President Trump is set to shut USAID down
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) recently reviewed where USAID funding was going. What they found was massive corruption. Musk used the worm in the apple metaphor, describing the entire deal as a “ball of worms”. A couple of USAID personnel tried to stop DOGE from accessing their system due to classified information. Musk described USAID as a criminal organization and that it had to “die.”
From CBS NEWS:
Monday, Musk held a live session on X Spaces, previously known as Twitter Spaces, and said he’d spoken in detail about USAID with President Trump. “He agreed we should shut it down,” Musk said.
“It became apparent that its not an apple with a worm it in,” Musk said. “What we have is just a ball of worms. You’ve got to basically get rid of the whole thing. It’s beyond repair. … We’re shutting it down.”
USAID staffers were instructed to stay out of the agency’s Washington headquarters on Monday, according to a notice distributed to them. Staffers said they tracked 600 employees who reported being locked out of the agency’s computer systems overnight. Those still in the system received emails saying that “at the direction of Agency leadership” the headquarters building “will be closed to Agency personnel on Monday, Feb. 3.”
USAID oversees humanitarian, development and security programs in about 120 countries around the world. One European diplomat told CBS News they view the move to dismantle it as “an extraordinary gift for Russia/China.”
Musk’s comments in the X Spaces session came after the administration placed two top security chiefs at USAID on leave. USAID Director for Security John Vorhees and Deputy Director for Security Brian McGill were put on leave Saturday night, two sources confirmed to CBS News.
Additional Reading:
Brennan, M., Cook, S. & Navarro. (2025, February 3). Musk says Trump administration is on verge of shutting down USAID. CBS News. Link.
Category: Government Incompetence, Society
Open the books, and let the American taxpayers see where their money is being funneled to. Hack Stone’s Spidey Senses says 95% went into the pockets of corrupt leaders in 3rd World Shitholes, with the requisite 10% getting kicked back to The Big Guy.
As well as other politicians getting their kickbacks! I’m sure that was just another money-laundering scam for the most part.
The business plan of The Clinton Global Initiative.
Interesting that their motto is:
“From the American people”
American flag ships used to carry USAID cargo to third world countries under PL480 until the program was scrapped by Obama…
More on that cut:
***On April 24, 2013, the chairman of USA Maritime, a coalition of carriers and maritime unions, wrote a statement which discussed the efficacy of the program and specifically the importance of the U.S. Merchant Marine in delivering the U.S. food aid to people who are undernourished around the world. Henry cited the fact that USAID’s own data actually revealed that the traditional efforts to deliver food as opposed to cash transfers for countries to buy their own food is actually 78 percent cheaper per ton of food. Henry offers that this is a significant fact in the effort to address global hunger.***
They revised the program under Obama, changing the program to provide cash donations rather than American grown and delivered food.
Uh O, Looks like we have to get Ken Thursten, the man called X and his partner Pagon Goldschmidt to straighten this out.
Meanwhile, it was just announced that Mexico will increase security along the US Border to intercept drug traffickers and illegal migration, and now the tariffs against Mexican imports. So, yet again, Donald Trump puts forward options to other nations to either cooperate and suffer consequences, and Mexico folded faster than Superman on laundry day.
Mexico agreed to send 10,000 troops to their side of the border to intercept illegal immigration and intercept drug trafficking towards the United States. Meanwhile, the rebellious “governor of the great state of Canada” has imposed retaliatory tariffs. A look at basic numbers regarding our exports to each other compared to our economies does not look good for the Canadian side.
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-trump-pauses-tariffs-on-mexico-for-one-month-after-pres-claudia-sheinbaum-will-reinforce-border-with-10000-mexican-troops
I think Trudeau is too ignorant to see what just happened in Mexico with the tariffs. And would be a path that Canada could follow. I just heard Canada is subsidized by the US. That’s got to stop. I also think a lot of Canadians yearn for freedom ( like gun rights) and lower taxes and better access to health care. The Canadians need to clean house too. 51st state, maybe not, but it has to get the Canadians thinking about there freedoms.
OFF TOPIC
66 years ago today on Feb. 3rd, 1959, we lost Buddy Holley, the Big Bopper and Richie Valens in a plane crash.
These countries already hate the US. Let ’em hate us for free.