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They Killed It: Trump and Musk Officially Dismantle USAID, and Millions Will Pay the Price [1]
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Date: 2025-03-29
They Killed It: Trump and Musk Officially Dismantle USAID, and Millions Will Pay the Price
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They finally did it.
After months of chaos, cruelty, and calculated sabotage, the Trump administration has formally announced the effective dissolution of USAID—the agency responsible for saving lives, fighting hunger, and preventing wars across the globe. And they didn’t even bother to ask Congress.
This wasn’t a mistake. This wasn’t a bureaucratic shuffle. This was a cold-blooded execution, led by Donald Trump and his authoritarian sidekick Elon Musk, and it will result in suffering on a scale most Americans can’t even begin to imagine.
Burn It All Down, Call It Efficiency
The State Department claims it’s simply “reorganizing.” That’s a lie. This is annihilation. USAID employees are being fired en masse. Entire departments, erased. Lifesaving programs—vaccination drives, famine relief, maternal healthcare, education for girls—terminated or “folded in” to a State Department that neither has the capacity nor the interest to keep them alive.
This isn't reform. It's a hostile takeover, orchestrated by Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a Frankenstein agency built for one purpose: to burn down public institutions in service of an extremist, billionaire-driven ideology.
In an internal memo dripping with contempt, DOGE liaison Jeremy Lewin gloated that “substantially all non-statutory positions at USAID will be eliminated.” Reduction-in-force notices are already going out. These aren’t just pink slips—they’re death warrants for the people USAID served: newborns in refugee camps, families relying on malaria nets, communities on the brink of starvation.
An Illegal Power Grab, and They Know It
Let’s be clear: Congress created USAID. It has never approved this reorganization. The executive branch is unilaterally dismantling an agency established by law, and they’re daring anyone to stop them. Lawsuits are already piling up from former employees and aid groups. Some of them were stranded overseas after being fired, forced to pay their own way home while their careers—and their missions—were destroyed overnight.
This is government by tantrum. It’s illegal. It’s cruel. And it’s being carried out with full awareness of the consequences.
The Price of Ego: Global Collapse
USAID was never just about charity. It was about stability, diplomacy, and soft power. American influence abroad didn’t come from bombs and threats—it came from showing up in the middle of a disaster with food, medicine, and hope.
Now, thanks to Trump and Musk, we’ve handed that role over to China, to Russia, to authoritarian regimes eager to fill the vacuum. America’s allies are furious. Our enemies are thrilled. The international order is wobbling, and Trump is kicking the legs out from under it while Musk tweets memes from his bunker.
The Gravediggers of Progress
We should call this what it is: an act of political arson committed by men who see democracy and compassion as obstacles to power. Trump and Musk aren’t cutting waste—they’re cutting moral lifelines. They’re not strengthening America—they’re strangling its global role until all that’s left is fear, isolation, and corporate contracts.
Every child who dies from a preventable disease, every famine that spreads unchecked, every refugee turned away from a shuttered program—they all have names. And now they have killers, too.
This administration has blood on its hands, and no memo, no restructuring, no PR spin will wash it off.
What You Can Do
Call Congress. Scream. Write. Protest. Show up.
Demand an emergency legislative response. Demand a full investigation into DOGE. Demand accountability for the ideologues who torched USAID and called it reform.
And don’t ever forget this moment—because when the history books are written, they will say: America turned its back on the world. And it did so on purpose.
Please tell your Members of Congress to support humanitarian aid. You can find their name and phone number here .
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