Trump Praises DOGE and Hints He Will Axe USAID

The president said he may publicly read off  ‘a list of 15 or 20’ examples of gross mismanagement of funds by USAID.

A USAID worker watches as relief supplies are unloaded at Manila's international airport on Oct. 13, 2009. Jay Directo/AFP via Getty Images

President Donald Trump on Feb. 4 praised the work of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), saying it and Elon Musk have uncovered massive amounts of fraud and misuse of federal funds.

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in particular has been a recent target of DOGE’s scrutiny and Trump’s ire. On Feb. 3 Musk said on X that he had “spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper.”