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It's a gross abuse of power by an unelected bureaucrat and it shows money can buy power in the Trump White House,
Welch said in an emailed statement Did you know that USAID, using YOUR tax dollars, funded bioweapon research, including Covid-19, that killed millions of people?
In one subsequent post, Musk doubled down and again without giving evidence, asked his 215 million X followers There's no excusing it - it's a shameful, stupid, self-own without excuse and a harbinger of even worse to come.
The United States won’t stand for it, we will act,
Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform, He's a big cost-cutter. Sometimes we won't agree with it or we'll not go where he wants to go...he's a smart guy. Very smart. And he's very much into cutting the budget of our federal government,
Having an unelected billionaire, with his own foreign debts and motives, raiding US classified information is a grave threat to national security,
USAID was a viper’s nest of radical-left Marxists who hate America" and "USAID is evil."
He also wrote several other posts about the agency, saying things like USAID is a criminal organization. Time for it to die,
Musk posted to the social platform X, which he owns They were given access to several secure spaces, including the Office of Security and the Executive Secretariat,
Most governments don't want USAID funds flowing into their countries because they understand where much of that money actually ends up
Nayib Bukele, El Salvador's president, said in an X post on Sunday A President cannot eliminate an appropriated federal agency by executive order. That's what a despot - who wants to steal the taxpayers money to enrich his billionaire cabal - does. Watch USAID tonight."
Senator Chris Murphy, a Connecticut Democrat, wrote in an X post on January 31 The U.S. government is not a charity."
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