U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) staffers said that they tracked over 600 workers who reported getting locked out of the USAID computer systems overnight, according to the Associated Press. People who remained in the system got emails stating that “at the direction of Agency leadership” the headquarters facility “will be closed to Agency personnel on Monday, Feb. 3.”
Elon Musk, who is spearheading the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) effort, had said during an X spaces conversation that President Donald Trump agreed that the USAID should be shut down.
Musk indicated that the shut-down process is underway.
He said that unlike an apple contaminated by a worm, the agency is “a bowl of worms.”
MUSK’S DOGE TAKES AIM AT ‘VIPER’S NEST’ FEDERAL AGENCY WITH GLOBAL FOOTPRINT
President-elect Donald Trump greets Elon Musk as he arrives to attend a viewing of the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket on Nov. 19, 2024, in Brownsville, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
“There is no apple,” he said. “It’s beyond repair.”
Musk noted that the more he has gotten to know Trump, the more he likes the president.
“Frankly, I love the guy. He’s great,” the business tycoon said of the commander in chief.
USAID WORKERS PUT ON LEAVE AS TRUMP OFFICIALS INVESTIGATE RESISTANCE TO AID PAUSE
President Donald Trump talks to reporters after signing an executive order, “Unleashing prosperity through deregulation,” in the Oval Office on Jan. 31, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Musk has been excoriating USAID in posts on X.
“USAID is a criminal organization. Time for it to die,” he tweeted.
“USAID was a viper’s nest of radical-left marxists who hate America,” he asserted.
RUBIO PAUSES FOREIGN AID FROM STATE DEPARTMENT AND USAID TO ENSURE IT PUTS ‘AMERICA FIRST’
The United States Agency for International Development logo is seen in Virginia on Feb. 21, 2023 (Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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“We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper. Could [have] gone to some great parties. Did that instead,” Musk noted.