The administration is also placing all but a select few personnel on administrative leave.

Employees of USAID, the agency that provides humanitarian and other aid domestically and globally, have been targeted by Trump and his right-hand man Elon Musk who have misrepresented the agency as wasteful.

“As of 11:59 p.m. EST on Sunday, February 23, 2025, all USAID direct hire personnel, with the exception of designated personnel responsible for mission-critical functions, core leadership and/or specially designated programs, will be placed on administrative leave globally,” the notices, obtained by AP, said.

In an all-caps Truth Social message, Trump congratulated the conservative party in Germany for their predicted victory, claiming it was a “great day for Germany and for the United States” under his leadership.

Trump claimed the people of Germany “got tired of the no common sense agenda, especially on energy and immigration”

“THIS IS A GREAT DAY FOR GERMANY, AND FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF A GENTLEMAN NAMED DONALD J. TRUMP.”

Trump did not name the party, the Christian Democratic Union of Germany, in his post.

While CDU is a conservative party in Germany, Elon Musk and endorsed the far-right Alternative for Germany party before the election. Vice President JD Vance also met with an AfD co-leader.

AfD made huge gains in the election, an indication of strong support for a far-right party since World War II.

Former Vice President Kamala Harris used her first public speech since leaving the White House to slam President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, leader of the Department of Government Efficiency.

“This chapter will be written, not simply by whoever occupies the Oval Office, nor by the wealthiest among us,” Harris said. “The American story will be written by you, written by us, by We the People.”

Harris was honored Saturday evening with the Chairman’s Award at the 56th NAACP Image Awards. The award honors those who “excel in public service and leverage their unique platforms to ignite and drive meaningful change.”

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard became the latest Trump administration official to order employees not to follow Elon Musk’s orders to email their work accomplishments in the past week.

Joining FBI Director Kash Patel and leaders in the State Department, Gabbard asked intelligence community officers to not answer the email, citing sensitivity concerns around the work.

“Given the inherently sensitive and classified nature of our work, IC employees should not respond to the OPM email,” Gabbard wrote in an email obtained by the New York Times.

A gathering of anti-Trump conservatives in Washington DC was evacuated on Sunday after receiving what officials with the organization called a “credible bomb threat” they said was sent in by an account claiming to represent Enrique Tarrio, former leader of the Proud Boys.

Video of attendees being evacuated was posted to Twitter along with a statement from summit organizers. An initial version of the statement identified Tarrio — who’d been at the summit on Saturday “harassing” families of officers who defended the Capitol on January 6, per organizers — as having sent in the threat.

Former New Jersey governor Chris Christie compared the government’s current management to that of a “clown car” and accused Elon Musk of overreaching his authority.

Christie, a former Trump ally who has broken away from the president in recent years, said Musk is likely overstepping his legal authority in asking government employees to explain their work or resign.

Speaking with ABC’s This Week on Sunday, Christie called Musk’s effort a “complete overstep.”

Christie said every job “varies from week to week” so it would be unfair to judge a person’s work from one week.

He also criticized Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency team, claiming they were poorly managing the government. He used FBI Director Kash Patel’s recent email asking federal workers to ignore Musk’s directive as an example.

“This type of idea, of Musk coming in there with the chainsaw he was famously brandishing at a political event in Washington D.C. this week, it’s a lot more complicated than that. Running government is a lot more complicated than that and hopefully they get their act together at some point,” Christie said.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth blamed Democrats for “mischaracterizing” the firing spree carried out by President Donald Trump at the Pentagon and said on Sunday that the military’s top brass was not at risk of political reprisals.

Steve Witkoff, the special envoy to the Middle East, said on Sunday that Russia should not be totally blamed for invading Ukraine because they were “provoked” by Ukraine’s desire to join NATO.

Witkoff took the position that President Donald Trump has recently taken, claiming, “The war didn’t need to happen. It was provoked. It doesn’t necessarily mean it was provoked by the Russians.”

“There were all kinds of conversations back then about Ukraine joining NATO. The president has spoken about this. That didn’t need to happen. It basically became a threat to the Russians,” Witkoff said on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday.

“Those are real facts”

National Security Adviser Mike Waltz refused to agree that Russia was the aggressor in the conflict with Ukraine, during an interview with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo.

“Can you acknowledge that Russia is the aggressor here?”

“Well, you know what, who would you rather have going toe-to-toe with the likes of Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong-un, Xi or anyone else? Joe Biden or Donald Trump?” Waltz answered.

Waltz insinuated Russia only invaded Ukraine when George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Biden were presidents but that it would not under Trump because of his “strength”.

Last week, Trump falsely asserted Ukraine had started the war and called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a “dictator”