The USAID systems the DOGE team tried to access included personnel files, three sources familiar with the events told NBC News.

Trump is reportedly trying to close the agency and move it under the State Department, which Democrats warn would be illegal.

Musk, CEO of X (formerly Twitter), has been on a posting spree, using his platform to justify and denigrate his takeover of USAID. He’s called the agency " evil ," a " criminal organization ," and a "viper’s nest of radical-left Marxists who hate America."