Elon Musk anuncia el cierre de Usaid, el mayor donante de ayuda humanitaria del mundo: "Es un balón de gusanos. Hay que deshacerse de todo"

Donald Trump continues his policy of closing organizations and removing the US from many international institutions. On this occasion it was Elon Musk, current head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in Donald Trump's administration, who assured that he had spoken with the president about the Agency for International Development Assistance (USAID) and that the latter had told him that he agreed to close it.

Musk explained during a late-night debate late Monday at one of his companies, X Spaces, that he had discussed Usaid's problems in detail with Trump and asked him several times if he was sure he wanted to shut it down, and agreed to do so, according to U.S. media outlet Axios.

During the discussion, Musk defined Usaid as a "ball of worms." "It's become clear that it's not an apple with a worm in it," Musk said. "What we have is just a ball of worms. You have to get rid of everything. It's hopeless," he added.

The statements on the future of the agency by Musk, one of Trump's main supporters in his new administration, follow the Republican president's decision to freeze for ninety days almost all funding for USAID's foreign aid programs, whose budget exceeded $60 billion during Joe Biden's presidency.

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