Why do Donald Trump and Elon Musk want to shutdown USAID?
Trump is a long-term critic of overseas spending and has said it is not a valuable use of taxpayer money. He has singled out USAID for particularly strong criticism.
The White House has published a list of USAID projects which it said were evidence of “waste and abuse”, including a grant of $1.5m to an LGBTQ group in Serbia, $2.5m for electric vehicles in Vietnam and $6m for tourism in Egypt.
Critics have disputed how the administration has framed this spending. For example, the Egypt project – which began in 2019 under Trump – lists water, education and transportation aid projects for the North Sinai region.
After returning to office, Trump signed an executive order that put almost all international spending on pause for a 90-day review.
Waivers were later issued for humanitarian programmes, but the announcement upended the world of international development and disrupted services.
White House officials and Musk have falsely shared information regarding some of USAID’s contracts.
Musk, for example, shared a false video promoting a debunked claim that USAID paid for Hollywood stars to visit Ukraine.
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