Donald Trump is sending chills across the world with a slew of newly announced tariffs against Canada, Mexico and China as he tries to show his adversaries who is boss.
And the ‘atrocious’ United Kingdom has been put on notice by Trump as he widens attacks.
He said Sunday that the ‘out of line’ UK might be next if he can’t do a deal with Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
Trump’s top adviser Elon Musk’s grip on power is solidifying as he took a major step to close down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
‘I want to be clear. I actually checked with him a few times. I said, ‘Are you sure?’ ‘Yes.’ So we’re shutting it down,’ Musk said on X over the weekend.
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Global trade war panic as Trump targets ‘atrocious’ EU
The US president fuelled fears of a global trade war as he confirmed he will be imposing levies on the ‘atrocious’ EU.
Stocks around the world have been diving on the intensifying action, with the FTSE 100 down over 100 points in early trading. Shares in Germany, France and Asia have been hit even harder.
By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter in Washington, D.C.
Elon Musk and President Donald Trump shut down the embattled government agency tasked with humanitarian relief overseas after they agreed the organization was ‘beyond repair’.
The billionaire ‘first buddy’ led a civilian review of the federal government with Trump’s go-ahead and decided this week to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and it’s Washington, D.C. offices.
Staff were shocked when they woke up Monday morning to emails instructing them to stay out of the agency’s D.C. headquarters.
‘It became apparent that it’s not an apple with a worm it in,’ Musk said in an audio-only appearance on X. ‘What we have is just a ball of worms. You’ve got to basically get rid of the whole thing. It’s beyond repair.’
The Tesla and SpaceX boss noted in the announcement on his social media site that he spoke with Trump about the agency and they ‘agreed we should shut it down.’
As of 2016, USAID reported that it had 10,235 employees on its payroll.
It managed more than $40 billion in appropriations in Fiscal Year 2023, which is less than 1 percent of the federal budget. USAID provides development and assistance in about 130 countries with these funds.
USAID staffers said they tracked 600 employees who reported being locked out of the agency’s computer systems overnight.
Those still in the system received messages to their work emails saying ‘at the direction of Agency leadership’ the headquarters building ‘will be closed to Agency personnel on Monday, Feb. 3.’
DOGE sets its sights on $50 BILLION government department Elon Musk claims is a ‘criminal organization’
Elon Musk attacked the embattled government agency tasked with humanitarian relief overseas on Sunday, calling it a ‘criminal organization’ after Donald Trump claimed it was ‘run by radical lunatics.’
The assault on the US Agency for International Development (USAID) marks a significant new front Musk’s unprecedented power grab to upend federal departments and eliminate what the he considers wasteful spending.
‘USAID is a criminal organization,’ Musk, the billionaire owner of Tesla and SpaceX who has become the president’s most powerful backer, wrote on his X platform without providing any evidence adding ‘Time for it to die’.
Trump puts another foreign country on notice after targeting Mexico and Canada with steep tariffs
President Donald Trump threatened to cut all future funding to South Africa in an effort to punish the government for allowing what he called ‘human rights violations.’
In the first month of his second presidential term, Trump has set to work imposing tariffs on foreign nations, sparking retaliatory measures in return from both Mexico and Canada.
Undeterred, Trump shared to Truth Social on Sunday that he’s now set his sights on South Africa – in an apparent reaction to a new law over land expropriation.
