{"id":37996,"date":"2025-02-02T20:55:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T02:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=37996"},"modified":"2025-02-02T21:01:11","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T03:01:11","slug":"musk-calls-usaid-a-criminal-organization-that-should-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=37996","title":{"rendered":"Musk calls USAID a \u2018criminal organization\u2019 that should \u2018die\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Tech billionaire&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/elon-musk\/\"><u>Elon Musk\u2002<\/u><\/a>said he believes the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is a \u201ccriminal organization\u201d that should \u201cdie.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cUSAID is a criminal organization. Time for it to die,\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1886102414194835755\"><u>Musk posted<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;to the social platform X, which he owns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Musk was responding to the news that senior officials at USAID physically attempted to block people from Musk\u2019s new advisory board, the \u201cDepartment of Government Efficiency,\u201d from having access to secure systems,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/national-security\/usaid-security-leaders-removed-refusing-elon-musks-doge-employees-acce-rcna190357\"><u>NBC News reported<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The Trump administration is making USAID a target in its wide-ranging changes to the federal government. In a three-page letter last week, it was revealed&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/donald-trump\/\"><u>President Trump\u2002<\/u><\/a>is considering&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/5120310-democrats-donald-trump-usaid-state-department\/\"><u>merging the organization<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;into a branch under the State Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Several federal websites have&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5120036-opm-trump-federal-government-website\/\"><u>gone dark<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;in recent days, including USAID\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The organization provides humanitarian assistance to other countries impacted by conflicts and assists developing countries in various other ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The agency has a budget of more than $50 billion and was formed in 1961.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Shortly after taking office, Trump signed an executive order that put a temporary freeze on federal funding. A judge&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/regulation\/court-battles\/5111837-trump-federal-aid-freeze-blocked\/\"><u>temporarily blocked<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;Trump\u2019s plan to freeze the aid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5122128-musk-calls-usaid-a-criminal-organization-that-should-die\/\">thehill<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech billionaire&nbsp;Elon Musk\u2002said he believes the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is a \u201ccriminal organization\u201d that should \u201cdie.\u201d \u201cUSAID is a criminal organization. Time for it to die,\u201d&nbsp;Musk posted&nbsp;to the social platform X, which he owns. Musk was responding to the news that senior officials at USAID physically attempted to block people from Musk\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":37997,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[32207,1330,32206],"class_list":["post-37996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-criminal-organizations","tag-musk","tag-usaid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37998,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37996\/revisions\/37998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}