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. Agency for International Development.

DOGE’s efforts to stop USAID payments undermine assurances that the department gave to federal lawmakers in a Tuesday letter that it sought only to review the integrity of the payments and had “read-only access” to the system as part of an audit process.

The largest U.S. government worker union and an association of foreign service workers sued the Trump administration on Thursday in an effort to reverse its aggressive dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development.

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,