Even Trump’s chief of staff was ‘aghast’ at Elon Musk’s deadly USAID cuts
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White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles criticized Elon Musk for his disruptive actions, including USAID cuts, during the Trump administration, describing him as a 'complete solo actor' who caused unnecessary crises.
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Elon Musk, a billionaire who decimated the United States federal workforce using the Department of Government Efficiency, is not remembered fondly by the most powerful woman in Washington: Susie Wiles, White House Chief of Staff and the gatekeeper to President Donald Trump.
In several on-the-record interviews with Vanity Fair's Chris Whipple conducted over the past year, Wiles, who had corralled the notoriously backstabby Trump political operation into coherence and discipline, described Musk as a "complete solo actor" who had plunged the Trump administration into several unnecessary crises - including the shuttering of USAID, the United S …