Elon Musk drove fringe viewpoints on USAID into the mainstream on X, as the Trump administration halted the humanitarian relief agency’s work.

One China expert told Newsweek that the USAID funding freeze had handed an "enormous gift" to Beijing's push to influence the Global South. Meanwhile, one Kremlin propagandist has said on Russian television that Moscow could exploit the gap left by USAID and project geopolitical power with a similar program.

Former USAID administrator Andrew Natsios, who served under the Bush administration, joins Nicolle Wallace to discuss the agency’s work and pushes back against the negative stories being spread about the agency on partisan lines as Elon Musk and President Donald Trump take aim.