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Heldersmelon Musk. USAID was started in 1960 to administer assistance from the United States to countries in need. Photo: Matt Rourke / AP
Elon Musk wants to boom again.
Over one night, the aid body’s website closed down and employees are now denied entry to the office.
“They are worms,” Musk writes on X.
Donald Trump has given Elon Musk the task of losing the US state apparatus and making it more effective.
Under the title “Special government employee” he controls “Dogge”. Infoclose “Dogge”. “Dogge” stands for the Department of Government Efficiency and shares names with a crawl oval which in turn is named after an internet phenomenon with a Japanese dog. Which is a department whose goal is to fight against bureaucracy, cut in expenses, abolish unnecessary rules and structure federal authorities, CNN reports.
On Monday, Musk had a live broadcast on X. Then the Tesla owner announced that he intends to shut down the USAID INIFOCLOSEUSAIDUSIDUSAID is an aid body that has a budget of the equivalent of just over SEK 480 billion. The money goes to humanitarian aid in over 100 countries. – And that Trump supports the decision.
– It is obvious that USAID is not just an apple with a mask in – but there are lots of worms. Unable to save or repair. We have to shut it down, Musk said.
Then the aid body’s office was shut down and the USAID’s account on X disappeared without a trace. The peronsal force, which consists of about 600 people, was also denied entered the office building on Monday, reports the AP.
The closure of closure has been met by protests outside the office in Washington DC.
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Full -screen Donald Trump. A large part of USAID’s budget goes to conduct health programs, such as vaccination of polio. Photo: Alex Brandon / AP
“Time to die”
The tours around USAID’s future started this weekend.
Then the aid body refused to hand over security -classified documents to Musk’s Dogge. Which Musk raged over on X.
“USAID is a criminal organization, it’s time for it to die,” he wrote on Saturday.
Only the following day that Trump announced that the decision to close down USAID was not necessarily carved in stone.
– USAID has been driven by a bunch of radical madmen. And we’re about to throw them out. Only after that can we decide on the future of the authority, the president said according to US media.
During a press conference in the Oval Room in the White House, Trump developed how he looks at the organization’s future.
– Elon does nothing without approving it. Sometimes he will have my approval and other times not. But he is a man with a good instinct.
The turn – he takes over
But on Monday, new announcements came about the future of the aid authority.
Then US Foreign Minister Marco Rubio announced that he is temporarily taking over as head of USAID.
– Everything that USAID does must be in line with our national interest and US foreign policy.
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HELSKRUSTAID has around 10,000 employees worldwide. Photo: Ben Curtis / AP
A message of joy according to Musk.
“Yes! Marco Rubio is fantastic, ”he writes at X.
Sources at CNN now state that USAID will be fought together with the US Foreign Ministry.
This will mean extensive cuts in the workforce. However, it will remain a humanitarian organ.
Swedish Minister: Global consequences
Swedish Minister of Development Benjamin Dousa (M) tells TT that the closure of USAID could have major consequences globally.
– The United States is the world’s single largest donor of development assistance and a closure of USAID would of course have very major consequences globally.
As Swedish Sida collaborates with USAID, the authority will now investigate what a closure could have for consequences.
– Sida is currently inventing if there are some individual projects that are at risk of being squeezed because of this line of decisions from the US administration, says Dousa to TT.