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USAID Was Investigating Starlink Over Its Contracts in Ukraine | The agency was in the midst of a probe into the billionaire's company at the time of the assault.


The agency was in the midst of a probe into the billionaire's company at the time of Musk's assault.

The Lever reported Tuesday that USAID’s inspector general was in the process of investigating its own public-private partnership between Musk’s Starlink and the Ukrainian government at the time that the billionaire’s DOGE crippled the agency. As far as I can tell, it’s basically Elon being followed around by a bunch of “Gregs.” If the bottom ever falls out of this thing and DOGE runs into legal trouble, it’s easy to imagine that Musk’s army of anti-bureaucracy grunts might be considered expendable. It hardly represents, as Sean Hannity recently put it, “radical DEI, woke, transgender, you know, leftist, Green New Deal madness.” Given its history, it’s obvious that Musk’s battle against the agency will play well with voters who earnestly believe Trump wants to “ destroy the deep state.

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