DOGE sets sights on $50BN dept. Musk claims is 'criminal organization'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : The system is run by non-political career civil servants and controls trillions of dollars of government funds that go to programs like Social Security and Medicare.
52% : Its funding goes to programs on everything from women's health in conflict zones to access to clean water, HIV/AIDS treatments, energy security and anti-corruption work.
47% : The assault on the US Agency for International Development (USAID) marks a significant new front Musk's unprecedented power grab to upend federal departments and eliminate what the he considers wasteful spending.
47% : Trump ordered a freeze on almost all U.S. foreign aid for three months, saying his administration will review spending to ensure money is distributed in line with his 'America First' foreign policy.
42% : 'Trump and Musk are recklessly and illegally dismantling USAID, an essential national security agency that saves lives, advances U.S. interests, and promotes peace,' Booker wrote.
32% : Trump also attached the agency on Sunday, claiming it has 'been run by a bunch of radical lunatics, and we're getting them out... and then we'll make a decision (on its future).'
28% : And he's very much into cutting the budget of our federal government,' Trump said.
27% : He added: 'There's no excusing it - it's a shameful, stupid, self-own without excuse and a harbinger of even worse to come.' There have been reports Trump wants to roll USAID into the State Department.
20% : 'The people elected Donald Trump to be President -- not Elon Musk,' Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wrote on X. 'Having an unelected billionaire, with his own foreign debts and motives, raiding US classified information is a grave threat to national security,' she said.
20% : Asked on CBS' 'Face the Nation' if congressional approval was needed or whether Trump could act unilaterally, Mast did not answer.
11% : Steven Cheung, a senior aide to Trump, posted on X that the PBS report was 'legitimately FAKE NEWS.
10% : Elon Musk attacked the embattled government agency tasked with humanitarian relief overseas on Sunday, calling it a 'criminal organization' after Donald Trump claimed it was 'run by radical lunatics.'

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