📰 DOGE ALLEGEDLY ASKED TREASURY TO CUT USAID PAYMENTS Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) asked the United States Treasury Department to immediately halt all United States Agency for International Development (USAID) payments only four days after President Donald Trump’s inauguration, CNN reported Thursday, citing sources. The request, made by Musk’s top lieutenants, was not accepted by then-acting Treasury Secretary David Lebryk, who replied that he lacked “the legal authority to stop an authorized payment certified by an agency.”