Musk says he's working to shut down USAID as employees told to stay home
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#3Without a law that says USAID can be shut down or reorganized (or not funded) it seems that this is pretty much by definition entirely illegal regardless of one's opinions about USAID.
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#4Without a law that says USAID can be shut down or reorganized (or not funded) it seems that this is pretty much by definition entirely illegal regardless of one's opinions about USAID.
Question to ponder: if Trump and Musk were hostile foreign agents, how would they behave differently?
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#5Without a law that says USAID can be shut down or reorganized (or not funded) it seems that this is pretty much by definition entirely illegal regardless of one's opinions about USAID.
Pretty much everything they've been doing is illegal. The million-dollar question is whether they'll be held to account. Trump has a pretty good track record of facing little to no consequences for his crimes. The pessimist in me says this time will be no different. We'll see.
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#6Without a law that says USAID can be shut down or reorganized (or not funded) it seems that this is pretty much by definition entirely illegal regardless of one's opinions about USAID.
Question to ponder: if Trump and Musk were hostile foreign agents, how would they behave differently?
Be less obvious that they're out to destroy America. A hostile foreign agent would be too concerned with having their cover blown if they were that obvious.
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#7> But President Trump was less definitive about shuttering the agency, telling reporters on Sunday night that USAID was run by "a bunch of radical lunatics".
> "We're getting them out," he said, "and then we'll make a decision."
This is pretty wild considering USAID is an extension of the state department, sits with the National Security Council, and closely works with the CIA. However you feel about USAID, the point of the org is to prevent humanitarian crises from becoming more expensive security issues.
If the argument is that the USAID is too left leaning, oh boy I can't imagine what they have in store.
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#8Without a law that says USAID can be shut down or reorganized (or not funded) it seems that this is pretty much by definition entirely illegal regardless of one's opinions about USAID.
Question to ponder: if Trump and Musk were hostile foreign agents, how would they behave differently?
They'd give money to Ecohealth Alliance and the Wuhan Institute of Virology to find new and exciting viruses for the CCP's bioweapon program.
Which USAID has already done.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Question to ponder: if Trump and Musk were hostile foreign agents, how would they behave differently?
They'd give money to Ecohealth Alliance and the Wuhan Institute of Virology to find new and exciting viruses for the CCP's bioweapon program. Which USAID has already done.
Even if that were true -- which until proven, it's not -- Trump and his henchmen do not have the authority to change it.
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#10Without a law that says USAID can be shut down or reorganized (or not funded) it seems that this is pretty much by definition entirely illegal regardless of one's opinions about USAID.
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