Ron Paul has called for the new Department of Governmental Efficiency (DOGE) to eliminate all foreign aid.
The retired Congressman directed a Tweet at the DOGE account in which he said an “easy” target for the department would be foreign aid.
“ELIMINATE foreign aid! Paul Tweeted.
“It’s taking money from the poor and middle class in the US and giving it to the rich in poor countries – with a cut to the facilitators in between! Americans don’t want their government to borrow more money to spend on foreign aid. Besides, it is the immoral transfer of wealth and is unconstitutional.”
Paul posted a graph to accompany the Tweet. It showed that the US, by far, is the largest foreign aid donor, giving almost four times as much as the European Commission or Germany, in second and third place respectively.
Soon after Paul’s Tweet, Elon Musk, the man in charge of DOGE with Vivek Ramaswamy, replied and confirmed that the foreign aid budget would be under consideration.
“DOGE will address this with full transparency for the American people,” Musk replied.
Response to the exchange was enthusiastic, with Twitter users describing foreign aid as “money laundering” and drawing attention to comments made by Ronald Reagan about foreign-aid money being spent on “dress suits for Greek undertakers” and “a thousand TV sets for a place where they have no electricity.”