Officials working with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency sought access to the Treasury Department payment system to stop money from flowing to the U.S.

DOGE’s efforts to stop USAID payments undermine assurances that the department gave to federal lawmakers in a Tuesday letter that it sought only to review the integrity of the payments and had “read-only access” to the system as part of an audit process.

House Republican allies of President Trump are looking for him to set his government efficiency sights on the Department of Education.

The Trump administration on Tuesday night announced it was placing most of the U.S. Agency for International Development's (USAID) worldwide staffers on leave. Why it matters: It's the latest blow the Trump administration has dealt to the world's largest humanitarian aid organization,

WASHINGTON − About 10,000 employees of the United States Agency for International Development, excluding essential personnel, have been notified that they will be placed on administrative leave at the end of Friday as President Donald Trump moves to dismantle the foreign aid agency.