Trump ally Peter Marocco behind evisceration of USAid: ‘He’s a destroyer’

The Trump administration sent two top security chiefs at the US Agency for International Development (USAID) on leave after they refused to let inspection teams from the Department of Government Efficiency, led by Elon Musk, to access “classified materials” in restricted areas, news agency The Associated Press reported on Sunday.

It has been a turbulent weekend for USAID, as talks about potentially folding the agency into the State Department, first reported by POLITICO, have increasingly looked like they’re turning into a concrete plan to do so.

The USAID has been a target of the new Trump administration, as shortly after taking office, President Donald Trump signed the Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid executive order, which freezes foreign aid as part of a reassessment of U.S. financial commitments abroad in line with his administration's "America First" stance.

Musk’s inspection teams were eventually able to gain access to the classified documents on Saturday.