Washington:
Elon Musk, the world’s richest person and the controversial close adviser of President Donald Trump, said on Monday that the gigantic USaid Humanitarian Agency “is being closed” as part of his radical and critics say unonderer -conscious – to reduce the American government.
Employees of the US Agency for International Development, which carries out tools in around 120 countries, were instructed by E -mail not to go to their offices on Monday. About 600 employees were from their computer systems, ABC News reported.
Musk called USAID “a criminal organization” and stated “you actually have to get rid of the whole thing.”
The founder of SpaceX and Tesla – who has enormous contracts with the American government and was the greatest donor of Trump’s presidential campaign – said he had removed the unprecedented movement against a large wing of the American government with Trump himself.
“I went with him in detail and he agreed that we had to close it,” Musk said in a discussion on his online platform.
USAID is the help of American foreign policy, the financing of health and emergency programs in the poorest regions in the world. It is also seen as an important source of soft power for super power in his struggle for influence with rivals, including China.
Following the extreme right-wing Republicans, Musk X used the desk ‘a Viper’s nest or radical-left Marxists who hate America’.
Unconstitutional?
Democrats, who keep the minority in the congress, sound the alarm about what they say is an unconstitutional grip of Trump and Musk.
The congress has authority on the American budget, but Musk-Wiens so-called Department of the Efficiency (Doge) is not even a formal government agency that he can decide how money is used.
Because Musk is neither a federal employee nor a government official, it remains unclear to whom he or his informal agency is responsible – other than to Trump.
Opponents have overwhelmed the pace and intensity of the functioning of Musk, which uses employees who are brought from his own companies.
In a particularly tense episode, the Musk team was insisting to gain access to the very sensitive payment system of the treasury, which is used to send trillion dollars a year over the entire government. It also contains the personal information about the sinks of Americans.
Unable to prevent this, left the best official from the Ministry of Finance, David Lebryk, his job on Friday, American media reported.
“I can’t think of a good reason why political operators who have demonstrated a flagrant contempt for the law need access to these sensitive, mission -critical systems,” wrote Democratic senator Ron Wyden in a letter to the new Treasury Minister, Scott Bessent.
USAID in the barrel
The attack on USAID comes in the context of long-term stories about the extreme right-wing and libertary wings of the Republican Party that the United States loses money to foreigners while ignoring Americans.
The agency describes itself “to end extreme poverty and to promote resilient, democratic societies while we promote our safety and prosperity.”
The budget of more than $ 40 billion is a small decrease in the total annual spending of the US government of almost $ 7 trillion.
Among other things, criticism, which Musk has not substantiated, claims that USAID “Rogue CIA work” and even “Bioweapon research, including COVID-19, has financed, who killed millions of people.”
Trump repeated this rhetoric and said on Sunday that USAID is being run by a bunch of radical lunatics’.
One person welcomed the apparent death clock for the emergency office was former Russian president – and ally of the current ruler Vladimir Putin – Dmitry Medvedev.
“Smart move from @elonmusk, in an attempt to connect the deep throat of USAID,” placed Medvedev on X.
Matthew Kavanagh, head of the Center for Global Health Policy & Politics from Georgetown University, called the running of USAID ‘a disaster for our foreign policy’.
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