Why does Musk want USAID 'to die'? And why did its website disappear?

[Dulcinea]

(NPR) It's been a tumultuous weekend for USAID — the U.S. Agency for International Development. On Saturday sometime after 3 a.m., its website went down, according to the Internet Archive, a nonprofit group that tracks web pages.

Some browsers display the error message: "This site can't be reached. Check if there is a typo in www.usaid.gov."

The agency's account on X (formerly Twitter) has also been deleted.

Early Monday morning, Elon Musk, speaking during a live "Space" conversation on X, said his Department of Government Efficiency is in the process of "shutting down USAID."

https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/02/02/g-s1-46007/usaid-web-site-trump-state-department

[JohnSJ]

1. It is simple. The nazi wants to cut programs.

[LonePirate]

2. Not sure how true but supposedly USAID helped end apartheid in South Africa. With EM being a Nazi, it tracks.

[blm]

3. Because Putin wants it ended.

[Phoenix61]

4. He has no understanding of how the real world works.

Sadly, for all of us, he thinks he’s a genius.

[Skittles]

5. or maybe he does

and he is simply that evil