The Trump administration last month put on leave about 60 senior career officials at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), after Washington put a sweeping freeze on aid worldwide.
It was reported this week that USAID staffers were instructed to stay out of the agency's Washington headquarters, after Musk announced Trump had agreed with him to shut the agency.
Politico reported Tuesday that the administration intends to put nearly the entire Washington, D.C., USAID staff on leave.