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Over the weekend, Musk repeatedly denigrated USAID without offering evidence that those working there were corrupt. On X, he called the long-standing government agency “evil” and a “viper’s nest of radical-left marxists who hate America.”
“USAID is a criminal organization,” he added. “Time for it to die.”

Musk also had sharp words for the agency during an X Spaces live stream early Monday, when he was joined by Vivek Ramaswamy — former co-head of DOGE in its prior iteration, when it was an outside group empowered to make recommendations — and Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa).

“USAID is a ball of worms,” Musk said. “There is no apple.”
“It’s gotta go. It’s beyond repair,” he added.

Established in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy, USAID oversees a vast portfolio of programs designed to provide humanitarian relief, combat poverty, support global health and more. In 2023, it managed appropriations worth $40 billion, according to the Congressional Research Service. USAID is present in more than 100 countries from Ukraine to Peru. The agency’s staff numbers more than 10,000, the majority of whom are overseas.

By Sunday afternoon, USAID’s X account had been taken down, with a message saying the account “doesn’t exist.” The agency’s Instagram account was also taken offline.
USAID’s website has been down since Saturday. It was not immediately clear whether it was taken down because of the Trump administration’s focus on the agency or was down because of technical problems.

The purge of USAID personnel and freezing of foreign assistance have caused tension between Trump officials and congressional staff members, who have clashed over the value of key projects and the administration’s plans to fold USAID within the State Department, said U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

During those discussions, senior State Department official Peter Marocco was unable to provide answers on what aid was paused, including sensitive programs in Ukraine, which is fending off an invasion from Russia, the officials said. State Department spokespeople have also been unable to provide answers about what cases are exempt from Trump’s freeze.

The news of the top two security officials being put on leave was earlier reported by CNN. News of Hopson’s resignation was first reported by Reuters.
Late Sunday, Trump also implied that the ousters of USAID officials were justified, without citing any evidence.

“It’s been run by a bunch of radical lunatics. And we’re getting them out,” he told reporters after returning to Washington from spending the weekend in Palm Beach, Florida.

Top-ranking Democrats on Sunday demanded explanations for the DOGE officials’ actions and the sudden departure of the USAID security leaders.

Ten Democratic senators, including Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-New Hampshire), the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, warned Secretary of State Marco Rubio in a letter that any steps to dismantle USAID would need congressional approval and asked for an update on the weekend’s events.

Shaheen, in a separate message to The Washington Post, said she is “seeking immediate answers about any implications for our national security and … bringing a group of bipartisan Senators together on this as soon as the Senate comes back tomorrow.”

“Reports that individuals without appropriate clearance may have accessed classified USAID spaces as well as American citizens’ personal information are incredibly serious and unprecedented,” Shaheen said.

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Virginia), who sits on the same committee, said there is “no circumstance under which individuals without proper security clearances should be given access to our nation’s most sensitive secrets and systems.”

“This is exactly what China, Russia and Iran want,” Kaine said. “This potentially criminal incident must be investigated thoroughly and immediately. I commend the efforts of USAID staff who have shown time and again that their first and foremost priority is serving their country, not the whims of an unelected and corrupt billionaire.”

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Elon Musk says USAid is ‘beyond repair’ and he is working to shut it down

Billionaire says in social media talk that Donald Trump agrees the world’s largest single donor should be shut down
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Employees at the Department of Education have been placed on administrative leave for voluntarily attending a diversity training program prior to the 2nd Trump administration. Sheria Smith, president of American Federation of Government Employees Local 252, reported that as many as 55 employees have been put on leave, and that number is expected to grow.

Education Department employees have been informed by their union that anyone who attended the “Diversity Change Agent Program," a voluntary two-day seminar, may be placed on administrative leave based on Trump's new policy of dismantling DEI throughout the federal government.

Approximately 100 members of the department are said to have attended the seminar, which was not prohibited at the time. In fact, attendance at the seminar was encouraged by Betsy DeVos, Secretary of Education in Trump's first term. A diversity change agent in an unofficial role of someone trained to lead diversification awareness in an office.

As with other employees forced to go on leave by this White House, the Dept. of Ed. employees were informed that they were not being disciplined, and that pay and benefits would continue, but they were not welcome at the office, and access to their work email was disabled.

"It looks like they’re entrapping people, because they encouraged people to take these trainings...and are now maybe using these trainings as a basis to put them on administrative leave," Smith told NBC. She added that she believes the Trump administration is trying to get employees at the Dept. of Ed. to quit, ahead of his stated plan to shut the department down.

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Education Dept. workers put on leave after taking diversity training during Trump's 1st term, union says

A letter to the affected employees obtained by NBC News said they would continue to receive their full salaries and benefits and wouldn't be required to do any work-related tasks.
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Trump will cave and lie about the outcome this week. Market is dipping for the next buy. The grift rolls on.


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Employees at the Department of Education have been placed on administrative leave for voluntarily attending a diversity training program prior to the 2nd Trump administration. Sheria Smith, president of American Federation of Government Employees Local 252, reported that as many as 55 employees have been put on leave, and that number is expected to grow.

Education Department employees have been informed by their union that anyone who attended the “Diversity Change Agent Program," a voluntary two-day seminar, may be placed on administrative leave based on Trump's new policy of dismantling DEI throughout the federal government.

Approximately 100 members of the department are said to have attended the seminar, which was not prohibited at the time. In fact, attendance at the seminar was encouraged by Betsy DeVos, Secretary of Education in Trump's first term. A diversity change agent in an unofficial role of someone trained to lead diversification awareness in an office.

As with other employees forced to go on leave by this White House, the Dept. of Ed. employees were informed that they were not being disciplined, and that pay and benefits would continue, but they were not welcome at the office, and access to their work email was disabled.

"It looks like they’re entrapping people, because they encouraged people to take these trainings...and are now maybe using these trainings as a basis to put them on administrative leave," Smith told NBC. She added that she believes the Trump administration is trying to get employees at the Dept. of Ed. to quit, ahead of his stated plan to shut the department down.

www.nbcnews.com

Education Dept. workers put on leave after taking diversity training during Trump's 1st term, union says

A letter to the affected employees obtained by NBC News said they would continue to receive their full salaries and benefits and wouldn't be required to do any work-related tasks.
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This next 4 years will be a good time to be a lawyer. There will be so many lawsuits. Unbelievable. How is any of this good? I know the answer is "the enemy within" and full-on lies and ******** about idiots and morons and evil people running these departments as full-on crime syndicates. Still unbelievable so many people believe this ****.
 
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You're an easily misled rube. The Mexican president promised to do what they've been doing for years now. Which has done nothing to reduce the flow of fentanyl, by the way. The vast majority of Mexican fentanyl flows through legal ports of entry, smuggled by US citizens. Soldiers roaming the border doesn't do anything to stop this. Trump just got played hard, and so did you.
 
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You're an easily misled rube. The Mexican president promised to do what they've been doing for years now. Which has done nothing to reduce the flow of fentanyl, by the way. The vast majority of Mexican fentanyl flows through legal ports of entry, smuggled by US citizens. Soldiers roaming the border doesn't do anything to stop this. Trump just got played hard, and so did you.
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Dude, let go of your TDS. You're embarrassing yourself.
 
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Nah you got it all wrong. This was Trump engaged in 3D chess. His supporters are saying you can't listen to the words that come out of his mouth, you have to patiently and loyally stand by and then praise whatever random result happens at some undetermined point afterwards.

Like in this one he got Mexico's President to send 10,000 national guard to the border to stop the illegal importation of Fentanyl into the U.S..

So that's pretty much it! No more Fentanyl in the USA. Suck on that libs!
 
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Nah you got it all wrong. This was Trump engaged in 3D chess. His supporters are saying you can't listen to the words that come out of his mouth, you have to patiently and loyally stand by and then praise whatever random result happens at some undetermined point afterwards.

Like in this one he got Mexico's President to send 10,000 national guard to the border to stop the illegal importation of Fentanyl into the U.S..

So that's pretty much it! No more Fentanyl in the USA. Suck on that libs!
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Yeah, didn’t Biden get 15k troops? What a joke! MAGA is so desperate and gullible.

I thought tariffs were going to replace income tax tho? What happened?


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Zombie said:
You're an easily misled rube. The Mexican president promised to do what they've been doing for years now. Which has done nothing to reduce the flow of fentanyl, by the way. The vast majority of Mexican fentanyl flows through legal ports of entry, smuggled by US citizens. Soldiers roaming the border doesn't do anything to stop this. Trump just got played hard, and so did you.
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He's right. That's where I get mine.
 
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Nah you got it all wrong. This was Trump engaged in 3D chess. His supporters are saying you can't listen to the words that come out of his mouth, you have to patiently and loyally stand by and then praise whatever random result happens at some undetermined point afterwards.

Like in this one he got Mexico's President to send 10,000 national guard to the border to stop the illegal importation of Fentanyl into the U.S..

So that's pretty much it! No more Fentanyl in the USA. Suck on that libs!
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Ahem.....it is 5D Chutes and Ladders, tyvfm.
 
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You're an easily misled rube. The Mexican president promised to do what they've been doing for years now. Which has done nothing to reduce the flow of fentanyl, by the way. The vast majority of Mexican fentanyl flows through legal ports of entry, smuggled by US citizens. Soldiers roaming the border doesn't do anything to stop this. Trump just got played hard, and so did you.
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Here are facts:

  • Fentanyl smuggling is ultimately funded by U.S. consumers who pay for illicit opioids: nearly 99 percent of whom are U.S. citizens.
  • In 2021, U.S. citizens were 86.3 percent of convicted fentanyl drug traffickers—ten times greater than convictions of illegal immigrants for the same offense.
  • Over 90 percent of fentanyl seizures occur at legal crossing points or interior vehicle checkpoints, not on illegal migration routes, so U.S. citizens (who are subject to less scrutiny) when crossing legally are the best smugglers.
  • The location of smuggling makes sense because hard drugs at ports of entry are about 97 percent less likely to be stopped than are people crossing illegally between them.
  • Just 0.02 percent of the people arrested by Border Patrol for crossing illegally possessed any fentanyl whatsoever.
 
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