Since coming into power , Elon Musk ’s Department of Government Efficiency has barraged USAID , the international help agency that dispenses solid food and supplies to state all over the world . It is potential that the government agency will soon be shutter and could be subsumed into the U.S. State Department . Now , new reporting show USAID was actually investigate equipment from one of Musk ’s companies at the clock time that he attacked the office .
The LeverreportedTuesday that USAID ’s examiner full general was in the process of investigating its own public - individual partnership between Musk ’s Starlink and the Ukrainian government at the time that the billionaire ’s DOGE crippled the agency . publically available selective information about that probe is still on-line . Anannouncementfrom last May take : “ The USAID Office of Inspector General , Inspections and Evaluations Division , is initiating an inspection of USAID ’s supervising of Starlink satellite terminals provided to the Government of Ukraine . Our objectives are to determine how ( 1 ) the Government of Ukraine used the USAID - provided Starlink terminal , and ( 2 ) USAID supervise the Government of Ukraine ’s use of USAID - provided Starlink terminals . ”
Musk has called the agency “ malevolent ” and a “ criminal organization , ” though the fact that USAID was investigating the Starlink activities may suggest ulterior motivations for the billionaire ’s vitriol . It ’s unclear what the Starlink probe ’s position is right now .
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Musk ’s “ criminal ” input are funny since it more and more wait like Musk ’s DOGE natural action represent breach of federal law and , therefore , may be construed as rearing criminal behavior . On Tuesday , the Washington Postnoted thatofficials at half a 12 federal representation had parent concern over whether what Musk was doing was illegal . Those agencies include the “ Treasury Department , the Education Department , the U.S. Agency for International Development , the General Services Administration , the Office of Personnel Management , the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the White House budget office , among others , ” the newspaper publisher reported .
DOGE also suffered its second causa this hebdomad , when union groups that protect federal workerssued the organizationover its highjacking of the Treasury figurer system . The judicial proceeding say that DOGE may beviolating a Union privacy lawby allowing Musk ’s stooges to get at certain systems .
DOGE has been staffed bya clump of kidsin their 20s who are now engage in unprecedented , legally risky workplace . As far as I can tell , it ’s basically Elon being fall out around bya crew of “ Gregs . ”If the bottom ever falls out of this thing and DOGE run into effectual trouble , it ’s easy to imagine that Musk ’s US Army of anti - bureaucracy grunts might be considered spendable .
USAID has a recollective , controversial history and hasoften been accusedby foreign regime of being a front for the CIA . While the office dispenses tending to foreign countries , it has often been mat inscandals . It barely represents , as Sean Hannityrecently put it,“radical DEI , woke , transgender , you know , leftist , Green New Deal madness . ” turn over its history , it ’s obvious that Musk ’s battle against the federal agency will play well with voters who seriously consider Trump need to “ destroy the deep land . ” That said , Elon Musk literallyworks for the deep land , so I do n’t know how his being in cathexis is any proficient .
This story has been update to clarify the nature of USAID ’s probe .
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