Vice President JD Vance said a DOGE staffer who resigned after social media posts surfaced of him advocating racism should be reinstated to his role.

Andrew Natsios, the former head of USAID under President George W. Bush and a lifelong conservative, told Politico Tuesday that Musk’s snubs of the agency were a “bold-faced lie” and that the Trump administration’s idea to fold USAID’s priorities into the State Department was the “worst idea [he] could possibly imagine.”