White House Unleashes 'An Earthquake Against USAID'

EARTHQUAKE IN USAID UNLEASHED BY MUSK. “CIA’s Strongbox” Agency of Shady Regime-Changes in the Trump’s Sights: Website Blocked and hundreds of Layoffs

Fabio G.C. Carisio

While waiting for the Senate to lift its reservations on the nomination of Tulsi Gabbard as director of the US Intelligence Community (ODNI), the former Democrat and enemy of the Weapons Lobby who on Thursday had a stormy hearing in front of many senators skeptical of President Donald Trump’s choice, the White House has unleashed an earthquake against USAID, the US Agency for International Development, considered by geopolitical experts to be the “golden mine” or “strongbox” of the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) for regime-change operations in countries considered hostile by Washington.

USAID has in fact played fundamental roles in the long civil war in Syria, in the preparation of the coup in Ukraine where it also financed many projects on bacteriological laboratories that carried out experiments on dangerous viruses, including Covid-19, three months before its appearance.

Upon taking office, Trump immediately issued an executive order to suspend all USAID funding abroad, except for Israel and Egypt in relation to its plan to depopulate Gaza as desired by the Zionist regime of its genocidal ally Benjamin Netanyahu.

But a United States judge has temporarily blocked an order from President Donald Trump to freeze funding for a wide range of federal programs.

For this reason, the new American president, who has already obtained the nomination of John Ratcliffe as director of the CIA and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to the Department of Health (HHS), two entities connected to USAIS projects, has decided to use force by sending into action his close collaborator Elon Musk, as head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

The director of security at the U.S. Agency for International Development and his deputy were placed on administrative leave after trying to prevent employees from the Department of Government Efficiency from accessing secure USAID systems, five sources familiar with the events told NBC News.

Tech mogul and Trump ally Elon Musk said Sunday that it’s time for the U.S. Agency for International Development “to die” — the latest sign that the Trump administration is about to eliminate or seriously restructure the 64-year-old agency» Politico wrote.

USAID “is a criminal organization,” Musk, whom President Donald Trump has tasked with leading a government efficiency group — DOGE — wrote on X Sunday.

It has been a turbulent weekend for USAID, as talks about potentially folding the agency into the State Department, first reported by POLITICO, have increasingly looked like they’re turning into a concrete plan to do so.

USAID’s main X account was deleted Saturday, and its website also has been down since then. Dozens of USAID officials have been put on leave since Saturday, according to congressional staffers informed of the moves. Musk’s X post followed reports from CNN and the Associated Press that two senior USAID officials tried to block DOGE staffers from accessing USAID computer networks Saturday night.

A Democratic lawmaker and two Democratic Senate staffers, granted anonymity to discuss a sensitive and fluid issue, confirmed that DOGE representatives did ultimately gain access to USAID classified and other systems on Saturday.

The situation drew condemnation from top Democrats, who are trying to rally GOP counterparts to their side as reports spread of DOGE representatives seeking access to an array of government systems without having proper security standing.

According to the Democratic Senate staffers, around eight DOGE representatives — some with and some without proper security clearances — showed up to the main USAID offices demanding access to all doors and floors. When USAID security denied them access, the DOGE staffers warned they would call the U.S. Marshals Service to force USAID to let them in.

Two top security officials at the US Agency for International Development , among which the director, were put on administrative leave Saturday night after attempting to refuse officials from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency access systems at the agency, even after DOGE personnel threatened to call law enforcement, multiple sources familiar told CNN.

Hundreds of people were laid off today by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) as the Trump Administration’s stop-work order for foreign assistance goes into effect.

A USAID official with knowledge of the layoffs put the total at 390. The official spoke to NPR on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on behalf of the agency. The laid-off employees are all contractors based in the U.S., part of a workforce of some 10,000, the official noted.