Billionaire businessman Elon Musk said on Monday that President Trump agreed the United States Agency for International Development should be shut down.

USAID programs include things like vaccination initiatives, which can help prevent the spread of diseases, but critics claim the spending is wasteful.

Dr. Atul Gawande said denigrating the agency is "dangerous for the country" and shuttering its programs could make Americans less safe.

In its first two weeks, President Donald Trump’s administration has made significant changes to the U.S. Agency for International Development

In an unprecedented flexing of the power of the executive branch, unelected billionaire Elon Musk is shutting down the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Until a few days ago, most Americans might have gone their entire lives without hearing of the US Agency for International Development, the little-known government organization that the world’s wealthiest man targeted for dissolution over the weekend by labeling it as a criminal enterprise on his social media platform.

Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, said Monday that he was now the acting administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, the federal humanitarian aid agency that has been targeted for closure by Elon Musk.

The Agency for International Development supports a wide range of programs in countries around the world, from disaster relief to public health, but Musk said it was “time” for USAID to “die.”

President Donald Trump’s administration has made significant changes to the U.S. agency charged with delivering humanitarian assistance overseas that has left aid