Musk says that the administration is about to close the United States Agency for International Development

Washington – The American Agency for International Development on the threshold of its closure, according to the Trump administration Billionaire advisor And x, Spacex and Tesla CEO Elon MuskWhich was wrestling to control the agency in recent days.

Early on Monday, Musk held a live session on X spaces, previously known as Twitter Spaces, and said he spoke in detail about the United States Agency for International Development with President Trump. “We must close it,” Musk said.

Musk said: “It has become clear that it is not an apple with a worm.” “What we have is just a worm. You have to get rid of the whole thing. It is not more than repair … We are closing it.”

Instructions were sent to the United States Development Agency to stay outside the agency’s headquarters in Washington on Monday, according to a notice distributed to them. The employees said that they followed 600 employees who reported that they were closed from the proxy computer systems overnight. Those who are still in the system have received emails saying that it is “in the direction of the agency’s leadership” the headquarters building will be closed “in front of the agency’s employees on Monday, February 3.”

The American Agency for International Development oversees humanitarian, development and security programs in about 120 countries around the world. A European diplomat told CBS News that they are looking at the transition to dismantle it as an “unusual gift for Russia/China.”

Musk’s comments came in the X Spaces session after the administration put two senior heads of security heads at the United States Agency for International Development on vacation. The Security Director of Security John Feraiz and the Deputy Director of Security Brian McGil were placed on Saturday night vacation, Two sources of CBS News have been confirmed.

A former and former US official said Associated Press On Sunday, this step came after the US Agency officials for International Development refused to allow workers from the Musk administration Ministry of Governmental efficiency (Doge) To reach the classified materials in the restricted areas.

The Musk crew lacked a high enough security clearance to access this information, so two officials of the American International Development Agency themselves believed that they are lawful in order to deprive the arrival.

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Kate Miller, who works for a advisory council, did not respond to requests for comment but did Re -posting AP article on X With the comment, “it has not been accessed to materials classified without appropriate security permits.”

The current and former American officials had an awareness of the accident and spoke on the condition that his identity was not disclosed because they were not authorized to share information.

On Sunday, Musk responded to the X Publishing about the news by saying: “The US International Development Agency is a criminal organization. It is time to die.” Follow with additional functions on X about the auxiliary agency.

This comes a day after Doge carried out a similar operation in the Treasury, where she got sensitive information, including Medicare and Medicare customers. The Washington Post reported that a senior treasury official resigned from the Musk team to access sensitive information.

Musk Dog in cooperation with the Trump administration formed the declared goal of finding ways to launch federal workers, cut programs and cut federal regulations.

The American Agency for International Development, whose website disappeared on Saturday without explanation, was one of the federal agencies most targeted by the Trump administration in an escalation campaign on the federal government and many of its programs.

“It has been operated by a group of radical crazy people. We are taking them out,” Mr. Trump noticed to reporters of the US Agency for International Development on Sunday evening.

The Trump administration and Foreign Minister Marco Rubio imposed an unprecedented freeze for foreign assistance that closed many humanitarian, development and security programs for the US Development Agency – which sparked thousands of workers’ demobilization operations by relief organizations – the leadership of the agency and employees in Washington.

The United States is largely the largest humanitarian aid in the world, as the United States Agency for International Development runs billions of dollars in humanitarian assistance, development and security in more than 100 countries.

Peter Maruko, a politician who returns from Mr. Trump’s first state, was a pioneer in enforcement of the closure. The United States Agency for International Development says they believe that the Agency with strangers who have visitors ask questions to the employees inside the Washington headquarters are members of the Doug team in Musk.

Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren said on Sunday that the president was allowing to catch the personal information of people and closing government financing.

“We must do everything in our power to retreat and protect people from harm,” said Senator Massachusetts.

Aaron Navarro,

Sarah Cook Margaret Brennan contributed to this report.