Elon Musk has announced the closure of the United States International Cooperation Agency and has dropped the possibility of integrating it into the State Department. Defines it as a terrorist organization, “A nest of vipers of the radical left that hates your country.” He assures that Trump agrees with this decision. They had already frozen almost all funds for aid abroad for three months. It is one of the most transcendent decisions of the Trump administration and the impact on the poor world can be terrible.
Musk explained during a night debate this morning in one of his companies, X Spaces, who has reviewed Usaid’s problems in detail with Trump and asked several times if I was sure I wanted to close it And he agreed to do it, according to the American media.
The statements about the future of the agency by Musk, one of Trump’s main support in his new government, follows the decision of the Republican President to freeze almost all funds for aid programs abroad for ninety days USAID, whose budget exceeded during the presidency of Joe Biden the 60,000 million dollars.
Israel and Egypt are exempted from the freezing of funds from this body, which In 2023 he helped 180 countries, With Ukraine at the head (more than 17,000 million dollars), followed by Israel (3.3 billion), Jordan (1,686 million) and Egypt (1.5 billion dollars) Axios also informs that representatives of the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge), That the billionaire headed, had visited the USAID headquarters in Washington and accessed classified spaces and data from US citizens.
Since Trump agreed to the White House for a second term, the USAID, an independent federal agency responsible for planning and managing economic and humanitarian assistance in the world, has been in the spotlight of its administration and, especially, of Elon Musk.
Source: Lasexta
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