Of course, CNN and most of the other outlets yammering about what Elon Musk said are mostly focusing on it being full of Democrats and Leftists doing Leftist things
Elon Musk said Donald Trump agreed USAID needs to be ‘shut down’
Development needs to be “shut down,” following days of speculation over the future of the agency after its funding was frozen and dozens of its employees were put on leave.
“With regards to the USAID stuff, I went over it with (the president) in detail and he agreed that we should shut it down,” Musk said in a X Spaces conversation early Monday.
Musk said he checked with Trump “a few times” and Trump confirmed he wants to shut down the agency, which dispenses billions in humanitarian aid and development funding annually. CNN has reached out to the White House and USAID for comment.
Sunday evening, before the X Spaces conversation, when asked for comment on USAID, Trump told reporters: “It’s been run by a bunch of radical lunatics, and we’re getting them out, and then we’ll make a decision” on its future.
In the X Spaces conversation early Monday, which he co-hosted with Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa and Vivek Ramaswamy – who was initially named co-chair of DOGE with Musk but has since left – the X owner called USAID “incredibly politically partisan” and said it has been supporting “radically left causes throughout the world including things that are anti-American.” (snip)
Other top Trump officials, such as Stephen Miller, who serves as deputy chief of staff for policy at the White House, have also taken aim at USAID, accusing its workforce of being overwhelmingly Democrats.
Blah blah blah. Let’s ask USAID
Factored into this challenge is the need for program offices to comply with existing policies and procedures, obtain and use reliable data, and hold implementers (nongovernmental organizations or NGOs, contractors, and public international organizations or PIOs) accountable for results. Simultaneously, USAID must strengthen its efforts to detect and prevent corruption, fraud, and sexual exploitation and abuse, as these serious issues compromise the integrity of Agency programs, create reputational risk to USAID, and betray the very beneficiaries its
programs are intended to assist.
Because the programs are rife with fraud, corruption, sexual exploitation and abuse, and USAID keeps giving money to the programs, countries, contractors, NGOs, and international organizations.
(Bureau of Investigative Journalism) Within its first two years of operation, the largest ever project funded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) was in crisis.
The $9.5bn initiative was led by US contractor Chemonics International. Its aim was to transform global health supply chains – the sprawling system of procurement and transport that delivers life-saving products including HIV/Aids drugs, mosquito nets and contraceptives to millions around the globe. (snip)
By the spring of 2017, it was clear the project was failing. During its worst quarter, only 7% of its shipments arrived at their destinations on time and in full. Project leaders scrambled as multiple countries ran short of essential health products and faced stock-outs.
But interviews with those closely involved, as well as the rare instances of external scrutiny, suggest serious problems persist. Chemonics has received multiple extensions to continue implementing the project – until at least November 2024. And after eight years and billions of dollars, there is little independent evidence that USAID, Chemonics and its partners have actually strengthened a global supply chain that millions rely on for life-saving medical supplies.
It’s mostly a fail. USAID is pissing away taxpayer money for little reward. Of course, this is throughout the federal government.
Like most cold war programs, the Left has subverted the program to fund themselves from it. Of course USAID needs to be shut down because it’s whole reason to exist no longer matters. The Soviet Union no longer needs to be contained.
While we are at it, we can also shut down VOA and Peace Corps for the same reason. Peace corps was never really useful for anything but a resume enhancement for wealthy kids who wanted a state department job so they would go on vacation in Africa or the Philippines (Caribbean if they were lucky) and then for the rest of their lives virtue signal about how they were in the Peace corps. Mean while, their peers were in those lovely places like Camp Casey or Grafenwöhr.
Americorps needs to be shut down because the US government should not be funding Democratic party Junior activists (the ones too poor and too stupid to go to college). The Party should fund their own activists, not use tax money to do it.
Correct. Since 1991 the globe has been nothing but peace, peaches and cream and rose petals. The US no longer needs ANY foreign outreach!
Il Douche says USAID is run by “radical lunatics” and wants to eliminate it, which is illegal, but who will stop him? LOL.
Who can stop Il Douche? The courts? LOL. American traditions, mores and ethics? ROTFLMAO!!! Congress? Gimme a break! Fat Donnie is the mob boss of America.
Apparently a majority of Americans don’t want President Trump to stop.
Bwaha! Lolgfy Loser!
MAGA47 Motherfucker!
WINNING. MAGA. KEEP IT GOING.
Remember how our good friends on the left told us that the 2024 election was vital to save democracy? Well, the voters chose Donald Trump, who ran on things like expelling all of the illegal immigrants and cutting foreign aid, in a free, fair, and democratic election. Yet now the Democrats are beside themselves that President Trump is doing the very things he said he would do, even though he was the clear, democratic choice of the voters.
Our resident Democrat wrote:
Mr Dowd’s sarcasm tells us a great truth: our foreign aid programs, not only since 1991, but much, much earlier, have not produced “peace, peaches and cream and rose petals,” so the obvious question becomes: if it hasn’t worked in the past, why should we continue it in the future?
We were told, during the Biden years, that we needed foreign aid to help the countries in Latin America, so their people wouldn’t feel the need to immigrate to the United States. Did that work? Did Hispanic immigration slow down or stop?
Albert Einstein allegedly said, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” If 64 years of USAID — it was established in 1961 — work hasn’t made other people and other countries love America and Americans, just how many more years of foreign aid will change that? How many more years of USAID will produce that “peace, peaches and cream and rose petals” of which our sage from St Louis wrote?
In fact, the world will never be Nirvana! But that doesn’t mean we give up, does it?
The people barely elected Trump to deport aliens, reduce grocery prices and harm LGBTQs. They didn’t elect him to enact Project 2025.
Non-military foreign aid is less than 1% of spending. Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Defense and Interest account for most of our spending, Elon Musk only costs taxpayers some $15 BILLION a year!!
Big Donnie will not be able to eliminate the income tax, replace it with tariffs and cut $2 TRILLION a year. He has already reneged on his tariffs against our allies and friends Mexico and Canada. He had to back away from his command to stop domestic government spending. While his Project 2025 handlers don’t have to worry about “the people”, Big Donnie and the Republicums must, because of elections.
Steve Bannon says: Trump’s strategy is to “flood the zone with shit”.
The quasi-government agency (DOGE) tried to use paramilitary methods under Il Douche!
Maybe they need to deputize the Proud Boyz. They’re all out of prison now.
Every year USAID spends the equivalent of 10% of Musk’s fortune!! Il Douche made more money in one day peddling $Trump “coins”.
Does Musk still receive at least $15 BILLION from US taxpayers? Yeah.
So a contractor with the US government is now dictating US policy. MAGA is a cult.
Curiouser and curiouser.
Aw, quit your childish whining, Rimjob.
Bwaha! Lolgfy Loser!
MAGA47 – Daddy’s Home!
Democrats love them some high level corruption because they personally benefit from it. Of course they are upset that someone wants to stop their gravy train. They haven’t been this mad since Republicans took away their slaves.
Elon Musk has contracts worth over $15 BILLION with the US government. Il Douche uses his position to rake in the billions. Would anyone buy his $Trump and $Melania tokens otherwise?
So who’s corrupt?
The current administration will go down in history as America’s most corrupt ever.
The MAGA elites plan to cut working class benefits, and give themselves tax breaks. So who’s gonna pay. Trump? Musk? Bezos? In the meantime they will jigger the electoral system to make sure the MAGA foot soldiers don’t vote them out.
Democratic Senator Menendez was/is corrupt. Where is he now? See the difference?
“I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capital building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard”. Trump
“We’re going to fight in the streets”. Hakeem Jeffries
See the difference?
And Il Douche’s forces disobeyed his suggestion and stormed the Capitol Building, destroying property and injuring police officers in an attempt to steal the 2020 election. And Il Douche turned them all free! Why even have courts, prosecutors and laws? A few have been re-captured for committing new crimes. Anyway, they had nothing to fight for except Trump’s approval!
Minority leader Jeffries said “we are going to fight it legislatively, in the courts and in the streets”.
Is that as bad or worse than Trump’s “you have to fight like hell or you won’t have a country any more!” Of course an hour later Il Douche’s mob WAS fighting it in the US Capitol.
Jl: You cherry-pick your quotes just as you cherry-pick AGW data.
Oooh Jeff, lying again. No sense in even debate what happened Jan 6 as you will lie, obfuscate, and pull up quotes out of context. There will be an inquiry into the voter fraud of 2020 and the FBI role in fermenting the riot. All these folks desired was an audit to recheck the results but Dems weren’t having that. We could have avoided all the pain of Biden’s 4 years.
Ooooh Porter, lying again. No sense to even debate what happened Jan 6 as you will lie and obfuscate.
You are mentally ill, having multiple delusions. But that’s just the way cult members are.
Il Douche said it; You believe it; That settles it!!
Funny-please be specific on what data is “cherry-picked”. Good luck
“In the courts and in the “streets” ..Yes, thanks for making my point for me..
“Fight like hell…” Yes, Trump must have been the first politician to say those words…
Those opposed to shutting down USAID are the same fools who think we can spend our way out of bankruptcy.
The United States cannot become bankrupt, even though the MAGAts are morally bankrupt.
There are still fools who believe that tax cuts for the wealthy will balance the budget!
USAID is less than 1% ($50 B) of total US spending.
President Biden spent $18 BILLION on the Israel military alone. That’s about what Elon Musk gets in from US government contracts.
Wylie,
Just to save you from the effort of responding to Jeff the troll, he has no knowledge of economics, just repeats Dem talking points.
Hey Porter Dumbass,
You’re even dumb by bedpan cleaning standards!
What facts do have a problem with? $50 BILLION USAID. $18 BILLION from US for Israel Defense? Elon Musk getting at least $15 BILLION from taxpayers?
Do you believe (we know you cannot think) that the US can go bankrupt? Even Trump and Musk can’t steal all our money!!
Does Teach pay you to type tripe??
Arlanda please…
https://slaynews.com/news/connecticut-official-arrested-changing-republican-voter-registrations-democrats/