3 days ago · Foreign Affairs. How spending $153M to pay its bills put USAID in DOGE’s crosshairs Aides to the president and Elon Musk suspected USAID officials were trying to go around a funding freeze.

5 days ago · Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has gutted the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), taking a team of over 10,000 down to just under 300, according ...

3 days ago · Trump’s newly formed Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE — led by billionaire Elon Musk — swung its focus to USAID in late January. The agency was created in 1961 and charged...

5 days ago · The department’s acting deputy secretary, David Lebryk, retired after more than 30 years of service when Krause and DOGE requested access to sensitive data, the two people told The AP. Trump ordered a funding freeze at USAID his first day in office, saying, “the United States foreign aid industry” was “not aligned with American ...

Feb 3, 2025 · President Trump’s new DOGE task force is causing major shakeups within the federal government with the Elon Musk run agency having effectively shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development. ... USAID is in charge of administering U.S. humanitarian aid around the world. The agency employs around 10,000 people and has an annual budget ...

4 days ago · Then on Sunday came a flurry of posts wherein the world’s richest person, the Trump-appointed head of the new Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, described USAID, the foreign ...

Feb 2, 2025 · Officials with DOGE, the new group run by billionaire Elon Musk, tried to physically enter USAID’s offices and access materials there including classified information, CNN first reported Sunday...

Feb 2, 2025 · Elon Musk said President Donald Trump agreed the US Agency for International Development needs to be “shut down,” following days of speculation over the future of the agency after its funding was...

Feb 2, 2025 · The developments added to the ongoing turmoil inside USAID, where sources told ABC News that DOGE staffers have moved to take over offices, escalating tensions as more senior staff members are ...

Feb 2, 2025 · His comments come after the administration placed two top security chiefs at USAID on leave after they refused to turn over classified material in restricted areas to Musk’s government-inspection teams, a current and a former U.S. …