Trump and Musk’s cost-cutting DOGE have hit USAID particularly hard as they look to shrink the size of the federal government, accusing its work of being wasteful and out of line with Trump’s agenda.

An unprecedented standoff unfolded Monday morning as USAID employees arrived at their Washington, D.C., headquarters—only to be denied entry. Despite a federal judge's ruling temporarily halting President Donald Trump's mass purge of the agency,