Donald Trump asserted that nothing stops DOGE's chipping machine and after the US Agency for International Development (USAID) which Elon Musk and Donald Trump confirmed would be shut down, they would move on to other departments. Trump said Elon Musk would check the education department and then there's the military to be scrutinized.
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