Elon Musk, the world’s richest person and controversial close advisor to the world’s richest person and President Donald Trump, said on Monday that veteran USAID Humanist Agency would “close” as part of its radical – and critics say that unconstitutional – to shrink a US government Drive.
Employees of the US Agency for International Development, who run a support program in about 120 countries, were directed not to visit their offices on Monday by email. ABC News reported that some 600 employees excluded themselves from their computer system.
Musk called USAID “a criminal organization” and declared “you have basically got rid of the whole thing.”
The founder of SpaceX and Tesla – who have large -scale contracts with the US government and the biggest donor of Trump’s President’s campaign – said he has approved the unprecedented step against a major wing of the US government with Trump with Trump that he had approved the unprecedented step against Trump. .
In a discussion on his X online platform, Musk said, “I went into detail with them, and they agreed that we should shut down it.”
Usaid is the finance branch of the US foreign policy, the finance of health and emergency programs in the world’s poorest regions. It is also seen as an important source of soft power for superpower in its struggle for the influence of rivals including China.
Echoing a distant Republican, Musk used X to hate the US to hate the US nest “A Wiper’s fundamentalist-left Marxists.”
Unconstitutional?
Democrats, who have minorities in the Congress, are playing alarms on what they say, on grabbing an unconstitutional power by Trump and Kasturi.
The Congress has authority over the American budget, but the Kasturi-whose so-called Government Efficiency Department (DOGE) is not a formal government agency-he says that he can decide how the money is used.
Because Musk is neither a federal employee nor a government official, it is not clear who or his informal agency is accountable – apart from Trump.
The speed and intensity of the operation of the musk, which is using employees brought from its companies, has caught opponents from the guard.
In a particularly stressful episodes, Musk’s team emphasized on achieving access to the highly sensitive payment system of the treasury, which is used to send trillion dollars a year throughout the government. It also includes personal data on the health of Americans.
Unable to stop it, American media said, top civil servant David Labric in Treasury Department quit his job on Friday.
Democratic senator Ron Widen wrote in a letter to Trump’s new Treasury Secretary, Scott Besant, “I can’t think of any good reason why political operators have demonstrated a clear disregard for the law, these sensitive, mission-free The systems will require access to. “
USAID in Crosshair
Attack on USAID comes in terms of long-running narratives on the Republican Party’s far-flung and liberal wings that the United States wastes money on foreigners, ignoring Americans.
The agency has described itself as a work “to eliminate excessive poverty and to promote flexible, democratic societies to eradicate our safety and prosperity.
Its budget of more than $ 40 billion is a small decline in the annual expenditure of the overall US government of about $ 7 trillion.
Other criticisms, which Musk has not confirmed, claims that USAID “wicked CIA work” and even “funded bioopon research, including Kovid -19, killed millions. “
Trump on Sunday resonated the rhetoric that on Sunday the USAID is run by a group of radical lunatics. “
A person welcoming a clear death to the aid agency was a former Russian President – and the current ruler Vladimir Putin – a colleague for Dimitri Medvedev.
“Smart Move by @Lonmusk is trying to plug the deep neck of usaid,” Medvedev posted on X.
Matthew Kavanagh, Head of the Center for Global Health Policy and Politics, the University of Georgetown University, called the Running Down of USAID “a disaster for the US Foreign Policy”.
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