The US Agency for the Director of International Development and its Deputy was placed on the administrative leave on Saturday after trying to prevent employees from the government’s efficiency department to access secure USAID systems, five sources familiar with events.
USAID Doge Team Systems attempted to access the staff and safety systems involved, including classified systems outside the level of security at least some doge employees. The systems also included security information for the agency employees, two sources said.
“No classified material was accident without proper security approval”, “Katie Miller, who worked in the first administration of the President Donald Trump and since then he joined Doge, She said Sunday X.
When USAID security director JOHN Voorhees and his deputy, Brian McGill, refused to allow them, the employees of Doge threatened to call American marches, stated us two. Dose employees were eventually able to get access to safe systems, according to three sources, but it was not clear that information could have obtained.
Elon Musk, Trump-Authorized Technical Billionaire and Head of Doge, published Sunday on x Calling for USAID “to die” and accusing an independent agency, without the offer of evidence, to be a “criminal organization”.
Trump said on the Tarm on the Joint Base Andrews on Sunday that musk “does good job” and criticized USAID as “guiding a crowd of radical lunatic”.
“It runs him a pile of radical dolls, and we take them out, USAID runs on Radical Lunatics and take them out, and then we’ll make a decision,” he said.
But Democrats claimed that the Doge attempt was to access USAID records dangerous.
“Reports that individuals without appropriate approval can access the classified USAID spaces, as well as personal data of American citizens are incredibly serious and unseen,” Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, Dn.h., a member of the Ranking Committee on Foreign Relationships, written by NBC news. “We are looking for immediate answers about all implications on our national security and bringing a group of biparted senators together on this as soon as the Senate returns tomorrow.”
Democratic members of the Board of the Senate on External Relations alleged in Sunday letter For State Secretary Marco Rubio that “security guards were present in the facility threatened when asked questions” about the agreeable workers seeking access.
Trump Administration officers actively discuss USAID’s setup, according to more than a dozen current and former officials and sources of the discussions, NBC News reported, and the move that democratic representatives and legal experts Adopted Congress to establish an agency.
The State Department, USAID and Musk did not immediately respond to comment requests.
Saturday, the Agency website, USAID.Gov, became dark and remained outdoors on Sunday night, but a Website for USAID Status on the home page.Gov is active.
More than 1,000 USAID employees, including more than 300 people in Global Health and 600 in the Humanitarian Help Bureau, have already been released or are charged in the vicinity, and the Trump administration was implemented more ago a week ago.
In the latest staff, most of the 125-Personal Bureau for Legislative and Public Affairs, according to three sources that are directly acquainted with the proceedings, and several members of the Agency are blocked by internal communication systems with staff this week, said is another source.
“Nobody feels sure he’s not going near Ronald Reagan building,” where USAID is based, the USAID officer said NBC News. “We just had Elon Musk called us a criminal organization. Our head of security was accompanied. We know that we are overseeing us.”
Tara Princeviv and Lora Colodny, CNBC contributed.
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