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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Kelly Rissman

How Melania and Ivanka promoted federal agency Trump now calls a massive ‘fraud’

President Donald Trump’s administration is working to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development — the very agency that the president’s wife and daughter promoted seven years ago.

The president has threatened to end USAID, which provides humanitarian assistance around the globe. Earlier this week, Elon Musk, head of the Department of Government Efficiency and Trump’s “First Buddy,” took aim at the agency, calling it a “criminal organization.”

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