{"id":69652,"date":"2025-02-24T22:27:43","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T13:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/24\/musk-doge-claim-usaid-funds-india-trump-modi"},"modified":"2025-02-24T22:27:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T13:27:43","slug":"musks-doge-claim-about-usaid-funds-for-india-sets-off-political-firestorm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69652","title":{"rendered":"Musk\u2019s \u2018Doge\u2019 claim about USAid funds for India sets off political firestorm"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apparently baseless claim that $21m was given to help voter turnout seized on by Trump and Modi government <\/p>\n

Elon Musk\u2019s \u201cdepartment of government efficiency\u201d 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>\n

In a list published on Musk\u2019s social media platform X last week<\/a>, Doge, a special group that Donald Trump created, claimed that a $21m grant distributed by USAid \u2013 the US agency for international development \u2013 to help \u201cvoter turnout in India\u201d had been cancelled, as part of the president\u2019s sweeping cuts to foreign aid.<\/p>\n

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Apparently baseless claim that $21m was given to help voter turnout seized on by Trump and Modi government Elon Musk\u2019s \u201cdepartment of government efficiency\u201d has been accused of setting off a political firestorm in India after it claimed that the US gov…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[415,1978,62,61,47,3251,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump","category-elon-musk","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-news","category-usaid","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69653,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69652\/revisions\/69653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}