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USAID is a criminal organization,
We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper,
Musk boasted in a social media post That’s when the incredulity began setting in,
This is not about getting rid of foreign aid.”
Appearing on Fox News on Monday, Rubio said That’s a huge risk to those individuals, but it’s also a risk to the health of the world more broadly,
To be very explicit about what is being turned off, the sort of things that are being stopped, are programs that support 20 million people on lifesaving HIV treatment right now,
Jeremy Konyndyk, a former USAID employee and president of Refugees International, a rights advocacy organization, told NBC News Considering raising $500B from USAID, ... Funding secured. Stop me if you can Elon Musk,
he wrote, adding ... he wrote Just start again with a new department of immigration, staffed by people who believe in the cause of sovereign independence,
Reform leader Richard Tice said in 2023 USAID has so many things that, the truth is, yes, it is better they close it. And that, in any case, if there is going to be aid for different types, they should open other types of channels; that they be transparent, that is the issue, the big issue,
said Sheinbaum in her Tuesday morning press conference The elimination of these programs would not only harm individuals and groups in Mexico but could undermine the current administration’s approach to migration, weakening efforts to address the root causes of migration, such as crime and insecurity,
While marketed as support for development, democracy, and human rights, the majority of these funds are funneled into opposition groups, NGOs with political agendas, and destabilizing movements,
Bukele wrote on the X media site He [Trump] agreed we should shut it down,
Musk said during a live session on X on Monday Funding has to be looked at, but I would suspect that that's a very small minority of the funding that the U.S. does."
Asked about funding to terrorist-linked groups, Michael, a member of Veterans for Peace, said If the White House would take the time to look at where the funding goes, I think they'd be more than happy with the results and the impact of U.S. taxpayer dollars to make the U.S. safer, stronger, and more prosperous,
said Mary, who is retired Foreign aid is less than 1% of the U.S. budget. So it's a very small monetary number,
I don't want to hear anything about funding until we stop corporate welfare,
one protester, who was wearing a mask, told Fox News Digital I think before we talk about funding that we're sending off to other countries or devoting to poor people in this country that need help,
We need to be worrying about our people. We're not out here giving money to help our people here and suffering,
This is not about getting rid of foreign aid. There are things that we do through USAID that we should continue to do that make sense. And we'll have to decide, is that better through the State Department, or is that better through something, a reformed USAID? That's the process we're working through."
Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Fox News on February 3: I don't know about you. But as an American taxpayer, I don't want my dollars going toward this crap. And I know the American people don't either. And that's exactly what Elon Musk has been tasked by President Trump to do. To get the fraud, waste and abuse out of the federal government."
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters
