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.
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.
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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?