“Time For It To Die”: Trump and Musk Nuke USAID

This rogue agency should have been eliminated or reigned in decades ago. The lack of accountability over the spending of taxpayer dollars is staggering! Secretary Rubio, now the head of USAID, has it right and should alleviate concerns of "throwing out the baby with the bathwater." The international aid will continue where deemed necessary, only now it it will be more closely aligned with U.S. national interests and foreign policies, and it will hopefully be more transparent to fiscal auditors. Ten thousand employees, stationed in over 60 countries! No wonder 60% of a $50 Billion budget is spent on Administrative costs! Ridiculous!

Wow! I knew so little about USAID, which in itself is a misnomer as it seems that huge amounts of money are being spent in all the wrong areas and not giving aid at all. This probably was a great idea and program when JFK established it, but like many government programs, it has totally forgotten its original mission statement. Nice to see Musk and Trump draining this swamp. Thank you for keeping us enlightened.

The swamp is being drained and the muck dwellers at the bottom don’t like it.

From it's beginning, USAID was set up by JFK to do good, while also giving cover to covert activities. It badly needs overhauled, and some limited "State Dept." overview and accounting, but we the people can never have a full disclosure of all it's activities. My main thought here is that now is the time for all of us who pray for Trumps safety to be re-doubled ! Also we must keep telling those on the left that it was a democratic election that gave Trump the mandate to do this sort of stuff - the vast majority of we the people voted for and want Trump to follow through on his words - "Which is Exactly what he is doing here !"

Think about the number of prior presidents that had no clue and weren’t intellectually interested. It take a serious businessman to challenge the norms, highlight and reign in wasteful government spending. God speed!

American values of liberty and capitalism need to be promoted to counter anti American propaganda, but USAID, should be accountable to the American people

I served as a PCV in Uganda from March of 2001- July of 2003 and during that time never saw USAID, CARE or Feed the Children open for business. Their doors appeared to be permanently shuttered, perhaps because they were not paying Museveni what he considered he was due. I had to report monthly to my associated college in Kampala and never once saw our NGOs open, so where did the money go? One way it was spent was on the construction of a new, mondern building to house CARE, so the money was actually going back to Uganda through materials for construction and hiring a crew, probably sanctioned by Museveni's mafia. It made me doubt all NGOs, so that I don't give until I do the research into who gets what. Even Museveni is in on the take, seizing and blackmarketing everything entering Uganda. He even attempted to take our teachers' salaries until the Treasury Sec., O'Neill insisted we all open a bank account, in which U.S. monies would be automatically paid, including mine.

USAID has caused a lot of damage in Latin America in the last 20 years. Not a good agency anyore

I’m a little concerned that the concept of ‘throwing the baby out with the baby water’ could be taking place. While errors in policy judgments, given who was directing the USAID, could one reason its lost its focus, eliminating it could have equally devastating results. Hopefully an analysis of its spending, followed by why and what was the return on investment should indicate which programs should be retained. Even if those successful program move to a different government agency. To me the problem is more(bad) political guidance than operational guidance and Congress should evaluate its role in funding after receiving an in-depth report back from the Administration. We may need ‘butter rather than guns’ in some situations. Than

USAID is total corruption in our government. USAID is probably at the center of mass waste, fraud, influence peddling by many of our politicians. This is a deep state and democrat party slush fund! Thousands of government workers need fired ASAP.

This is an organization that most of us have never heard of so how do all these screaming people automatically condemn it possibly going away? I think organizations like this need be visible with what the money is being spent on so that then people might see exactly how useless this and many other governmental groups are.

I am very enthusiastic about what DOGE, Trump, and Sec'y. of State Rubio are doing with USAID! Perhaps that organization should be leveled to the ground and a new foreign aid organization, or arm of the State Department (or someone else) could be built with all new staffing.

Although, any new Secretary of State or head of another department of the federal government, under another radical liberal administration, could ruin it all over again. A permanent spending watchdog department may be needed, in the future, or some more palatable solution.

Meanwhile, GO Trump, DOGE, and Rubio!

USAID has done some good in the world and not all who work there are criminals. Some are good honorable people. The waste and corruption should be cleared out and let the agency go back to its original purpose. Lack of accountability and leadership have led to these problems, the current administration can hopefully restore it.

This is why we elected Donald J. Trump. He and Musk will get rid of these malicious money pits.