The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has specifically been targeted in the last week.
Former State Department Cyber employee, Mike Benz, provided comment on USAID to Steve Bannon's War Room:
"USAID gave $27M to a George Soros prosecutor group, including The Tides Center, which played a substantial role in Black Lives Matter."
Benz continued, "USAID is in the center of the State Department, the Pentagon, and the CIA. It’s a switch player that serves as a plausible deniability assistance agency to fund the rogue activities of those 3 federal agencies and it represents the sum consensus of the legacy foreign policy establishment that hated President Trump with a passion and wanted to take him down because of his foreign policy views."
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On Tuesday evening, all overseas missions for USAID were ordered to shut down and all staff to be recalled by Friday.
CBS News reported: "The newly appointed deputy administrator for the agency, Pete Marocco, met with State Department leadership on Tuesday and instructed them to get every USAID employee out of their respective countries worldwide by Friday, according to two sources familiar with the matter. Marocco said that if the State Department did not, the staff would be evacuated by the U.S. military, the sources said.
The agency provides humanitarian aid to more than 100 countries, including disaster relief, health and medical aid, and emergency food programs.
USAID has more than 10,000 employees, with about two-thirds serving overseas, according to a Congressional Research Service report. The agency maintains more than 60 country and regional missions.
The Trump administration has targeted USAID as the president and his allies — including billionaire Elon Musk, the head of the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE — seek to cut the size of the federal government.
Musk has said the agency should be shut down, arguing that it's "beyond repair."
When asked Tuesday whether he would wind down USAID, Trump told reporters, "It sounds like it." The president also praised Musk for scrutinizing the agency.
"Look at all the fraud that he's found," Mr. Trump said, adding that funding has gone to "all sorts of groups that shouldn't deserve to get any money."