‘Time To Sue’: Elon Musk Wants Democrat Lawmaker To Pay For ‘Total Lie’ About USAID

While the Department of Government Efficiency went too far for big-government leftists and didn’t trim enough to satisfy many on the right, the effort did lead to some measurable change.

Perhaps the most notable was a decision to shutter the US Agency for International Development, which had been the subject of ongoing complaints about inefficiency and waste.

But many Democrats tried to portray the move as an existential threat to people in need around the world. 

And newly minted trillionaire Elon Musk, who was appointed to head DOGE, is calling out one of those Democrats, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), directly, as Fox News reported:

“I do believe once we take power, there needs to be accountability,” Khanna said. “There needs to be accountability for Elon Musk. You know, they’re celebrating that he created 4,400 millionaires, but they don’t talk about the 4.5 million children around the world who he possibly sentenced to death by dismantling USAID.”

Khanna continued, “He needs to answer for that. He needs to be subpoenaed. He needs to face investigation. He needs to answer for what he did with DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency]. It’s not just ‘let’s move on.'”

Musk responded to the story in an X post on Monday, where he wrote, “Time to sue this liar.”

Time to sue this liar

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 22, 2026

Another Musk post on the issue also attracted significant attention:

Let's talk about the very simple fact that less than 12 cents of every USAID dollar made it to the intended recipient! The rest landed in democrat campaign coffers and cushy salaries for lefty ngos! pic.twitter.com/E4aIZmDP2w

— Cali Conservative (@T_Hates_Cali) June 22, 2026

The left is straight up lying that DOGE “killed millions of kids” for simply asking “did the money actually go where it was supposed to?”

Meanwhile actual USAID employees are getting charged and pleading guilty to stealing taxpayer cash.

DOGE exposed the grift. The liars are…

— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) June 22, 2026

Here’s an excerpt from the New York Post article Musk referenced in his initial post: 

Host Jennifer Welch agreed with the idea of investigating Musk, claiming that he was responsible for “killing” millions through DOGE’s government spending cuts.

“I love that we need to keep pushing the talking point that you just had that we don’t need to celebrate Elon Musk making other people millionaires. If you are the party of pro-life like you say you are, MAGA, he’s killing millions of the poorest people on the planet,” Welch said. “So I think that hypocrisy there is really stunning.”

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Fox News Digital reached out to Khanna’s office, Tesla and SpaceX for comment.

Democratic politicians and mainstream media renewed their criticism against Musk after he became the world’s first trillionaire through SpaceX’s record-breaking IPO earlier this month, cementing Musk’s status as the world’s richest man.

Here’s some additional commentary: