5Photo© hindustantimes.comMusk Says Trump 'Shutting Down' US Aid Agency
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Elon Musk, the world's richest person and President Donald Trump's controversial close advisor, said Monday the giant USAID humanitarian agency will be "shutting down" as part of his radical -- and critics say unconstitutional -- drive to shrink the US government.
Employees at the US Agency for International Development, which runs aid programs in about 120 countries, were instructed by email not to go to their offices Monday. Some 600 staffers found themselves locked out of their computer systems, ABC News reported.
Musk called USAID "a criminal organization" and declared "you've got to basically get rid of the whole thing."
“ I'm the acting director of USAID,
Marco Rubio,
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“ He's a big cost-cutter. Sometimes we won't agree with it and we'll not go where he wants to go. But I think he's doing a great job.
Donald Trump,
Musk says USAID to be shut down in government cost-cutting drive