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Tina Nguyen @ The Verge 1 place · 12/16/2025 20:23 EDT

Even Trump’s chief of staff was ‘aghast’ at Elon Musk’s deadly USAID cuts

Elon Musk, a billionaire who decimated the United States federal workforce using the Department of Government Efficiency, is not remembered fondly by the most powerful woman in Washington: Susie Wiles, White House Chief of Staff and the gatekeeper to President Donald Trump. In several on-the-record interviews with Vanity Fair's Chris Whipple conducted over the past […]

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