Over 600 employees were denied access to the USAID system overnight on Monday, and federal workers were instructed to stay out of the USAID Washington headquarters,

Elon Musk, the billionaire adviser to President Trump, is targeting the U.S. Agency for International Development as part of his directive to slash federal spending.USAID provides financial aid to countries around the world.

People are definitely going to die even if we turned everything back on today, which isn’t going to happen.” The only reason that USAID was able to issue an exemption for the $78 million earmarked for Gaza is because the American government is obligated under the terms of the cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas negotiated in part by Trump envoy Steve Witkoff.