USAID’s Shutdown: Trump and Musk’s Nuclear Strike on the Deep State

The main foreign aid agency, whose budget is bigger than the CIA and the State Department combined, has served for decades as a global Democrat slush fund.

Feb 05, 2025

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Trump and Musk slam USAID, agreeing that the department should be shut down

by Rod D. Martin
February 5, 2025

President Trump and Elon Musk just took a wrecking ball to one of the Deep State’s most entrenched piggy banks: USAID. For decades, this so-called “aid” agency — with a budget larger than the CIA and the State Department combined — has been little more than a money laundering operation for the global left, using American taxpayer dollars to fund radical activism, prop up corrupt regimes, and interfere in U.S. elections.

Now, thanks to Trump and Musk, that game is over. The DOGE team shut down the agency this week. Here’s its website as of late last night:

The Rod Martin Report

USAID’s Shutdown: Trump and Musk’s Nuclear Strike on the Deep State

The main foreign aid agency, whose budget is bigger than the CIA and the State Department combined, has served for decades as a global Democrat slush fund.

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