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The best testament to USAID's contribution is the surge in PRC-backed and Russian-backed propaganda maligning USAID and our work around the world,
she said, using the initials of China's official name, the People's Republic of China They serve to destabilize world peace by promoting ideas in foreign countries that are directly inverse to harmonious and stable relations internal to and among countries,
I think Elon is doing a good job. He's a big cost-cutter. Sometimes we won't agree with it and we'll not go where he wants to go. But I think he's doing a great job."
Trump told reporters on Sunday To put it bluntly, these payment systems simply cannot fail, and any politically-motivated meddling in them risks severe damage to our country and the economy."
Senator Ron Wyden, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, said in a letter As we dug into USAID, it became apparent that what we have here is not an apple with a worm it in but hat we have actually just a ball of worms. USAID is a ball of worms, there is no apple. And when there is no apple... you've just got to basically get rid of the whole thing. That is why it's got to go. It's beyond repair."
I actually checked with him a few times. Said 'Are you sure?' Yes, so we're shutting it down,
Elon can't do, and won't do, anything without our approval,
Trump told reporters at the White House on Monday I went over with him in detail, and he agreed that we should shut it down,
Musk said in a discussion on his X online platform I can think of no good reason why political operators who have demonstrated a blatant disregard for the law would need access to these sensitive, mission-critical systems,
Democratic Senator Ron Wyden wrote in a letter to Trump's new Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent It's a gross abuse of power by an unelected bureaucrat and it shows money can buy power in the Trump White House,
Welch said in an emailed statement Further guidance will be forthcoming,
We're getting them out, and then we'll make a decision."
Regulations basically should be default gone. Default gone, not default there, default gone,
he said, although he did not make clear if he was speaking for himself or for others in the administration Did you know that USAID, using YOUR tax dollars, funded bioweapon research, including Covid-19, that killed millions of people?"
In a subsequent post, Musk doubled down and, without giving evidence, asked his 215 million X followers USAID is a criminal organization. Time for it to die,
Musk posted to the social platform X, which he owns Having an unelected billionaire, with his own foreign debts and motives, raiding U.S. classified information is a grave threat to national security,
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