{"id":137213,"date":"2025-02-04T09:10:27","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T07:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/donald-trump-and-elon-musk-work-to-shut-down-us-humanitarian-aid-agency\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T09:10:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T07:10:27","slug":"donald-trump-and-elon-musk-work-to-shut-down-us-humanitarian-aid-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/donald-trump-and-elon-musk-work-to-shut-down-us-humanitarian-aid-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump and Elon Musk work to shut down US humanitarian aid agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137213\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Thousands of USAID employees have been laid off and programmes shut down around the world in the two weeks since Trump became president and imposed a sweeping freeze on foreign assistance. Employees of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) have been instructed to stay out of its Washington headquarters after billionaire Elon Musk announced that President Donald Trump had agreed with him to shut the agency down.<\/p>\n<p>More than 600 additional employees had reported being locked out of the agency\u2019s computer systems overnight. Those still in the system received emails saying that \u201cat the direction of Agency leadership\u201d the headquarters building \u201cwill be closed to Agency personnel on Monday, Feb. 3.\u201d USAID&#8217;s website and its account on the X platform have also been taken down. Trump told reporters on Monday that shutting down USAID &#8221;should have been done a long time ago&#8221;, although he conceded that &#8221;loved the concept of it&#8221; during his first term in office.<\/p>\n<p>Asked whether he needs Congress to approve such a measure, the president said he did not think so. &#8221;I don&#8217;t know, I don&#8217;t think so. No, we&#8217;ve, not when it comes to fraud, if there&#8217;s fraud, these people are lunatics. And if if it comes to fraud, you wouldn&#8217;t have an act of Congress. And I&#8217;m not sure that you would anyway. But we just want to do the right thing. That&#8217;s, it&#8217;s something that should have been done a long time ago, went crazy during the Biden administration,&#8221; Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Musk is leading a civilian review of the federal government with Trump&#8217;s agreement, announcing on a live session of X Spaces that he had spoken with Trump at length about the agency and \u201che agreed we should shut it down.\u201d \u201cIt became apparent that it&#8217;s not an apple with a worm it in,\u201d Musk said in a live session on X Spaces early on Monday. \u201cWhat we have is just a ball of worms. You\u2019ve got to basically get rid of the whole thing. It\u2019s beyond repair.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, the Trump administration placed two top security chiefs at USAID on leave after they refused to turn over classified material in restricted areas to Musk\u2019s government-inspection teams, a current and a former US official said. Musk&#8217;s Department of Government Efficiency earlier carried out a similar operation at the Treasury Department, gaining access to sensitive information including the Social Security and Medicare customer payment systems. US media reported that a senior Treasury official had resigned over Musk\u2019s team accessing sensitive information.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/02\/04\/donald-trump-and-elon-musk-work-to-shut-down-us-humanitarian-aid-agency\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/02\/04\/donald-trump-and-elon-musk-work-to-shut-down-us-humanitarian-aid-agency\">Euronews<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vau-viikkokatsaus\/donald-trump-and-elon-musk-work-to-shut-down-us-humanitarian-aid-agency\/\">Donald Trump and Elon Musk work to shut down US humanitarian aid agency<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[987,3873,17819,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-137213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-musk","tag-trump","tag-us-humanitarian-aid-agency","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}