Andrew Natsios, a Republican who served under George W. Bush, knocked the pair for pushing "a lot of garbage" in their efforts to gut the agency.

Judges ruled on Thursday alone to extend blocks on Trump’s birthright citizenship ban, limit Elon Musk’s access to Treasury documents and pause the deadline for federal employee buyouts.

Killing USAID by contrast is, as experts have noted, a gift to Russia and China. It's a gift to Russia because the current largest line item the USAID budget goes to Ukraine, which has been as devastated by the Russian invasion as many of those European countries were by the Nazis in 1945.