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(The Guardian) Musk: Trump has agreed that USAid be shut down
Unelected billionaire Elon Musk has said that he has discussed the future of the US Agency for International Development (USAid) with president Donald Trump, who has agreed “we should shut it down.”
Associated Press reports that during a call on the social media platform that Musk owns, X, Musk said: It became apparent that its not an apple with a worm it in. What we have is just a ball of worms. You’ve got to basically get rid of the whole thing. It’s beyond repair. We’re shutting it down.
On Sunday Musk had written on X, formerly known as Twitter, that “USAid is a criminal organization. Time for it to die.”
The agency’s website vanished Saturday without explanation, and the president said on Sunday night that it had been “run by a bunch of radical lunatics.”
The agency has a budget of over $50bn and is one of the largest foreign aid agencies in the world.
On 26 January the state department issued a statement saying that it was “pausing all US foreign assistance … for review.” It said that newly appointed secretary of state Marco Rubio was “initiating a review of all foreign assistance programs to ensure they are efficient and consistent with US foreign policy under the America First agenda.”
Unelected billionaire Elon Musk has said that he has discussed the future of the US Agency for International Development (USAid) with president Donald Trump, who has agreed “we should shut it down.”
Associated Press reports that during a call on the social media platform that Musk owns, X, Musk said: It became apparent that its not an apple with a worm it in. What we have is just a ball of worms. You’ve got to basically get rid of the whole thing. It’s beyond repair. We’re shutting it down.
On Sunday Musk had written on X, formerly known as Twitter, that “USAid is a criminal organization. Time for it to die.”
The agency’s website vanished Saturday without explanation, and the president said on Sunday night that it had been “run by a bunch of radical lunatics.”
The agency has a budget of over $50bn and is one of the largest foreign aid agencies in the world.
On 26 January the state department issued a statement saying that it was “pausing all US foreign assistance … for review.” It said that newly appointed secretary of state Marco Rubio was “initiating a review of all foreign assistance programs to ensure they are efficient and consistent with US foreign policy under the America First agenda.”
