The world’s richest man is shutting down the agency devoted to helping the world’s poorest. You can’t make this up.

The budget of the US Agency for International Development is about 10% of Musk’s net worth.

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Please call your senators and congress members to tell them this must stop!

(5/6) Possessing even the slightest amount of enlightened self interest would lead a sane person to realize that cutting aid will likely increase instability, explode security risks, and quite possibly lead to higher migration.
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(3) remarkably foolish: China (and Russia) will likely fill in the gaps left by the US retreat. Is that really want we want?
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(3/6) (2) 100% illegal: Congress approves money and it must be spent as directed. Period. Moreover, Musk is not elected. He does not get to direct US government spending.
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(2/6) I’d be the first to say that the agency could be more efficient—But it should not be unilaterally closed!

USAID’s closure is:
(1) intensely cruel: millions of people around the world depend on food, medicine and support.
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(1/4) We need to stop the closure of the US Agency for International development, where I worked for a few years.

Trump and Musk have closed USAID over the weekend with essentially no warning, not allowing workers to enter the office or access computers. It has a budget of $50B and 10,000 employees