With the headquarters of the US Agency for International Development nearly empty on Saturday, a small group of Elon Musk aides arrived at Washington’s Ronald Reagan Building and demanded access to the agency’s suite of offices, including a secure room designed to store classified and sensitive documents.
The team from the Department of Government Efficiency, an effort led by the world’s richest man to cut government spending, was comprised of at least four young men under 30 with backgrounds in tech – “the DOGE kids,” as they’d come to be known among some USAID staffers. They’d been seeking information from the ...