India, Feb. 6 -- The US Agency for International Development (USAID) faced an unprecedented shutdown days after President Donald Trump labelled the agency "corrupt." Established by then-President John F. Kennedy, the agency's dozens of officials were put on leave, and thousands of contractors were laid off. This mass termination came as Trump and his new-founded department of government efficiency (DOGE), led by billionaire Elon Musk, worked to shut down the foreign aid agency to merge it into the State Department. Expectedly, social media is buzzing with posts about this incident, and a cheeky one from the Indian-origin CEO of Perplexity AI, Aravind Srinivas, has attracted people's attention.

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