‘We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper,’ Elon Musk said.
Tesla CEO and X owner Elon Musk listens as President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with House Republicans at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Washington on Nov. 13, 2024. Allison Robbert/Reuters
Elon Musk said on Feb. 3 that President Donald Trump told him the federal government should shut down a federal agency called the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
“He agreed we should shut it down,” Musk said during a live session on the social media platform X, after saying he had spoken with Trump about the agency.
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