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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
John Bowden

Trump’s White House chief rips Elon Musk for USAID cuts ‘no rational person’ could support

Elon Musk’s destruction of USAID ran counter to the Trump administration’s broader goals and ignited a firestorm that the White House couldn’t control, Donald Trump’s chief of staff revealed in a bombshell new interview.

The explosive Vanity Fair interview with White House chief of staff Susie Wiles hit D.C. Tuesday and provides a stark view of her opinion of Musk, recently one of the most powerful people in the United States government with a small army of minions who oversaw the disassembling of the nation’s foreign assistance apparatus amid a campaign of unchecked cost-cutting across the federal government.

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