

USAID missions shuttered around the world after the Trump administration reportedly fired all but 15 positions of the agency's global staff.

There are no US officials currently on the ground, and a three -person USAID team is not expected to arrive until Wednesday .

Even before the earthquake, there were nearly 20 million people in the country in need of humanitarian assistance.

USAID worked on the earthquake response in Haiti for USAID .

The response to the devastating earthquake in Haiti in 2010 was about a billion dollars within six months .

In Myanmar , you have no central government, really you have a brutal civil war. It’s more difficult for a national level response. The United States government provides humanitarian assistance based upon need, not on politics.

The American staff have all received their termination letters, and the administration has notified Congress that it will be terminating all the local hires as well.

If USAID were still intact, we would have mobilized urban search and rescue teams from Los Angeles County and Fairfax County , Virginia ; they would be there with the sniffer dogs and the equipment necessary to pull people out of the rubble.