Elon Musk explained that the United States Agency for International Development (USAI) should “die”, since it was reported that two top security officers from the auxiliary agency were put on vacation because he had refused to access his representatives to classified materials.
Musk, who was appointed by US President Donald Trump to lead the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) to headquarters in Washington, DC.
“Time to die,” wrote Musk on his social media platform X.
The Security Director of USAID, John Voorhees, and his deputy Brian McGill were put on vacation, after they refused to enter Doge in the lack of security checks, several US media reported, citing unnamed civil servants.
The representatives of Doge, which was created by Trump in an executive regulation, but is not a government department, were ultimately able to access areas with classified information after the confrontation, which was first reported by CNN.
Steven Cheung, the communication director of the White House, denied that Doge’s staff tried to gain access to safe areas, and described a PBS report on the incident “fake messages” and “not even from a distance”.
“So the media are unset and not trustworthy,” Cheung said in a contribution to X.
However, Katie Miller, who serves in Doge, seemed to recognize the attempted entry of the Task Force and to write via X that “no classified material was accessed without proper safety checks”.
The incident has contributed to considering that Trump, who freezes almost all foreign help, plans to radically contain or even completely reduce the USA.
The USAI website became offline on Saturday, while a Barebones page appeared for the agency on the website of the Foreign Ministry and promotes speculations that would be subsumed in the latter.
“President Trump spent two weeks to bother and dismiss USAI employees, and now his team is trying to delete the agency as a whole,” said Chris Coons, a democratic senator of the state of Delaware, on X.
“These are patriotic Americans who promote our leadership around the world. You make us safer. Trump makes us less sure. “
Jeremy Konynddyk, who worked as the director of the USAID office of the US disaster aid between 2013 and 2017, said that the elimination of USAIS without congress act was illegal and a violation of the separation of powers in the US constitution.
“If this gambit is successful – if Trump (or Elon) can only override congress laws and financing mandates and congresses – it is a very dark sign … and it will not stop in the USA,” said Kononyk about X.
The democratic legislature also dissolved the extent of the influence of Musk on the government, although he did not hold a elected office.
Musk’s conflict with the USA is after the New York Times, and the Associated Press news agency reported over the weekend that masturbation has been given access to the federal payment system that contains sensitive personal information about millions of Americans.
“This is a five -alarm fire. Donald Trump elected people as presidential as Elon Musk, ”said the New York congress member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez about X.
“It is a serious threat to national security. This should not be a partisan problem. “
On Sunday, Trump said reporters that his government would bring out the “radical insane” from the USA before making a decision about her future.
Trump later equipped the help to South Africa and committed to cut off “all future funds” in response to land commands and the poor treatment of “certain classes of people”.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa signed a controversial law last week, which in certain cases enables the state of the white farmers without compensation.
According to the US government’s data, the United States provided almost 440 million US dollars to South Africa to support South Africa in 2023.
“The United States will not stand for it, we will act,” Trump wrote on his social platform of truth and added that the financing freezen remains a “complete investigation of this situation”.
The United States is by far the world’s largest source for foreign support, although less than 1 percent of its expenses are supported and some other countries are more than a share of their budgets.
In 2023, Washington issued $ 72 billion in almost 180 countries in almost 180 countries in almost 180 countries, with more than half of them paid by the USA.
