Trump 'agreed' on shutting down USAID, Elon Musk says
Elon Musk, who is spearheading the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) effort, said during an X spaces conversation that President Donald Trump agreed that the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) should be shut down.
Musk indicated that the shut-down process is underway.
He said that unlike an apple contaminated by a worm, the agency is "a bowl of worms."
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"There is no apple," he said. "It's beyond repair."
Musk noted that the more he has gotten to know Trump, the more he likes the president.
"Frankly, I love the guy. He's great," the business tycoon said of the commander in chief.
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Musk has been excoriating USAID in posts on X.
"USAID is a criminal organization. Time for it to die," he tweeted.
"USAID was a viper’s nest of radical-left marxists who hate America," he asserted.
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"We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper. Could [have] gone to some great parties. Did that instead," Musk noted.