Officials working with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency sought access to the Treasury Department payment system to stop money from flowing to the U.S.

House Republican allies of President Trump are looking for him to set his government efficiency sights on the Department of Education.

The Trump administration on Tuesday night announced it was placing most of the U.S. Agency for International Development's (USAID) worldwide staffers on leave. Why it matters: It's the latest blow the Trump administration has dealt to the world's largest humanitarian aid organization,

WASHINGTON − About 10,000 employees of the United States Agency for International Development, excluding essential personnel, have been notified that they will be placed on administrative leave at the end of Friday as President Donald Trump moves to dismantle the foreign aid agency.

Elon Musk has no access to the Treasury's tax and Social Security data, a government lawyer said. Treasury agreed to keep it that way.

President Donald Trump and his billionaire adviser Elon Musk have launched a full-frontal assault on the United States Agency for International Development. Pending a review, Trump has ordered a pause to all US foreign aid — with some exceptions — and Musk has threatened to shut down the independent government agency entirely,

While Department of Government Efficiency head Elon Musk said he was working to "shut down" USAID, it wasn't clear whether the official position of President Donald Trump's administration was to shut it down or merge it into the U.