Elon Musk says he and Trump are shutting down USAID

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Tech billionaire Elon Musk said Monday that he and President Donald Trump were in the process of shutting down the U.S. Agency for International Development, escalating their war on the federal bureaucracy and defying the constitutional power of Congress to determine how money is spent...

“We’re shutting it down,” he said. At another point, he said "we’re in the process” of “shutting down USAID.”   Musk did not say what legal authority he believed the White House has to shut down a federal agency without congressional approval, or how quickly the administration planned to act. 

He said the idea had “the full support of the president” and that he had spoken with Trump on the matter several times.   

“With regard to the USAID stuff, I went over [it] with him in detail, and he agreed that we should shut it down,” he said. “I actually checked with him a few times [and] said, ‘Are you sure?’” he said. He said that Trump responded, “Yes.”   

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Musk’s announcement early Monday...

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