Musk says he, Trump in process of closing US Agency for International Development

Just The News ^ | February 03, 2025 | Charlotte Hazard

[Red Badger]

Trump has not confirmed that the agency is being shut down [YET!]

Billionaire Entrepreneur Elon Musk, now in charge of the Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency, said Monday that he and President Donald Trump are going to shutter the United States Agency for International Development.

“We’re shutting it down,” he reportedly said in an audio conversation on X Spaces, part of the social media platform X. “With regards to the USAID stuff, I went over it with (the president) in detail and he agreed that we should shut it down.”

In addition, Musk wrote on X: "We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper."

However, Trump has not confirmed that the agency is being shut down.

Musk's announcement was not entirely unexpected, considering the administration recenty froze USAID funding and put dozens of its employees on leave.

The USAID is the agency most responsible for sending aid to other countries in need of development and humanitarian work.

Trump has criticized the agency in the past including saying it was "run by a bunch of radical lunatics."

Officials in the Trump administration have floated the possibility of putting the USAID under the authority of the State Department, according to NBC News.

[Ken522]

The US Agency for International Development is run by Samantha Powers ... go figure ...

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

" President Donald Trump are going to shutter the United States Agency for International Development. "

I have read elsewhere that USAID is the CIA's playground

[PGR88]

Is USAID State Departments clandestine service abroad, or is it CIA’s off-shore public front for regime change?

Whoever controlled it, it appeared to be a center for deep-state foreign policy trouble-making, completely out-of-control of Congress and even the President.

It also appeared to be involved in money-laundering to Democrat/woke causes, again, completely out-of-control and scrutiny of Congress.

Finally, it was beginning to bring globalist, European methods of censorship to the USA itself - an even greater threat to the Republic.

It must be smashed to bits.

[kabar]

The USAID is the agency most responsible for sending aid to other countries in need of development and humanitarian work.

The problem is that USAID is doing far more than that. It has become a leftist, partisan operation that pursues a radical agenda, globally and domestically. A giant slush fund.

[Red Badger]

USAID is the CIA’s playground and the Democrat’s (and some RINOS) Piggy Bank............

[dragnet2]

Go Trump!

Go after all of them with vengeance!!

[Bon of Babble]

The agency is run by “lunatic leftists,” according to Trump - and should be shut down:

“At best, maybe 10% of the money reaches real projects that help people in need but the rest is used to fuel dissent, finance protests, and undermine administrations that refuse to align with the globalist agenda.”

Employees have been locked out of the system - just as Musk did when he “cleaned house” at Twitter:

“According to AP, USAID staffers said they “also tracked more than 600 employees who reported being locked out of the agency’s computer systems overnight.”

Good Riddance.

[Red Badger]

USAID is basically a giant money-laundering machine................

[CodeToad]

I believe this corrupt agency was created by executive order and can be closed by executive order.

[Bratch]

USAID Security Directors Placed on Leave for Refusing DOGE Govt Inspection, and Claiming “Classified Information” as Justification

February 2, 2025 | Sundance 

Those who do not pretend already know the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is the cover agency for CIA influence operations worldwide. 

However, technically USAID is supposed to be the charitable side of U.S. government, supporting foreign countries.

If USAID is simply magnanimous and altruistic aid to foreign countries using taxpayer funds, then what exactly is the “classified material” they would need to withhold from DOGE review?

Sometimes all we need are simple questions to destroy the matrix of lies.

WASHINGTON DC – WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has 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, a current and a former U.S. official told The Associated Press on Sunday.

Members of Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, known as DOGE, eventually did gain access Saturday to the aid agency’s classified information, which includes intelligence reports, the former official said.

Musk’s DOGE crew lacked high-enough security clearance to access that information, so the two USAID security officials — John Vorhees and deputy Brian McGill — believed themselves legally obligated to deny access.

The current and former U.S. officials had knowledge of the incident and spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to share the information. (more)

What is this “classified material” they speak of?

What "classified info" should a presumed USA charitable enterprise, purposefully using taxpayer funding, consist of?
https://t.co/wY7NLLT6Hp

— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) February 2, 2025

For those who don’t know, USAID is the cover group for CIA intervention in all foreign affairs.

The CIA and State Dept work together.

USAID is the sub agency silo that carries out the missions.

The State Dept is the front of house, the dining room.

The CIA is the kitchen.

USAID are the staff, with DoD as the bussers.

Dissolving USAID into State, removes the cover.

The CIA activities become more obvious.

Foreign meddling, specifically messing in elections and installing foreign leaders, becomes more difficult.

[Liz]

USAID, Hillary Clinton launch Global Development Lab for game-changing innovations

After years of planning and months of delays, the U.S. Agency for International Development — with help from Hillary Clinton and 32 “cornerstone partners” — is launching a new platform to source, test and scale breakthrough development innovations. We reported it first.

By Michael Igoe // 03 April 2014 / devex.com

pic——Former Obama U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with U.S. Agency for International Development Administrator Rajiv Shah. The U.S. aid agency will launch the Global Development Lab, with Clinton to deliver the keynote address. Photo by: USAID / CC BY-NC

After 4 years in the works, multiple name changes, and numerous launch delays, the U.S. Agency for International Development is finally unveiling the Global Development Lab, which it hopes will bring greater innovation to meeting the goal of ending extreme poverty and “take game-changing solutions to more than 200 million people.” The event will take place in New York, with Hillary Clinton delivering the keynote address, following an internal launch and a USAID town hall discussion earlier this week in Washington, D.C.

The lab will initially focus on 6 thematic areas: food security and nutrition, maternal and child survival, energy access, sustainable water solutions, child literacy, and “connected technologies.” Devex first reported last August on plans to merge the USAID’s Office of Science and Technology with the Office of Innovation and Development Alliances to create a new platform for innovation, still referred to at that time as “The Institute.”

With the exception of a few more details, USAID has kept its plans for the new initiative under tight wraps. The launch of the Global Development Lab — and the agency’s public outreach preceding it — answers some questions about what the new platform will actually do, while raising some others.

READ MORE: USAID confirms — ‘The Institute’
is coming soon. An experiment in partnership

The lab launches with 32 “cornerstone partners” in place, including multinational corporations such as Coca-Cola, Nike, Microsoft, and Wal-Mart; civil society organizations and foundations including Catholic Relief Services and the Skoll Foundation; The University of California at Berkeley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and other institutions of higher learning; and Sweden, the only other bilateral donor that has so far committed to supporting the initiative.

4th Global NCD Alliance Forum on Feb 13-15
Signing on to be a “cornerstone partner” is “not a financial agreement, but instead an agreement to really work together to take transformative solutions to hundreds of millions of people,” Lona Stoll, senior advisor to USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah, told Devex.

In describing the “cornerstone partnership,” she explained, “we use the shorthand of: they will share knowledge, they will solve problems, and they will look to scale, together with the lab.” USAID already has a team dedicated to assembling and signing “global MOUs” with corporations and other development actors, but Stoll added that the cornerstone agreement represents “the next iteration of what partnership can look like” for the agency.

The initial cornerstone partners represent “$30 billion in independent investments in emerging markets,” the official said. That’s money the partners are already investing on their own in emerging markets — not money for corporate social responsibility or specially designated development programming, but investments for their core business practices.

Stoll noted the partners are “bringing their full portfolios in these countries to the table” to find areas where their business operations can find win-win opportunities to forward USAID’s mission of partnering to end extreme poverty. The lab itself, she added, “is an experiment in partnership.” ‘Lead’ missions for testing, scaling Up to 20 USAID missions have been singled out as “lead missions” for testing and scaling innovations generated through lab partnerships and sourcing.

The lab will be structured around 5 different centers: data, analysis and research; development innovation; global solutions — which Stoll will direct; transformational partnerships; and mission engagement and innovations. It will also include 2 offices: evaluation and impact assessment — which will help the agency determine which innovations to support and take to scale — and engagement and communications.

A new program for research and innovation fellows will also be rolled out at the launch. Supported by the National Science Foundation, the program plans to send U.S. graduate students overseas to work with organizations on achieving development goals in the lab’s focus countries.

The lab’s acting executive director is Andrew Sisson, USAID’s current mission director for Indonesia, though a search for the permanent executive director is ongoing.

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Michael Igoe is a Senior Reporter with Devex, based in Washington, D.C. He covers U.S. foreign aid, global health, climate change, and development finance. Prior to joining Devex, Michael researched water management and climate change adaptation in post-Soviet Central Asia, where he also wrote for EurasiaNet. Michael earned his bachelor’s degree from Bowdoin College, where he majored in Russian, and his master’s degree from the University of Montana, where he studied international conservation and development. © Copyright 2000 - 2025 Devex

[nopardons]

BTTT

[Liz]

Here’s how the USAID grift works
X ^ | 2/3/25 | Ian Miles Cheong
Posted on 2/3/2025, 10:45:17 AM by hardspunned

1) If you want taxpayer dollars from the government, be a serial grifter like Bill Kristol.
2) Create an institute dedicated to “defending democracy.”
3) USAID then gives you money to “defend democracy.”
4) Spend a portion of what they give you on kickbacks to Dem campaigns and unpaid PR,
5) push their agenda domestically or internationally.
6) Pay yourself a salary through the institute to profit.

(Excerpt) Read more at x.com ...

[Liz]

Here’s how the USAID grift works
X ^ | 2/3/25 | Ian Miles Cheong
Posted on 2/3/2025, 10:45:17 AM by hardspunned

1) If you want taxpayer dollars from the government, be a serial grifter like Bill Kristol.
2) Create an institute dedicated to “defending democracy.”
3) USAID then gives you money to “defend democracy.”
4) Spend a portion of what they give you on kickbacks to Dem campaigns and unpaid PR,
5) push their agenda domestically or internationally.
6) Pay yourself a salary through the institute to profit.

(Excerpt) Read more at x.com ...

[VideoDoctor]

Musk says he, Trump in process of closing US Agency for International Development

ROCK ON Gentlemen!

[elpadre]

that should put a dent in our massive debt and hold off bankruptcy or a while.

[Mr. K]

Read a report once About a poor person in some African nation.

He was asked what the USA could do to help.

The guy said stop sending aid.

He said when the free Food comes people take that and the farmers Go out of business. So next year the Starvation gets worse. And much of the money goes to corrupt officials anyway.

So we’ve implemented socialism there

[ridesthemiles]

NO SURPRISE THAT CHEATING HILLARY IS ALSO INVOLVED-—WAY BACK.

SHE WILL LEARN SOMEDAY THAT “THERE ARE NO POCKETS IN SHROUDS.”

[Col Frank Slade]

Look for direct financial ties USAID & Clinton Foundation.