Washington (AP) – The Trump administration has placed two best security chiefs at American agency for international development on leave After refusing to put classified documents in limited areas to the teams of the Elon Musk inspection government, a current American official and a former American official at the Associated Press.
Members of Musk Government DepartmentKnown as DOGE, finally had access to the classified information from the aid agency, which includes intelligence reports on Saturday, said the former official.
Musk’s Doge’s Doge crew lacked sufficient security authorization to access this information, so the two USAID security officials – John Voorhees and the deputy Brian McGill – judged themselves legally forced to refuse the ‘access.
Current and former US officials were aware of the incident and spoke under the guise of anonymity because they were not allowed to share the information.
Musk responded to a post X on the news on Sunday by saying: “USAID is a criminal organization. It’s time to die. He followed with several additional messages on X on the help agency.
Kate Miller, who sits on a DOGE advisory council, said in a separate position that no classified equipment was accessible “without appropriate security authorization”.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comments.
It comes a day after Doge made a Operation similar to the Treasury DepartmentHave access to sensitive information, including social payment and payment systems for Medicare customers. The Washington Post reported that a senior treasure official had resigned from the Musk team accessing sensitive information.
Musk trained DOGE in cooperation with the TRUMP administration with the aim of finding means of fire federal workersCut programs and reduce federal regulations.
USAID, whose website has disappeared on Saturday without explanation, was One of the most targeted federal agencies by the Trump administration in an escalation Repression against the federal government And many of its programs.
The Trump administration and the Secretary of State Marco Rubio imposed a freeze on foreign aid This has closed a large part of the humanitarian, development and security programs of USAID worldwide – forcing thousands of layoffs by help organizations – and ordered content and holidays that have Bid on the agency management and staff in Washington.
The United States is by far the world’s largest donor of humanitarian aid, with USAID, administering billions of dollars in humanitarian, development and security in more than 100 countries.
Peter Marocco, a man named the return policy of Trump’s first mandate, was a leader in the application of the closure. USAID staff members say they believe that agency foreigners with visitors’ badges asked employees inside Washington’s headquarters are members of the Musk DOGE team.
Democrat Senator Elizabeth Warren said in an article on Sunday that Trump allowed Musk to access people’s personal information and close the government.
“We have to do everything in our power to repel and protect people from damage,” said the Senator of Massachusetts, without giving details.
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The writer Associated Press Matthew Lee in Panama City contributed to this report.
___ This story has been updated to correct the family name of one of the USAID security officials. He is John Voorhees, not John Vorhees.