A group of House and Senate Democrats who attempted to access the headquarters of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) on Monday were denied entry. Why it matters: It's likely the first physical standoff between congressional Democrats and the second Trump administration — though it may not be the last as Democrats ratchet up their resistance to the new president.

Members of Congress tell the New York Sun that they expect swift legal action from those groups and employees impacted by the attempt to abolish

Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Congress that the US Agency for International Development may be subsumed into the State Department and abolished as a separate agency once his team completes a review of its practices,

The secretary of state wants to reorganize the foreign-assistance agency that Elon Musk and DOGE are pushing to eliminate.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Monday that the U.S. Agency for International Development has been rolled into the State Department, with Rubio now its acting director as a result of some legally questionable maneuvers.