Trump is reportedly trying to close the agency and move it under the State Department, which Democrats warn would be illegal.

Musk, CEO of X (formerly Twitter), has been on a posting spree, using his platform to justify and denigrate his takeover of USAID. He’s called the agency " evil ," a " criminal organization ," and a "viper’s nest of radical-left Marxists who hate America."

The USAID officials had a legal obligation to bar staffers without proper security clearance from seeing classified documents, according to reports