Donald Trump and Elon Musk just handed entrenched bureaucrats a devastating defeat

March 12, 2025 Cat2, Politics
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Three Key Takeaways:

  • The Trump administration has eliminated 83% of USAID programs, canceling 5,200 contracts worth tens of billions of dollars.
  • Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced remaining programs will be transferred to State Department control.
  • USAID was found funding radical left-wing initiatives including DEI programs in Burma and ESG projects in Africa.

The Trump administration just took an axe to one of Washington, D.C.’s most wasteful bureaucracies. 

It’s being hailed as a massive win for American taxpayers.

And Donald Trump and Elon Musk just handed entrenched bureaucrats a devastating defeat.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio dropped a bombshell Monday morning, revealing that a staggering 83% of United States Agency for International Development programs are getting the boot.

The sweeping cuts didn’t come out of nowhere. 

After a grueling six-week deep dive by the Department of Government Efficiency, investigators uncovered a shocking pattern of waste that’ll make your blood boil. 

We’re talking billions of dollars flushed down the drain on radical left-wing pet projects – like dropping $45 million on “diversity” scholarships in Burma, of all places.

“The 5200 contracts that are now cancelled spent tens of billions of dollars in ways that did not serve, (and in some cases even harmed), the core national interests of the United States,” Rubio explained in a post on X announcing the cut.


And Elon Musk, who’s been serving as a special adviser to the administration through DOGE, didn’t mince words about the cleanup operation. “Tough, but necessary,” he replied on X.


The tech mogul hasn’t exactly been shy about calling out USAID’s habit of “interfering in governments throughout the world and pushing radical left politics.”


The remaining programs – roughly 1,000 of them – aren’t getting free rein. They’re being moved under State Department control, a decision Rubio says came after extensive talks with Congress. It’s a smart move that should tighten oversight of whatever legitimate aid programs actually deserve American tax dollars.

Yet despite this massive victory for fiscal sanity, the uniparty in Washington, D.C. is already trying to undermine the reforms. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) sounded the alarm about the latest continuing resolution.

“Despite @DOGE’s findings of loony left-wing USAID programs the Republican spending bill continues to fund the very foreign aid @elonmusk proposes to cut,” Paul warned in a fiery post on X. “The bill continues spending at the inflated pandemic levels and will add $2T to the debt this year. Count me as a hell no!”


Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) – never one to sugarcoat things – explained it as plain as can be. “The CR isn’t Trump’s agenda. The CR extends the last year of Biden’s agenda at substantially the same spending levels.”


This showdown over USAID isn’t just about dollars and cents – it’s a test of whether the America First agenda can actually drain the Swamp or if the bureaucratic blob will keep growing unchecked. 

While the Trump team landed a serious blow against wasteful foreign aid, the uniparty is pushing back hard to maintain the status quo, promising – as always – that today’s spending cuts will be made tomorrow.

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