Musk had declared earlier on Sunday, “USAID is a criminal organization. Time for it to die.” He continued to take aim at the agency, which has an annual budget of more than $50 billion, with several more posts on his social media platform. NGO's are front orgs; Ernst brought along some “powerful anecdotes” of apparent abuses of spending at the request of Musk, including “sending kitties to spas to find out whether they produce less furballs” and putting “shrimp on a treadmill to see how fast they run.”
