Warning, article doesn’t really answer the second question.
Among the many positive accomplishments by USAID over the course of its history was to help bring an end to apartheid in South Africa through peaceful means.
as usual, Trump doesn’t give a shit. it’s Musk who hates it. and it’s not hard to figure out why.
Trump dislikes it because it helps people. He HATES it because most of the people it helps are both poor and foreign.