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Well, if we allow you access to this information, it gets into the wrong hands, we can sue you,
They even responded back with a letter that was basically threatening us by saying ... the Republican said
What we found out was that the NICRA rates were upwards of 50 to 60 percent and that doesn't include the cost that the subcontractors were adding on, which means, if you look at it from that perspective, maybe only 40 percent of the dollars that we're sending in humanitarian aid actually result in
Ernst shared of her findingsLet's reorganize, let's trim back, and let's make sure that if there are good programs, they get funded, if there is waste and abuse, that it gets done away with,
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Live by executive order, die by executive order,
Musk said on X Saturday in reference to USAID
This is not about getting rid of foreign aid. There are things that we do through USAID that we should continue to do, that makes sense. And we’ll have to decide is that better through the State Department, or is that better through something, a reformed USAID?”
Speaking to Fox News on Monday, Rubio said
I don’t know, I don’t think so … we just want to do the right thing.”
Asked Monday about whether it would take an act of Congress to abolish USAID, Trump saidNobody anticipated” that Trump would suspend most foreign aid “and then decapitate USAID of its personnel,
said Ingram, now a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a Washington-based think tankThe Trump administration has just put America last, while handing a gift to our biggest adversaries, notably China,
he wroteYou’ve got to basically get rid of the whole thing. It’s beyond repair,
he saidIf you don’t get involved in the world and you don’t have programs in Africa where China’s trying to buy the whole continent, we’re making a mistake,
he saidAmerica’s alliances will suffer. U.S. partners will be at risk. And America’s enemies will rejoice,
he saidElon can’t do and won’t do anything without our approval. We’ll give him the approval where appropriate; where not appropriate, we won’t. But he reports in, and it’s something that he feels very strongly about,
Trump added
This is a constitutional crisis that we are in today,
Raskin addedThe Department of State and other pertinent entities will be consulting with Congress and the appropriate committees to reorganize and absorb certain bureaus, offices, and missions of USAID,
Rubio wroteWe are shutting [USAID] down."
Musk also said on X, the social media platform he ownsCan the President, via executive order, either abolish USAID or fold it into the State Department? And that raises some really serious questions about the reach of executive authority."
On Fox2, Levinson, asked about this latest move from the President and Musk
[There ... There is a] Clinton-era law that basically says when it comes to really big structural changes to USAID then you need to go to Congress, and you can't do it alone, Mr President."
Levinson addedDemocrats in Congress, NGO's they funded via USAID, USAID employees and the media are currently protesting outside of the USAID office that President Trump shut down. Look at the anti-DOGE sign. They're literally protesting against an efficient government and an end to fraud."
Filmmaker Robby Starbuck wrote
People are going to die in very large numbers around the world who are expecting the United States to live up to our promises to get them medicine, to get them help... Donald Trump says we don't care. You go die."
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Watch panicked Democrats surround the USAID headquarters in DC in a desperate attempt to stop Elon Musk's ongoing discovery of their mass theft of public funds."
Alex Jones, the conspiracy theorist and right-wing commentator, posted on X