Musk’s ‘Doge’ claim about USAid funds for India sets off political firestorm

<p>Apparently baseless claim that $21m was given to help voter turnout seized on by Trump and Modi government </p><p>Elon Musk’s “department of government efficiency” has been accused of setting off a political firestorm in India after it claimed that the US government had been sending millions of dollars to support the Indian elections.</p><p>In a <a href="https://x.com/DOGE/status/1890849405932077378">list published on Musk’s social media platform X last week</a>, Doge, a special group that Donald Trump created, claimed that a $21m grant distributed by USAid – the US agency for international development – to help “voter turnout in India” had been cancelled, as part of the president’s sweeping cuts to foreign aid.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/24/musk-doge-claim-usaid-funds-india-trump-modi">Continue reading...</a>