Elon Musk, now head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in the Trump administration, «is working to close USAID» — and the newly minted US president allegedly supported him in this
USAID — USAID is an independent agency of the US government responsible for providing non-military assistance to other countries. In 2023 alone, the organization spent $72 billion on its own projects, and in 2024 — provided 42% of all humanitarian aid tracked by the UN In Ukraine, USAID supported a number of media and volunteer projects, but after January 26, it suspended its work for 90 days at the behest of the State Department
Instead, Elon Musk, according to Reuters, states that the «agency is beyond repair and proposes to close it, with Trump allegedly supporting him in this. It should be noted that on Sunday there were Two senior security officials at USAID are fired who tried to prevent DOGE representatives from accessing closed parts of the building.
The day before the reports of the potential closure of USAID, Musk also wrote a series of posts on X about the organization, in which he claimed that it «funded the development of biological weapons such as COVID-19 with tax dollars from ordinary Americans».
Did you know that USAID, using YOUR tax dollars, funded bioweapon research, including COVID-19, that killed millions of people? https://t.co/YVwyKA7ifs
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 2, 2025
He also retweeted posts about USAID being a «CIA front organization» and «the largest global terrorist organization in history», and wrote that it was time for the agency «to die».
USAID is a criminal organization.
Time for it to die. https://t.co/sWYy6fyt1k
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 2, 2025
Musk has also previously stated that by eliminating improper spending and fraud, the Trump administration could cut $1 trillion from the US deficit next year, but did not provide any evidence of his calculations.
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