Killing USAID by contrast is, as experts have noted, a gift to Russia and China. It's a gift to Russia because the current largest line item the USAID budget goes to Ukraine, which has been as devastated by the Russian invasion as many of those European countries were by the Nazis in 1945.

If federal agencies were chocolate bars, Elon Musk is a kid in a candy store. The world’s richest man can’t keep his hands off the U.S. government, despite not being an elected official. In his current grab for power,