Please, it’s cost was $19B/year. We spend $1T/year on military spending, $1T/year on interest payments on $40T in debt, and $100B+ (so far!) on the Iran war.
Musk cut it through DOGE because he’s racist, not for cost efficiency.
He is after all at this moment talking on Twitter about how he regularly tells people who say they are Jewish that they aren't Jewish and if they don't have DNA tests to prove it he doesn't believe them.
Back to USAID: Musk, a prominent US defence contractor also gave as one of his reasons to cut USAID that it was a front organisation for the American Intellegence community.
So just before a big war he threw a curveball at long running intelligence operations. In his own, public, on-the-record comments. The same man who provides Grok AI to the Pentagon for use on classified info.
He also, when challenged about the deaths, claimed that he hadn't cut any funding for that stuff and that it was all still done by a different department so there was "zero deaths".
Which is a lie, but if you believe his lie, then a) he didn't save any money b) unless you count the stuff that was really the American Intellegence operations.
On the other hand if you don't believe his lie then all the dweebs online defending all the deaths as worth it to cut the deficit are defending a man who doesn't even bother to make that same argument.
If you have a robust resource I can cite in the future that captures all of "weirdness" of Musk, please suggest and I will bookmark for efficiency and completeness. Below is what I rely on today, but more complete resources are always welcome.
Your point about interest payments on the debt doesn't seem to support the assertion that we should go into more debt. It's not like we have a choice about continuing to make interest payments, which makes it a false comparison.
Regardless, I'm pretty sure the definition of murder doesn't include defunding programs with the knowledge that doing so will lead some people to die. If that were the case, then Joe Biden "murdered" the Americans who were killed by the illegal immigrants whom he willingly let across the border (by not funding ICE or allowing them to do their job). It was obvious that by letting in millions of them, some of them would end up killing people. Would you say he is a murderer too?
Going to a war with Iran that cannot be won for Israel was a choice, yeah? There ya go, $100B in savings, no DOGE theatrics required.
It is apparent (hah) you have a rigid conservative mental model, you’re not going to change your mind based on the data. It’s fine. The data and facts stand regardless of talking points socialized.
(native US citizens commit crimes at a higher rate than immigrants, here legally or not)
Going to war with Iran seems like a dumb idea, but I don't remember Elon being involved in that.
It doesn't really matter whether native born Americans commit crimes at higher rates than illegal immigrants. We shouldn't have any illegal immigrants here, so every additional crime is one we should not have had to endure. Also, if you want to look at how crime breaks down demographically in America, there are some striking patterns that might not fit your preferred narrative.
Musk cut it through DOGE because he’s racist, not for cost efficiency.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/12/elon-musk...
https://usafacts.org/explainers/what-does-the-us-government-...
> The US Agency for International Development accounted for 0.3% of all federal spending in FY 2025.
Don’t spend those savings all in one place lol (~7 days of interest payments)