Donald Trump has spoken about Elon Musk's controversial announcement that he plans to gut several government departments in his new role co-heading the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)

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;