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The executive order directs all department and agency heads to review all funding provided to NGOs to ensure that their future funding decisions are in line with U.S. interests and the priorities of the Republican administration.
The move comes hours after the federal government announced that it will retain only 294 workers out of more than 10,000 that the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has around the world.
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Elon. Stop the Steal. Do it well. Mr. Elon. Good luck. Drain the Swamp.
Elon Musk dunks on Sen Chuck Schumer, declaring 'Hysterical reactions' demonstrate DOGE's importance
"An unelected shadow government is conducting a hostile takeover of the federal government," a post on Sen. Schumer's @SenSchumer X account reads, echoing remarks the lawmaker made during a press conference.
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The newly established Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has wasted no time in cutting down bloated federal spending, terminating 85 Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA)-related contracts worth approximately $1 billion across multiple federal agencies in just the first 10 days of its operation.
In a post on X, the Department of Government Efficiency confirmed the massive rollback, which spans 24 federal agencies, including the Department of Education, Department of Labor, Treasury, Defense, USDA, Homeland Security, and the Environmental Protection Agency.
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Trending World by The Epoch Times
Republicans on the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday voted to block Democrats’ attempt to subpoena SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk to testify before Congress amid growing scrutiny over his role as an unelected “special government employee” leading the U.S. DOGE Service and its impacts on federal agencies.
Minutes after the committee’s hearing on “Reducing Waste in Government” began, several Democrats sparred with Chairman Rep. James Comer (R-K.Y.) over calling Musk to testify. After a shouting match ensued, the committee voted 20–19 against a motion that would compel Musk to appear before the committee on his roles in the Trump administration.
After the motion failed, Comer chastised his colleagues on the left and said they could have called Musk as a minority witness instead of a college professor, triggering a response from committee ranking member Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.).
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Jim Heath
Musk’s Young Guns Are Gutting Programs That Millions Depend On
Elon Musk has assembled a crew of six baby-faced men—ranging in age from 19 to 25—with little-to-no government experience to help him dismantle long-standing federal programs that millions of Americans rely on.
After months of campaigning alongside Donald Trump, Musk was appointed head of the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a rapidly growing agency tasked with slashing costs across federal programs. Now, according to information compiled by the Daily Mail, Musk’s handpicked team has been granted high-level security clearance, full access to government IT systems, and influence over sweeping budget cuts.
Leading the pack is Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old Northeastern University student who spent last summer interning at Musk’s Neuralink. WIRED reports he has already been labeled an "expert" within DOGE, though his exact role remains vague. Three of Musk’s recruits are still in college, including Akash Bobba, 21, a student at Berkeley who previously interned at Meta and Peter Thiel’s Palantir, and Ethan Shaotran, 22, a Harvard senior whose startup, Energize AI, was funded by OpenAI in 2023. Joining them is 23-year-old Luke Farritor, a former SpaceX intern who dropped out of the University of Nebraska to work for Silicon Valley entrepreneur Nat Friedman.
Gavin Kliger, 25, appears to be the most powerful of the group. While not publicly identified as having top-level clearance, Kliger has already made waves. According to The New York Times, he sent a department-wide email instructing all USAID employees not to return to headquarters on Monday. Within hours, up to 600 staffers reported being locked out of their work computer systems—eerily similar to the mass layoffs at Twitter after Musk’s takeover. Matt Hopson, Trump’s newly appointed chief of staff at USAID, resigned immediately after. Kliger later posted a paywalled Substack article titled "Why DOGE. Why I Gave Up a Seven-Figure Salary to Save America."
DOGE’s power is expanding fast. Musk’s agency recently secured access to restricted parts of the General Services Administration, meaning his team now has entry to databases containing Social Security numbers, addresses, and other sensitive federal records. The group operates out of DOGE’s top floor with A-suite clearance, allowing them full access to physical spaces and IT systems.
Employees within DOGE have reported bizarre encounters with Coristine, who has allegedly been sitting in on meetings, making staff go over their code, and asking them to justify their jobs—despite his age and lack of credentials. His father, Charles Coristine, is the CEO of the organic popcorn company LesserEvil. Until recently, Edward Coristine reportedly used the social media handle @EdwardBigBaller.
Meanwhile, Gautier Cole Killian, an engineer from Jump Trading, has joined DOGE as a "volunteer," though his exact role is unclear.
The most extraordinary part? Musk doesn’t hold elected office, yet on Monday, the White House formally appointed him a "special government employee," giving him sweeping authority over federal operations. With a 19-year-old "expert" auditing government workers and a squad of Silicon Valley protégés overseeing entire federal agencies, Musk’s grip on Washington is tightening—and the consequences are just beginning.
Compiled from this article: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Elon-musk-doge-college...
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President Trump’s administration is taking another major step in cutting down bloated government bureaucracy, this time targeting the scandal-ridden U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
According to an agency official and a source familiar with the situation, nearly all Washington-based USAID staff will be placed on leave—marking the most significant shake-up in the agency’s history, far-left Politico reported.
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President Trump on Elon Musk: "He's got access only to letting people go that he thinks are no good if we agree with him and it's only if we agree with him. He's a very talented guy from the standpoint of management and costs."
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Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is proving that age is just a number when it comes to redefining federal bureaucracy. Under Musk’s leadership, a group of young prodigies, aged between 19 and 24, are at the helm of a transformative project aiming to slash federal spending.
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Trump on USAID: "It has been run by a bunch of RADICAL LUNATICS and we're getting them out ... and then we'll make a decision"
QUESTION: Can you tell us about USAID, what’s happening at USAID and how that affects (inaudible)?
SECRETARY RUBIO: Well, look, I mean, my frustration with USAID goes back to my time in Congress. It’s a completely unresponsive agency. It’s supposed to respond to policy directives at the State Department and it refuses to do so. So the functions of USAID – there are a lot of functions of USAID that are going to continue, that are going to be part of American foreign policy, but it has to be aligned with American foreign policy.
I said very clearly when we – during my confirmation hearing that every dollar we spend and every program we fund, that will be aligned with the national interests of the United States. And USAID has a history of sort of ignoring that and deciding that they’re somehow a global charity separate from the national interest. These are taxpayer dollars.
And so I’m very troubled by these reports that they have been unwilling to cooperate with people who are asking simple questions about what does this program do, who gets the money, who are our contractors, who’s funded. And that sort of level of insubordination makes it impossible to conduct the sort of mature and serious review that I think foreign aid writ large should have. We’re spending taxpayer money here. These are not donor dollars. These are taxpayer dollars, and we owe the American people the – the assurances that every dollar we are spending abroad is being spent on something that furthers our national interest. And so far, a lot of the people that work at USAID have just simply refused to cooperate.
QUESTION: Are you currently in charge of USAID? Are you acting —
SECRETARY RUBIO: I’m the acting director of USAID. I’ve delegated that authority to someone, but I stay in touch with him. And again, our goal was to go in and align our foreign aid to the national interest. But if you go to mission after mission and embassy after embassy around the world, you will often find that in many cases USAID is involved in programs that run counter to what we’re trying to do in our national strategy with that country or with that region. That cannot continue.
USAID is not an independent nongovernmental entity. It is an entity that spends taxpayer dollars and it needs to spend it, as the statute says, in alignment with the policy directives that they get from the Secretary of State, the National Security Council, and the President. And it’s been 20 or 30 years where people have tried to reform it, and it refuses to reform, it refuses to cooperate. When we were in Congress we couldn’t even get answers to basic questions about programs. That will not continue. That’s not going to continue.
QUESTION: Elon Musk just called it a terrorist organization. Do you believe that?
SECRETARY RUBIO: I’ve articulated to you my challenges with it, and they go back to my time in Congress. We would ask them questions – who does this program fund, who gets the money – we won’t tell you, don’t need to tell you, we’re apolitical. Look, American foreign policy isn’t apolitical. American foreign policy is to – is to further the interests of the United States. If someone wants to spend apolitical dollars, they should spend private dollars. Go start a charity and you can fund anyone you want. But if you’re going to spend taxpayer money, then you need to spend it in furtherance of the national interests of the United States. That’s exactly what I said at my confirmation hearing. And this is not my frustration. This frustration has existed now for almost a quarter century and two – multiple administrations that have gone through this challenge. It’s going to stop and it’s going to end.
Trump on USAID: RADICAL LUNATICS, getting them out; Rubio: foreign aid policy isn’t apolitical
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Elon Musk@elonmusk
Reducing the federal deficit from $2T to $1T in FY2026 requires cutting an average of ~$4B/day in projected 2026 spending from now to Sept 30.
That would still result in a ~$1T deficit, but economic growth should be able to match that number, which would mean no inflation in 2026
I am cautiously optimistic that we will reach the $4B/day FY2026 reduction this weekend
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The Trump Admin put two top leaders at the US Agency for
International Development on leave after they refused to give Elon
Musk’s DOGE classified documents.
Musk’s DOGE got the classified materials on Saturday after the two officials initially withheld the materials.
The two officials, John Vorhees and Deputy Brian McGill, claimed the
DOGE employees did not have the security clearance to obtain the
classified materials.
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Comments:
It
is so upsetting that our tax dollars were being used all over the world
to spread moral filth! They are not happy looking like clowns in front
of the American people; they want the entire world to look as stupid on
our dollar. Yet, all these clowns are yelling and screaming against the ones that are opening our eyes. Godless creatures!
Unfortunately,
too many people are getting half the story about USAID. They are
saying Musk shut it down. Trump told him to do that after the heads of
USAID were not only uncooperative, but insubordinate to the DOGE people
who were acting on the Presidents behalf.
It’s totally upsetting they don’t care about the country the people, just to get rich all of them they destroyed everything
Thank
you! Elon Musk & your team at Doge for exposing both international
& Domestic rats in the cheese. The days of liberal slush funds and
kick backs will soon be over. They are caught and they are freaking out!
They look so pathetic and juvenile on t.v.
they have no clue what the constitutional power the excecutive branch
has given the potus. Elon and anybody else not elected work for and at
the pleasure of the president with in the guide lines of the
constitution. Wait till Elons team audits dept. Of Education &
D.O.D. the shit will really hit the fan! When the American people are
informed of the criminal and embezzling deeds that have been benefits
going to these corrupt politicians & lobbiest that is are tax money.
They all need to be voted out of our government this next election
cycle. Another Red wave is what we need. This time I highly recommend
California's, Illinois, N.J and N.Y. voters get on board, and end the
corruption in your states take back your tax dollars and tell these
liberal YOUR FIRED!!!
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