Elon Musk called USAID a criminal organization that should “die.” Proponents say it’s a key arm of U.S. influence that, if destroyed, “cannot be easily rebuilt.”
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Repeating a claim without any fact check only helps the lie spread. In short, this post and headline perpetuates the attack on the organization without even mentioning the illegal activities Musk and his team are conducting.
People will die if USAID ends. Why are none of the press telling this truth. Children around the world will die and you all just talk of influence and money and ignore starvation, suffering and pain. Yes, such Christian values shown by trump and republicans. Shame on all of you!
It is.
Spend a few hours and look where the "aid" goes...
You'll start to see ..trillions.. yes..trillions in wasted spending
Spend a few hours.. or..you can do what you're going to do..just read the headline and bash and condem trump and musk..because legacy media tells you to
Hey Pro-Palestinian protesters! You see this? All those poor defenseless women and children suffering right now....yeah they ain't gonna get any more help from the US right now BECAUSE OF DONALD TRUMP. You couldn't bring yourself to vote for Kamala, well...how you feeling now???
Why is this headline written like this is a he said she said academic question and not history’s largest intelligence leak by a foreign operative with no loyalty to the US or its citizens?
So no mention of the Coup he committed then, WP? Grow some balls and call this like it is: a Coup and dismantling of the US government. You’re really going to play games when you should be showing urgency?
And yet the so-called Christians that form the MAGA base will overlook the fact that denying help to those in need is antithetical to the core of what the J-Man tried to teach.
How can GOP be so stupid. The aid is a tool to gain influence in other countries if the US pulls out another country will step up most likely China or Russia.
It is not for one man to decide whether or not a Congressionally authorized agency lives or dies. This is, for now, still a democracy. Whether it continues as one remains to be seen.
Elon Musk will share your social security data. Just repeating Trump’s mentality. Through glue to the wall because it will stick with people dumb enough to believe it
It should if it doesn’t. Previous employee data is likely included.
In fact, I’d think that previous employees without a current federal position are the best candidates to sue because they can’t be fired as retribution for being named plaintiff.
Don’t forget that if the US cuts aid, many countries will seek aid elsewhere- like from China and Russia. Not only are human lives at risk, the balance of power is also at risk.
Well, if Musk said it, then it must be the TRUTH!!! With Trump's help, Bezos and Musk are on their way to being TRILLIONAIRES. WaPo needs to concentrate on IMPORTANT stuff like that!
Musk has never built anything and is not a government official or employee.
I think we need to all send him tuck tape for his big nazi mouth. #ducktape
Musk & Trump are hellbent on torching key parts of the US Government with no legal authority. It's a coup from the inside, 1000 times worse than Jan 6. Calm, measured, sternly worded responses from Democratic leaders are useless. They need to fucking LEAD, rally the American people and fight this.
I cannot tell you how much I despise your publication now. You are equally complicit. You and Jeff Bezos…this neutral Elon says this and others say that what are your thoughts crap! When they destroy everything you are equally to blame.
A bunch of gangsters have taken over the USA. Scott Bessent, confirmed by Congress as Sec of the Treasury gave the keys to the $6 trillion payment system to Musk & 6 unvetted IT guys ages 19-24.
It would be nice to note that the statement that USAID is a “criminal organization” is deranged lunacy from a man clearly operating under narcissistic delusion.
Why are you not responding to the fact he has illegally taken control of everyone’s personal data, transactions? Fictitious department, made up job, absolutely the highest and most heinous act ever on US soil!!
Your positioning of what Elon Musk said gives his lies equal weight to the truth. I see framing like this all the time now from your rag and it makes me very happy about my decision to cancel my subscription. I'd encourage any other WaPo subscribers to similarly cancel their subscriptions.
I don't think you read the article. I think you saw a headline and rushed to pop off.
Question though Senor Revolutionary. Given that many of the best journalists in the country work at WaPo, is your plan to just shut REAL reporters out so you can be spoon fed dogma and have your fee fees served?
Got the names now, At least we know who to Shun Persona Non Grata, Deny Them Food, Shelter, Fire and Water like the Romans did. Do not sell goods and services nor buy such from these treasonous cretins. Everyone share this
The guy that makes his Fortune on gov contracts and dodge paying taxes on them, gets to close programs that help poor people, because there is deficit which he helped to create. 😂😂😂😂
Elon Musk said that the Washington Post is a ring of Satan-worshipping pedophiles who should be rounded into labor camps. Its defenders say it's "a newspaper."
Trump is no longer in control of the WH; Musk has taken over. He was not elected, is not the head of an official agency, did not go through a Congressional confirmation, does not have security clearance.
USAID represents cultural and benevolent influence (health, education etc.). If the US doesn't want to reap the benefits of investing in some good will I'm sure China or someone else will.
They both are insane and it's a couple, but yey no security dept or military has made any move to stop them. Guys what do you have to loose, since he is already trying to fire and possibly imprison all of you. He confirmed he has sanctioned Musks actions.
Why are we even giving this man a voice?? The more air time and column inches he gets, the more power he'll grab. Focus on the conflict of interest with him controlling the Treasury Payment System and him having billions of dollars of govt contracts.
Trump is dismantling levers with which the US has projected influence across the world…a necessity for a superpower to successfully maintain impact on global order.
China will quickly step in.
This is MAGA actually ‘making America weak’. GOP led Congress is disgracefully MIA as check & balance.
This IS a coup. An unelected billionaire oligarch hijacking funds is a hostile takeover of democracy. Citizens United paved the way for this corruption. We don’t need reminders—we need action. Overturn Citizens United. Get #moneyoutofpolitics. #RejectProject2025. #thefightbeginsnow.
This is the worst thing he has ever done. USAID does more good in this world in one day than Musk and Trump and their evil cohorts will do in their lives.
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Spend a few hours and look where the "aid" goes...
You'll start to see ..trillions.. yes..trillions in wasted spending
Spend a few hours.. or..you can do what you're going to do..just read the headline and bash and condem trump and musk..because legacy media tells you to
He’s not.
Jobs exist that don’t require betraying your country.
https://www.indeed.com/
IT LITERALLY IS
AND YOUR TEPID WATER RESPONSE IS NEARLY CRIMINAL.
That Elon Musk, a billionaire, is spearheading this is morally reprehensible.
The richest man in the word screwing over some of the poorest people on the planet.
Is that what you really want to be?
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In fact, I’d think that previous employees without a current federal position are the best candidates to sue because they can’t be fired as retribution for being named plaintiff.
I think we need to all send him tuck tape for his big nazi mouth. #ducktape
Mayday Mayday
A bunch of gangsters have taken over the USA. Scott Bessent, confirmed by Congress as Sec of the Treasury gave the keys to the $6 trillion payment system to Musk & 6 unvetted IT guys ages 19-24.
Civil service employees are LOCKED OUT
This is a COUP.
Well now is the time. Americans are outraged about the COUP happening at OPM & Treasury.
Show some backbone. Make some noise. Take lessons from Canada. They are cancelling Starlink.
Your failure to report what is going on will be remembered years from now.
Democracy isn’t dying in darkness. It’s being murdered in broad daylight.
You never reported all of Trump’s promises as issues because you wanted him to win.
Congrats, assholes.
Owned by one oligarch, subservient to another.
Useless, pointless enablers of the end of the Republic.
Question though Senor Revolutionary. Given that many of the best journalists in the country work at WaPo, is your plan to just shut REAL reporters out so you can be spoon fed dogma and have your fee fees served?
The headline and article frame the issue as a policy dispute between Trump/Elon and Chuck Schumer.
What Elon has done wrt USAID is illegal, period. But WaPo only quoted Schumer as saying as much.
WaPo is misleading it's readers with their framing.
"Experts say restricting access to oxygen is deadly, but proponents claim health benefits."
If it wasn't MAGA, it'd sound like Russian influence ... 😜 🤔
China will quickly step in.
This is MAGA actually ‘making America weak’. GOP led Congress is disgracefully MIA as check & balance.