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Billionaire business magnate Elon Musk, who President-elect Donald Trump tapped to head the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), he agreed with former Rep. Ron Paul’s suggestion that the US should end foreign aid.
“Here’s an easy one for @DOGE!” Paul declared in a post on X. “ELIMINATE FOREIGN AID!”
“It’s taking money from the poor and middle class in the US and giving it to the rich in poor countries, with a cut to the facilitators in between! Americans don’t want their government asking for more money to spend on foreign aid . Moreover, it is an immoral transfer of wealth and is unconstitutional,” Paul said.
“@DOGE will address this with full transparency to the American people,” Musk replied.
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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk, left, watch the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket Nov. 19, 2024, in Brownsville, Texas. Ron Paul, right, attends Consensus 2019 at the Hilton Midtown on May 13, 2019 in New York City. (Left: Brandon Bell/Getty Images; Right: Steven Ferdman/Getty Images)
In response to someone who posted about Paul’s call to eliminate foreign aid, Musk stated, “Ron is not wrong.”
Vivek Ramaswamyanother DOGE leader, responded to Paul’s post, writing, “Much of US foreign aid *isn’t even authorized* by Congress.”
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Former Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) speaks at the 2021 Bitcoin Convention, a cryptocurrency conference held at the Mana Convention Center in Wynwood on June 4, 2021 in Miami. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Musk and Ramaswamy were selected by Trump to work together at DOGE, which the president-elect said in a statement last month “will provide advice and guidance from outside the government, and will partner with the White House and the Office of Management and Budget to drive large-scale structural reform and create an entrepreneurial approach to government never seen before.”
Musk and Ramaswamy have indicated that they believe the funding of non-governmental organizations should be examined.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk, right, and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy, co-chairs of the newly announced Department of Government Efficiency at the U.S. Capitol after a meeting with Rep. Kat Cammack and other members of Congress from USA on December 5, 2024 in Washington, DC (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
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“We need to scrutinize US government funding of ‘non-governmental organizations,'” Ramaswamy noted in a post on X. “It’s an oxymoron that represents a waste of taxpayer dollars, but the real problem is deeper : Americans deserve transparency about opaque foreign aid and non-profit groups contributing to our own border crisis.”
“Absolutely,” Musk agreed.
