Musk says he's working to shut down USAID as employees told to stay home (opens in new tab)

Without a law that says USAID can be shut down or reorganized (or not funded) it seems that this is pretty much by definition entirely illegal regardless of one's opinions about USAID.

Wonders never cease: HN now supports the CIA regime change front that funded coups in dozens of countries, as well as laundered hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars to all sorts of shady special interest groups and political operatives domestically and abroad, and was responsible for funding illegal GoF research that led to COVID. Is this really the organization y'all want to carry water for?

> But President Trump was less definitive about shuttering the agency, telling reporters on Sunday night that USAID was run by "a bunch of radical lunatics".

> "We're getting them out," he said, "and then we'll make a decision."

This is pretty wild considering USAID is an extension of the state department, sits with the National Security Council, and closely works with the CIA. However you feel about USAID, the point of the org is to prevent humanitarian crises from becoming more expensive security issues.

If the argument is that the USAID is too left leaning, oh boy I can't imagine what they have in store.