'Damn right': Liz Cheney hits back at Elon Musk on his own site

Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) found herself in the crosshairs of MAGA allies again Wednesday and clapped back at Elon Musk who promoted a right-winger's post surfacing her past work in the U.S. Agency for International Development, itself under attack by the Trump administration.

Cheney previously served as a USAID officer in U.S. embassies, specifically, working for the agency in positions related to Poland, Hungary, Russia, and Ukraine. Her work with the agency dates to the early stages of her career, a fact picked up on and shared on X by Mike Benz, executive director of Foundation For Freedom Online.

Benz posted on X in December that Cheney — a vocal critic of President Donald Trump who endorsed former Vice President Kamala Harris in the election — was "spawned out of USAID." He shared a screenshot of an article that notes her first posts in the State Department in the early 2000s largely involved matters in the Middle East, "including democracy promotion."

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On Tuesday, Benz reshared his own post amid news the Trump administration placed U.S. aid workers on paid leave.

"Liz Cheney, who led Trump’s impeachment and the mass imprisonment campaign against thousands of Trump supporters, was spawned out of USAID," he wrote.

Musk, head of the so-called Department for Governmental Efficiency entity tasked with slashing trillions out of the federal budget, reshared Benz's post with the caption, "Interesting."

His post caught Cheney's attention, who offered a curt reply on X.

"Damn right, @Elon. I’m proud of what America did to win the Cold War, defeat Soviet communism, and defend democracy. Our nation stood for freedom. You may be unfamiliar with that part of our history since you weren’t yet an American citizen," she replied.

The exchange comes as Trump's order all but shut down the agency's six-decade mission to deliver humanitarian aid to other countries.