Well, it's official. Elon Musk and President Trump are, once again, allowed to go ahead and dismantle USAID.

After a somewhat short legal battle, a federal appeals court determined just last Friday that the Trump administration does have the full authority to gut the agency.

And gutter they are, given the fact that right now, most employees have already

been let go, most contracts have already been terminated, their headquarters building has already

been given to another agency. On top of all that, within the next three months, anything within

USAID that's going to be kept will be rolled into the state department while everything else will

just be discontinued,

effectively making the agency a shell of its former self. Let's go through the backstory here

together, as well as what this all means going forward. Now, getting back to USAID, if we rewind the

clock back to January, one of the very first things that Trump did upon assuming office

was to take an agency that was established by Barack Obama and change it into the Department

of Government Efficiency, otherwise known as Doge. He then attached Elon Musk to that department

with the stated goal being to root out government fraud as well as government waste.

The sheer amount of waste and fraud in the government.

It is astonishing.

It's mind-blowing.

Just we routinely encounter wastes of a billion dollars or more.

Elon and Doge then got to work, and one of the very first things that they exposed

was the spending that was being done over at USAID. Now, I'm sure you've

seen many of these examples before, but some notable line items include $1.5 million to advance

diversity, equity, and inclusion in Serbia's business communities. $70,000 spent on the production of a DEI musical in Ireland.

$2.5 million for electric vehicles in Vietnam.

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