Well, it looks like Elon Musk and President Trump just took a flamethrower to one of Washington’s biggest slush funds—USAID. And predictably, the left is absolutely losing its mind. The U.S. Agency for International Development, which has been funneling billions of taxpayer dollars into “humanitarian” efforts (aka shady foreign projects that nobody voted for), just got the boot, courtesy of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Musk himself.
Musk, never one to mince words, made it clear in an X Spaces discussion that this wasn’t just some minor reorganization—it was a full-blown shutdown. “We’re shutting it down,” he said. And why? Because, according to Musk, USAID isn’t just a “bad apple” with a few worms in it—it is the worms.
Wow, so USAID—doesn’t even stand for U.S. “AID” it stands for “United States Agency for International Development” and their budget is BIGGER than the State Dept. and the actual CIA COMBINED. 🤯@MikeBenzCyber is a walking, talking encyclopedia of the Deep State pic.twitter.com/BJMEvCbuje
— Lindsay Penney (@TexasLindsay_) February 3, 2025
The writing was on the wall early Monday when an email went out to USAID staffers telling them, in so many words, pack it up, you’re done. More than 600 employees were locked out of their systems overnight. The few who could still log in were met with an email that directed all inquiries to Gavin Kliger, a top adviser at DOGE. Translation? The Musk-led efficiency team had officially seized the controls.
And the reaction from the usual suspects has been nothing short of hilarious. USAID staffers, many of whom have spent their careers directing U.S. tax dollars to everything from climate change programs in Bangladesh to “gender equity initiatives” in the Middle East, were suddenly confronted with the reality that their cushy, bureaucratic empire was crumbling. Musk summed it up best when he said, “We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper. Could’ve gone to some great parties. Did that instead.”
Of course, USAID’s defenders are desperately trying to paint this as some kind of reckless act. They’re crying that the agency provides crucial foreign aid and supports global security. But let’s be honest—USAID has become little more than a laundering operation for the globalist agenda. It’s been dumping billions into corrupt foreign governments, shady NGOs, and “nation-building” disasters that always seem to backfire.
Trump himself didn’t hold back, either. When asked about USAID’s closure, he simply said, “It’s been run by a bunch of radical lunatics. And we’re getting them out.” That about sums it up.
Bottom line? USAID was a bloated, unaccountable bureaucracy that needed to go. And now, thanks to Musk, Trump, and DOGE, it’s finally happening. Say goodbye to another deep-state money pit.
Yay! Enough said. I want my money back.