Elon Musk: “Far too much of what USAID was doing was influencing…”

“I think that there are some worthy things, but overall if you say what is the bang for the buck? I would say it was not very good. And there was Far too much of what USAID was doing was influencing elections in ways that I think were dubious and do not stand the light of day. I could just ask a follow up to the Pentagon contracts. If you have received received billions of dollars in contracts from the Pentagon and the President is directing you to look into the Department of Defense.” (24:46–24:57)

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