Trump agrees USAID should be ‘shut down’

Elon Musk said President Donald Trump agreed the US Agency for International Development needs to be “shut down,” CNN writes.

“With regards to the USAID stuff, I went over it with (the president) in detail and he agreed that we should shut it down,” Musk said.

To remind, the day before, two senior USAID officials refused to allow Elon Musk, who heads the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency, into the agency’s secret space; they have been placed on “administrative leave.”

Around 60 senior USAID staff were put on leave last week on accusations of attempting to circumvent Trump’s executive order to freeze foreign aid for 90 days.

Staffers of the U.S. Agency for International Development were instructed to stay out of the agency’s Washington headquarters on Monday, according to a notice distributed to them, the Associated Press writes.

USAID staffers said they tracked 600 employees who reported being locked out of the agency’s computer systems overnight. Those still in the system received emails in the agency system saying that “at the direction of Agency leadership” the headquarters building “will be closed to Agency personnel on Monday, Feb. 3.”