Billionaire Entrepreneur Elon Musk, now in charge of the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency, said Monday that he and President Donald Trump are going to shutter the United States Agency for International Development.
“We’re shutting it down,” he reportedly said in an audio conversation on X Spaces, part of the social media platform X. “With regards to the USAID stuff, I went over it with (the president) in detail and he agreed that we should shut it down.”
In addition, Musk wrote on X: “We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper.”
However, Trump has not confirmed that the agency is being shut down.
Musk’s announcement was not entirely unexpected, considering the administration recenty froze USAID funding and put dozens of its employees on leave. […]
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