Billionaire business magnate Elon Musk, who President-elect Donald Trump tapped to lead the new cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), agreed with former lawmaker Ron Paul’s suggestion that the US should end foreign aid.
“Here’s an easy one for @DOGE!” Paul stated in a post on X. “ELIMINATE foreign aid!”
‘It takes money from the poor and middle class in the US and gives it to the rich in poor countries – with a cut to the enablers in between! Americans don’t want their government to borrow more money to spend on foreign aid. “It is the immoral transfer of wealth and is unconstitutional,” Paul claimed.
“@DOGE will address this with full transparency to the American people,” Musk replied.
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Newly elected US President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, left, watch the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket on November 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 else who posted about Paul’s call to cut foreign aid, Musk stated, “Ron isn’t 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 Bitcoin 2021 Convention, a cryptocurrency conference held in Miami on June 4, 2021 at the Mana Convention Center in Wynwood. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Musk and Ramaswamy have both been asked by Trump to work together on DOGE, which the president-elect said in a statement last month will “provide advice and guidance from outside the government, and work with the White House and the Office of Management & Budget to drive large-scale structural reforms and create an entrepreneurial approach to government never seen before.”
Musk and Ramaswamy have indicated that they believe funding from 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 meeting with Representative Kat Cammack and other members of the United States Congress on December 5, 2024 in Washington, D.C. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
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“We need to take a hard look at US government funding of ‘non-governmental organizations,’” Ramaswamy noted in a post on transparency about opaque foreign aid and nonprofit organizations that are furthering our own border crisis.”
“Absolutely,” Musk agreed.
