Employees and supporters protest outside the headquarters for United States Agency for International Development (USAID), on ...

The Trump administration has expanded the power of adviser Elon Musk’s government-cutting team over the State Department.

Musk has sought, without publicly producing evidence, to portray USAID and other programs cut this year as emblematic of fraud and waste in the federal government. In March, a federal judge ruled ...

Pete Marocco led the foreign-assistance mission at the State Department.

Hours after Musk announced a plan to shutter the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) on X, the social media ...

Pete Marocco, a Trump administration official, left his position after less than three months. He and Elon Musk both ...