this agency is the center of 'regime change' activity;

Looks like some of it will be moved into the State Department.

Via: Independent:

Elon Musk has threatened to shut down America’s $50-billion-a-year foreign aid agency, USAID, calling it “criminal” and “beyond repair”.

The billionaire tech mogul said President Donald Trump had agreed with him to close the federal agency, which was founded by JFK and has the largest budget of its kind in the world.

USAID said its Washington D.C. headquarters were closed on Monday, and told staff to work from home on Tuesday. Several hundred employees reported being locked out of the agency’s computer systems.

“He agreed we should shut it down,” Musk said during a live discussion on X Spaces. “It became apparent that it’s not an apple with a worm in it. What we have is just a ball of worms. You’ve got to basically get rid of the whole thing. It’s beyond repair. We’re shutting it down.”

He branded USAID a “criminal organization”, without anything to back up the wild claim, adding: “Time for it to die”..........https://www.cryptogon.com/?p=71986