Abolishing humanitarian aid

Well, this doesn’t sound good.

Musk Says Trump Wants to Shut Down U.S. Foreign Aid Agency

I still don’t get how Musk is the boss of us.

Elon Musk said early Monday that President Trump believes the U.S. Agency for International Development should be shut down, adding to the questions over the administration’s plans for the U.S. government’s lead agency for humanitarian aid and development assistance.

Mr. Trump has stopped short of saying the agency should be dissolved. Mr. Musk said during an event broadcast on X, his social media platform, that he had discussed U.S.A.I.D. in detail with the president who agreed “that we should shut it down.”

“I want to be clear,” Mr. Musk added. “I actually checked with him a few times. I said, ‘Are you sure?’ ‘Yes.’ So we’re shutting it down.”

Oh, how scrupulous. He pushed Trump to “shut it down” and then “checked with him” – but what’s he doing there in the first place? Bad enough that Trump is there but what is Elon Musk????

The Trump administration’s moves to slash international aid programs that operate with grant money from U.S. agencies have thrown humanitarian groups around the world into crisis. U.S.A.I.D. spent about $38.1 billion on health services, disaster relief, anti-poverty efforts and other programs in fiscal year 2023. That was less than 1 percent of the federal budget.

Yes but it’s less than 1 percent squandered on horrible disgusting poor people instead of staying in the pockets of real estate hucksters and people who move fast and break things.

Mr. Musk is not a neutral player on the subject of U.S.A.I.D. He is a harsh critic who has posted a series of messages in recent days that promoted conspiracy theories about it. He labeled it “a criminal organization” in a post on Sunday, without offering evidence, and added: “Time for it to die.”

Time for Musk to return to South Africa.

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