Fico: "US not interested in interfering in other countries' affairs"

Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico said he had discussed the closure of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) with the head of the US Department of Government Effectiveness (DOGE) and entrepreneur Elon Musk, saying the US was not interested in its money being used to interfere in the affairs of other countries.

"We talked about the closed USAID, this is an American agency that allocated quite large financial resources to non-governmental organizations and media in Slovakia, which were then used by these anti-government media and various anti-government organizations to carry out anti-government activities... Mr. Musk assured us that this era is over, since the administration of the new US president is not interested in interference in the internal affairs of other countries through American money," Fico said.