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Musk shutters USAID leaving the world's poor in crisis. - FIVE MINUTE NEWS
The U.S. Agency for International Development, known as USAID, has fallen in the crosshairs of the Trump administration and Elon Musk's government efficiency push, sending chills through the humanitarian world and drawing criticism from Democratic lawmakers and nonpartisan foreign service workers.
Elon Musk said the team he calls the Department of Government Efficiency was in the process of "shutting down USAID," with Trump's support. Anthony Davis reports. - 02/04/2025.