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Save USAid, save lives."
Democrats were denied entry to the public lobby of the agency's headquarters by police blocking the doors as they joined around 50 demonstrators brandishing banners demanding
We don’t know whether Trump is irreparably changing the course of American government. We don’t know that yet,
Binder, the George Washington University professor, said
There’s a way to do this within the Constitution and the law. If you just rely on presidential unilateralism with a weak legal basis — congratulations, you’re creating a precedent,
Kosar saidEvery single bureaucrat has two masters — one is the president and one is the Congress,
Kamark saidIt’s only been two weeks. Only two and a half weeks of everything,
she said, referring to the new administrationPeople who share information with the federal government should not be forced to share information with Elon Musk or his ‘DOGE.’ And federal law says they do not have to,
read the complaint from the Alliance for Retired Americans, the American Federation of Government Employees and the Service Employees International UnionCertainly there’s this perception of — whether you call it a deep state or just a professional political class that has a liberal bent, that is embedded in the federal government,
he saidTrump is only going to be dissuaded by bond markets and stock markets reacting quite adversely, some broader public push against him and some set of legal constraints. Or Republicans on the Hill telling him it’s time to pare it back — not that I anticipate that happening too soon,
she saidAt the end of the day, if you just shut down every program in there, I think it’s a mistake, and I think it’ll have policy and political consequences,
he saidThere has been some expansion of presidential power over the years, but we’ve never had a president who had such an aggressive attempt at broadening executive power, and we should be fearful, because he is breaking all the long-established norms of shared powers that were in the Constitution,
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As we dug into USAID, it became apparent that what we have here is not an apple with a worm it in but that we have actually just a ball of worms. USAID is a ball of worms, there is no apple. And when there is no apple...you've just got to basically get rid of the whole thing. That is why it's got to go. It's beyond repair."
Billionaire and DOGE co-head Elon Musk said during an X Spaces stream early Monday
Dissolving USAID is not going to make America safer or stronger. Quite the contrary. For less than 1 percent of our GDP, the 50-year-old agency helps people around the world, over a billion people, with health care, education, agriculture, small businesses and other things. Making enemies out of over 100 countries and laying off 10,000 hard-working Americans isn't gonna help."
Another supporter, identified only as Kate, saidI work in international development and many of my colleagues in the US have now lost their jobs. The ripple effects of this for the American people and the global community are unimaginable. We as a country have always been a leader globally in humanitarian work and that great history will end."
Another supporter, Ashley, wroteUntil and unless this brazenly authoritarian action is reversed and USAID is functional again, I will be placing a blanket hold on all of the Trump administration's State Department nominees,
he said in a statementI'm the sole income earner and I'm the mom of four young kids,
she saidDemocrats 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_(cropped).jpg)
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
We don't have a fourth branch of government called Elon Musk."
Democratic Representative Jamie Raskin
Congressional Dems made fools of themselves today at the USAID protest."
Charles Downs, a reporter for Loomered, wrote on X
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."
CNN political commentator Van Jones