Musk brands USAID 'criminal', Trump calls its leaders 'radical lunatics'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : " - 'Unelected billionaire' - The X session -- attended by businessman Vivek Ramaswamy and two Republican senators -- was on Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), tasked with slashing federal spending.
46% : There have been reports Trump wants to roll USAID into the State Department.
33% : During a talk hosted on his X platform at midnight Washington time (0500 GMT Monday), Musk said Trump "agreed that we should shut it (USAID) down.
23% : and then we'll make a decision (on its future)," Trump said Sunday without elaborating.
23% : " Trump initially froze all aid spending for three months.
21% : "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."
17% : Elon Musk attacked the US Agency for International Development, calling it a "criminal organization" on Sunday, as President Donald Trump claimed the agency was "run by radical lunatics" and said he was considering its future.

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