In its first two weeks, President Donald Trump’s administration has made significant changes to the U.S. Agency for International Development.

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Even as Mr Musk was speaking, workers at USAID ’s headquarters in Washington were being told not to come in the next day. Some 600 of the agency’s staff seem to have been locked out of their emails. That followed a weekend in which the agency’s website went offline;