SAO PAULO, SP (UOL/FOLHAPRESS) – US President Donald Trump said Elon Musk cannot make decisions without approval of the rest of the government. This Monday (3), the government’s billionaire said he would close USAID, the US welfare agency abroad.
Trump stressed that Musk can signal problems with spending, but cannot freeze payments on his own. “He is only allowed to let go people he thinks are not good if we agree with him.” The president also pointed out that Musk found “tremendous waste” on government spending.
Elon cannot do and will do nothing without our approval, and we will give it approval when appropriate. When not appropriate, we will not do. “He reports. When we think there is a conflict or a problem, we will not let it get close, ”said Donald Trump, president of the United States.
Musk commands Doge, department responsible for cutting spending. Trump justified the creation of the group to “dismantle government bureaucracy, cut excessive regulations, cut unnecessary expenses and restructure federal agencies.” Despite the name, the agency does not operate as an agency within the federal government, but as an external commission.
Billionaire had previously said that Donald Trump approved the closure of the agency. At dawn on Monday, the X owner said in a chat that happened in the X SPACES that questioned Trump several times about the future of USAID. “I passed on everything with the president in detail and he agreed that we should end it.” The businessman also qualified Usaid as a “worm nest”.
Without presenting evidence, Trump told CNN that USAID is administered “by a radical lunatics.” The US president also promised that these employees would be taken from the government.
The USAID website has been down since dawn on Monday. The X page has also been deactivated.
“An agency’s abrupt collapse would put the rights of millions of people around the world at higher risk as a result,” Paul O’Brien, executive director of Amnesty International, told a press statement. “What dismantling USAID does not make anyone safer or more prosperous. Congress must immediately intervene to challenge this, ”he added.
Marco Rubio, US Secretary of State, assumed leadership of the agency. “I am the interim director of USAID,” Rubio said to reporters on a visit to El Salvador, saying that the agency had not answered questions and “this level of insubordination makes it impossible to conduct a kind of serious review.”
