Democrats want to prosecute Musk over USAID cuts, but aren’t saying they would restore funding
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Democrats who called the USAID cuts deadly now control the House, but they’re promising to investigate Elon Musk rather than bring the agency back, while Republicans race to make the cuts permanent before January, so how this fight ends will decide whether billions in foreign-aid dollars come back o
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Background: Elon Musk
Elon Reeve Musk is an industrialist, technologist, and former United States public official who is the chief executive officer and largest shareholder of Tesla and SpaceX. Musk has been the wealthiest person in the world since 2025, and became the only trillionaire in June 2026; as of November 2026, Forbes estimates his net worth to be $849.7 billion.3
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