What to know about Musk’s weekend efforts to suffocate USAID

Published February 3, 2025 10:04am ET



Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency went into action over the weekend to begin gutting the United States Agency for International Development, calling the agency a “ball of worms.”

Roughly a week after several senior USAID staffers were placed on leave for not complying with President Donald Trump’s executive order to pause all foreign aid, DOGE stepped up its efforts to apply pressure to the agency.

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