The world’s richest man, Elon Musk, said Monday that the U.S. Agency for International Development will be closed on President Donald Trump’s orders, after the prominent tycoon tasked with cutting government spending called the aid agency “evil.”
The world’s richest man, Elon Musk, said Monday that the U.S. Agency for International Development will be closed on President Donald Trump’s orders, after the prominent tycoon tasked with cutting government spending called the aid agency “evil.”
Absolutely was not above board, I’m afraid. Pretty sure they took a task force that was supposed to look for ways to streamline the IT services of the executive branch and handed it to Musk. But since members of that team didn’t need confirmation (given they had no authority to enact what’s going) they used that as their excuse that it’s legitimate.