By Lucas Ropek Published February 5, 2025 | Comments (0) | Kenny Holston/The New York Times/Bloomberg via Getty Images Since coming into power, Elon Musks Department of Government Efficiency has barraged USAID, the international aid agency that dispenses food and supplies to nations all over the world. It is likely that the agency will soon be shuttered and could be subsumed into the U.S. State Department. Now, new reporting shows USAID was actually investigating one of Musks companies at the time that he attacked the agency. The Lever reported Tuesday that USAIDs inspector general was in the process of investigating its own public-private partnership between Musks Starlink and the Ukrainian government at the time that the billionaires DOGE crippled the agency. Publicly available information about that probe is still online. An announcement from last May reads: The USAID Office of Inspector General, Inspections and Evaluations Division, is initiating an inspection of USAIDs oversight of Starlink satellite terminals provided to the Government of Ukraine. Our objectives are to determine how (1) the Government of Ukraine used the USAID-provided Starlink terminals, and (2) USAID monitored the Government of Ukraines use of USAID-provided Starlink terminals. Musk has called the agency evil and a criminal organization, though the fact that USAID was investigating his company may suggest ulterior motivations for the billionaires vitriol. Its unclear what the Starlink probes status is right now. Musks criminal remarks are funny since it increasingly looks like Musks DOGE activities represent breaches of federal law and, therefore, may be construed as rampant criminal behavior. On Tuesday, the Washington Post noted that officials at half a dozen federal agencies had raised concerns over whether what Musk was doing was illegal. Those agencies included the Treasury Department, the Education Department, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the General Services Administration, the Office of Personnel Management, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the White House budget office, among others, the newspaper reported. DOGE also suffered its second lawsuit this week, when union groups that protect federal workers sued the organization over its hijacking of the Treasury computer systems. The litigation alleges that DOGE may be violating a federal privacy lawby allowing Musks stooges to access certain systems.DOGE has been staffed by a bunch of kids in their 20s who are now engaged in unprecedented, legally risky work. As far as I can tell, its basically Elon being followed around by a bunch of Gregs. If the bottom ever falls out of this thing and DOGE runs into legal trouble, its easy to imagine that Musks army of anti-bureaucracy grunts might be considered expendable. USAID has a long, controversial history and has often been accused by foreign governments of being a front for the CIA. While the agency dispenses aid to foreign countries, it has often been entangled in scandals. It hardly represents, as Sean Hannity recently put it, radical DEI, woke, transgender, you know, leftist, Green New Deal madness. Given its history, its obvious that Musks battle against the agency will play well with voters who earnestly believe Trump wants to destroy the deep state. That said, Elon Musk literally works for the deep state, so I dont know how his being in charge is any better.Daily NewsletterYou May Also Like By Matt Novak Published February 4, 2025 By Todd Feathers Published February 4, 2025 By Matt Novak Published February 4, 2025 By Lucas Ropek Published February 3, 2025 By Matthew Gault Published February 3, 2025 By Matthew Gault Published February 3, 2025