USAID was investigating Elon Musk's Starlink before he and DOGE accused them of corruption and gutted them

[RamsayBolton]

Elon Musk's Enemy, USAID, Was Investigating Starlink's Contracts in Ukraine

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

gizmodo.com

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. Publicly available information about that probe is still online. An announcement from last May reads: “The USAID Office of Inspector General, Inspections and Evaluations Division, is initiating an inspection of USAID’s oversight of Starlink satellite terminals provided to the Government of Ukraine. Our objectives are to determine how (1) the Government of Ukraine used the USAID-provided Starlink terminals, and (2) USAID monitored the Government of Ukraine’s use of USAID-provided Starlink terminals.”

Musk has called the agency “evil” and a “criminal organization,” though the fact that USAID was investigating the Starlink activities may suggest ulterior motivations for the billionaire’s vitriol. It’s unclear what the Starlink probe’s status is right now.

USAID has a long, controversial history and has often been accused by foreign governments of being a front for the CIA. While the agency dispenses aid to foreign countries, it has often been entangled in scandals. 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.” That said, Elon Musk literally works for the deep state, so I don’t know how his being in charge is any better.

 

[RamsayBolton]

bump

 

[O.T.I.S.]

Exactly

These are plays people need to understand..

FAA was blocking him as well

 

[Json]

Just top tier corruption

 

[Silkk]

Man….

 

[Wiseborn]

When shyt starts to affect the average americans the investigations that will happen is gonna take up all of congress’s time.

trump can and will pardon him but it won’t stop the investiagtions.

 

[Diunx]

Thats what they get for doing business with a Boer Nazi in the first place

 

[Richard Glidewell]

 

[Arizax2]

Nothing to see here

 

[Vandelay]

It's over.

Country ain't going back. We're all gonna be dead or old before this country has any semblance of empathy and welfare for people who are not wealthy and in power.

 

[Json]

When shyt starts to affect the average americans the investigations that will happen is gonna take up all of congress’s time.

trump can and will pardon him but it won’t stop the investiagtions.

Basically Medicare and Medicaid.

 

[Black Hans]

Don't care. USAID got to go

at you trying to defend that demonic organization.

*waits for the inevitable juelzing* "But Arab Spring was a good thing to do"

 

[Wiseborn]

Basically Medicare and Medicaid.

Actually if you were really concerned about the debt and taxes you’d cut that but the guy who cuts that might actually get the Luigi treatment.

 

[Json]

Actually if you were really concerned about the debt and taxes you’d cut that but the guy who cuts that might actually get the Luigi treatment.

He’s going to have to.

They only have until the end of the year to make those tax cuts permanent. The longer the courts drag things out, the less time he has.

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

Look on the bright side, since we in a Anything Goes era, rumble tumble dudes will end up becoming day of the jackal brehs