4 days ago · Why is Elon Musk going after USAID? Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, known as DOGE, has launched a sweeping effort empowered by Trump to fire government workers and cut trillions in government spending. USAID is one of his prime targets. Musk alleges USAID funding been used to launch deadly programs and called it a “criminal ...

4 days ago · Tech billionaire Elon Musk said Monday that he and President Donald Trump were in the process of shutting down the USAID, escalating their war on the federal bureaucracy.

1 day ago · USAID was investigating its relationship with Starlink just months before tech billionaire Elon Musk attempted to shut the agency down, according to reports.. The freezes and cuts to the foreign ...

4 days ago · More:Trump makes DOGE head Elon Musk a special government employee. Musk discussed eliminating USAID during an hourlong audio-only event Monday shortly after midnight on his social media site X ...

2 days ago · Since coming into power, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has barraged USAID, the international aid agency that dispenses food and supplies to nations all over the world.

2 days ago · Q&A ‘What Elon Musk Said Is a Bold-Faced Lie’ A former Republican director of USAID says the agency is critical to U.S. interests and can’t be abolished or folded into the State Department.

1 day ago · How an ex-State Department official fueled Elon Musk’s attack on USAID. Mike Benz appeared on Joe Rogan’s podcast in late December to discuss USAID, spurring Musk’s first mention of the agency.

3 days ago · Inside Elon Musk’s Killing of USAID Saboteurs, tears, and a last-minute push to save lives. By Jonathan Guyer, a journalist and program director at Institute for Global Affairs.

2 days ago · The drive by Mr. Trump and Mr. Musk to unravel the agency is part of a wider campaign against almost all American foreign aid. Mr. Trump signed an executive order on Jan. 20 ordering a halt to the ...

3 days ago · President Trump and billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk have moved to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which spent some $30 billion last year on humanitarian ...