Elon Musk USAID: Were Elon Musk’s DOGE employees threatened at USAID headquarters? Here’s what we know

DOGE staff had a standoff with the USAID officials Saturday when they sought access to some information.

The USAID turmoil followed a major turmoil Saturday in the course of which one call went straight to Elon Musk, inside reports claimed. At least four “DOGE kids” have been visiting the USAID headquarters and seeking information from USAID officials for several days. They were referred to as kids as all of them are under 30 with backgrounds in tech, Bloomberg News reported identifying them as Luke Farritor, Edward Coristine, Jeremy Lewin and Gavin Kliger.
On Saturday, they requested to enter a highly secure room as they visited several floors and searched desks. The secure room, called a secure compartmented information facility or SCIF is located on the second floor of the Reagan Building. The documents they were seeking were not classified but entry to SCIF requires security clearance.
The report said one of the “DOGE kids” made a call to Elon Musk who informed the agency’s security officials that he would involve the US Marshals Service if his team wasn’t given access. Following this, they received access to what they were looking for but that was no secret information, Trump team’s Katie Miller said.

Acting DC attorney ED Martin wrote a letter to Elon Musk that Musk acknowledged on X hinting that he worked with the DOGE team this weekend. “I recognize that some of the staff at DOGE has been targeted publicly. At this time, I ask that you utilize me and my staff to assist in protecting the DOGE work and the DOGE workers. Any threats, confrontations, or other actions in any way that impact their work may break numerous laws,” Martin wrote in his letter. However, there was no mention of USAID.
Senator Joni Ernst who appeared on an X Space where Elon Musk announced that USAID would be shut down and Donald Trump agreed to it said she was threatened by USAID officials for she tried to know what they were doing with taxpayers’ money. “It is outrageous that a taxpayer-funded organization would threaten a US Senator who is simply trying to figure out if American taxpayer money is being spent correctly and not fraudulently,” Musk said.