Although a lot of conjecture and suspicions usually accompanied the USAID funding ventures abroad, hardly had any one expected that an American president himself (Donald Trump) and his team would double down and blow the lid off the USAID-CIA partnership for intelligence gathering and covert operations overseas.

"They should not put those 2,200 people on administrative leave,” U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee, told Trump administration attorneys at an emergency hearin

Elon Musk “ spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper ,” he posted Monday morning on X, adding that he destroyed the independent Cabinet-level body—formally known as the U.S. Agency for International Development—on President Trump’s orders.