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Crossroads with Joshua Philipp

DOGE Spars with USAID Over Government Aid

Crossroads with Joshua Philipp

The Epoch Times

Government, Education

4.9594 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) under Elon Musk has gained access to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). And the investigations of what the USAID has been funding are now sparking a national debate. The agency is now being moved under the State Department and could serve a different mission going forward.

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The Department of Government Efficiency, that's Doge, they have now gained access to the documents and files and payments of USAID.

0:08.0

And look, with this, the investigations are going into what the United States Agency for International Development has been funding, and it's now sparking a national debate.

0:18.0

And also the investigations at U.S. spending, they don't end there.

0:22.1

Elon Musk through the Doge Department has also now gained access to the Treasury Department

0:27.4

payment system and their data. And meanwhile, Trump has also signed in order to create the first

0:33.3

ever U.S. sovereign wealth fund. It might even buy TikTok with it. Also, Trump's threats to have

0:39.5

the U.S. retake control of the Panama Canal. Well, the threats seem to be working. Panama has now

0:44.9

pulled out of the CCP's Belt and Road initiative. I'm the Epic Times Senior Investigator

0:49.1

reporter Joshua Phillip, and you're listening to Crossroads.

1:02.6

The Department of Government Efficiency, Doge under Elon Musk.

1:06.4

Well, it has gained access to USAID.

1:11.4

And the investigations into what the United States Agency for International Development has been giving our money to is now sparking a very big debate. The agency is now being moved under the

1:17.9

State Department. They're kind of reforming its operations as we speak, and it could serve a different

1:23.3

mission going forward through this. Now, Elon Musk has been taken to X to highlight the many,

1:29.3

many examples of what U.S. taxpayer dollars has been spent on through USAID. I mean, I'll just

1:35.8

give you an example, one where he commented, mind-blowing allegedly shows that USAID and others

1:43.0

had sent over $40 million to scientists. Guess where?

1:48.6

Wuhan China. To do what? Well, to work on bat coronavirus emergence. Interesting.

1:56.5

Now Mike Ben's executive director of the Foundation for Freedom Online noted the impact of the information release, and he said on X, quote,

2:04.7

what you will quickly find as you enter the amazing USAID vortex of despair is that virtually every powerful political and financial motor of American society that promotes and lobbies for USAID is either directly

2:20.9

on USAID's payroll works at a place that is or his slash her donors do, suggesting, of course,

2:28.6

that USAID seems to be giving money to people who are defending it and it's kind of its own little

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