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What USAID does, and why Trump and Musk want to get rid of it
Headline from The Columbian, on the newest of 2 developments
WASHINGTON (AP) — Dozens of senior officials put on leave. Thousands of contractors laid off. A freeze put on billions of dollars in humanitarian assistance to other countries.
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The U.S. Agency for International Development is on the cusp of being shuttered, according the Trump administration's billionaire adviser and Tesla CEO Elon Musk — who has been wrestling for control of the agency in recent days.
The Trump administration has already placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they refused to turn over classified material in restricted areas to Elon Musk’s government-inspection teams.
The action added to the dozens of staff at USAID being removed from their positions, as President Trump's team moves to abolish the agency's independence
Elon Musk said President Donald Trump agreed the US Agency for International 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.
The U.S. Agency for International Development is in crisis as workers report being locked out, adding to the growing sense that President Trump will dismantle the government’s lead humanitarian aid agency.
USIAD offices were closed Monday after Trump last week ordered a 90-day freeze of foreign aid and Elon Musk said Monday the administration was working to shut down the agency.
Before employees were locked out of the agency's headquarters on Monday morning, Elon Musk claimed that Donald Trump agreed to 'shut down' the U.S. Agency for International Development, which provides a variety of foreign assistance programs in developing nations
WASHINGTON (AP) — Staffers of the U.S. Agency for International Development were instructed to stay out of the agency’s Washington headquarters, and yellow police tape and officers blocked the agency’s lobby on Monday, after billionaire Elon Musk announced President Donald Trump had agreed with him …
Elon Musk, who says President Donald Trump agrees USAID should be shut down, described the government agency as "beyond repair." Musk also expressed how much he likes the president.
As President Trump seeks to remake the federal government and push the limits of executive power, nearly all of the programs funded by USAID have been halted.
