Washington – The US International Development Agency is at the height of closing, according to Trump’s administration billionaire counselor and X, Spacex and Tesla CEO Elon muskwhich has been struggling to control the agency in recent days.
Early on Monday, Musk held a live session on X Spaces, previously known as Twitter Spaces, and said he spoke in detail about the USAID -us President Trump. “He agreed that we should turn off it,” Musk said.
“It became obvious that it wasn’t an apple with a worm,” Musk said. “What we have is just a ball of worm. You have to basically get rid of the whole thing. It’s out of repair. … We exclude it.”
The USAID staff was instructed to stay outside the Washington agency’s headquarters on Monday, according to the notification that is allocated to them. The staff said they were following 600 employees who reported that they were locked from computer systems overnight. Those who are still in the system have received E -Kost, saying that “in the direction of the leadership of the agency” will be closed to agency staff on Monday, February 3rd. ”
Men’s comments at the X Spaces session followed after the administration put two main heads of security on the USAIDs on leave. The Director of USAID for Security John Vorhees and Deputy Security Director Brian McGill have been on leave on Saturday night, Two sources have been confirmed by CBS News.
Said the current and former US official Associated Press On Sunday, the move followed after two USAID officials refused to allow staff from Mošus runner Government Efficiency Department (Doge) for access to classified material in limited areas.
The Dogea Musk crew lacked enough high security approval to approach this information, so that two USAID officials believed that they were legally obliged to refuse access, AP reported.
Dogea staff eventually approached the classified information from the assistance agencies, which include intelligence reports, former AP official told AP.
Kate Miller, which serves on the advisory committee for Doge, did not respond to the commentary requests, but did Re -post article AP on x With a comment, “no classified material has accessed without appropriate security approval.”
Current and former US officials had knowledge of the incident and spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to share information.
On Sunday, Musk responded to the X post about the news, saying, “USAID is a criminal organization. It’s time to die.” Following additional posts at the X O Agency for help.
This comes the day after Doge performed a similar operation at the Ministry of Finance, receiving access to sensitive information, including the payment systems of customer for social security and Medicare. The Washington Post reported that the senior treasurer resigned because of the men’s team that had accessed sensitive information.
Musk formed Doge in cooperation with Trump’s administration with the fact of finding ways to release federal workers, cutting programs and reduction of federal regulations.
The USAID, whose website disappeared on Saturday without explanation, was one of the federal agencies that Trump’s administration was most aiming for in the escalation of the Federal Government and many of its programs.
“He was led by a bunch of radical lunters. We pull them out,” Mr. Trump remarked to the USAID reporters on Sunday night.
Trump’s administration and Secretary of State Marco Rubio imposed unprecedented freezing in foreign assistance that has extinguished much of the US humanitarian, development and security programs around the world – forcing thousands of release by help organizations – and ordered that he also extinguished the leaves which threw out the leadership and staff of the Washington agency.
The US is by far the world’s largest humanitarian aid donor, with USAid managing billions of dollars of humanitarian, developmental and security assistance in more than 100 countries.
Peter Marocco, politically appointed politically appointed from Mr. Trump’s first term, was a leader in the exclusion. The USAID staff say they believe that the outsiders are visitors to visitors who ask employees at the Washington headquarters, members of Musk’s Doge team.
Democratic Senica Elizabeth Warren stated in a post on Sunday that the president had released Musk to approach people’s personal information and close the financing of the Government.
“We have to do everything in our power to withdraw and protect people from harm,” said Senator Massachusetts, without giving details.
