Driving the news: Iran’s government has seemingly welcomed the agency’s overhaul and freezing U.S. foreign aid, with state media reports suggesting the moves will cut off support pro-democracy activists, APreported.

• Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev praised Elon Musk — Trump’s righthand man who has led the charge against USAID — for “trying to plug USAID’s Deep Throat.”
• Russian ultra-nationalist Alexander Duginpraised the USAID’s takedown as a “critical blow to globalism” in the right-wing outlet Arktos.