President Donald Trump has revoked his predecessor Joe Biden’s security clearance in a blizzard of new orders.
US presidents are traditionally given the right to receive intelligence briefings even after they step down.
Trump’s move escalates his campaign to dismantle the US humanitarian agency charged with helping the world’s poorest and extending American influence around the globe.
In a new series of rapid-fire power plays, the 78-year-old billionaire also froze aid to South Africa, where his top donor Elon Musk was born, and named himself head of one of Washington’s premier cultural venues, the Kennedy Center.
