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I think he has the authority to make sure that it’s running correctly. As you’ve seen from Secretary Rubio’s statements, they’ve been trying for months and years to get information about how the money is being spent,
I’m comfortable with USAID doing a top-to-bottom shift,
Additionally, USAID's systems and processes are not well synthesized, integrated, or coordinated, and often result in discord in the foreign policy and foreign relations of the United States. This undermines the President's ability to carry out foreign relations,
They are taking an appropriate effort to try to make sure that the taxpayer dollars are being used wisely,
If the agency is reopened, then we can start acting like adults and have a negotiation. But right now, they’ve illegally shut down foreign aid,
I'm very concerned about Mr. Musk, or any of his assistants, going into federal agencies and demanding personal information on employees. I'm not sure where the authority of that would come from,
Collins said, speaking to reporters on Monday evening This is no way to govern, this is no way to treat public servants. This is no way for us to conduct our foreign policy as a country,
Kim said, speaking to reporters outside the USAID headquarters If there is an opportunity to look at reform, I’m all ears,
Schatz told reporters on Monday Tone deaf Democrats are LIVID. They want to ship your tax dollars abroad. President Trump wants to put America first,
All of those things are congressional because that’s all law,
A combination of Article One and Article Two powers of the Congress have been interpreted very clearly by the US Supreme Court and by all of the congressional mandates that have come since then to understand that it is Congress’ ability to create and to abolish agencies and offices,
This administration has said that they want to radically reshape the US government bureaucracy in multiple different ways. And here, the aid agencies of the United States are among the weakest of those agencies politically,
If he’s successful here … this won’t be the last agency that the president tries this way,
We are going to fight, in every way we can – in the courts, in public opinion, with the bully pulpit, in the halls of Congress.”
Gerry Connolly, the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, similarly blasted Trump’s plans, saying We’re not talking about the Department of Defense – yet. We’re not even talking about the Department of Education – yet,
We’re really in uncharted territory here,
said CNN Supreme Court analyst and Georgetown University of Law professor Steve Vladeck If there are entities that have signed contracts with USAID – they might have a breach of contract claim,
They went totally crazy, what they were doing and the money they were giving to people that shouldn’t be getting it and to agencies and others that shouldn’t be getting it, it was a shame, so a tremendous fraud,
Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Monday There is a reason that USAID is an arm of American foreign policy, and it is because we understand that a stable world means a stable America,
Elon Musk may get to be dictator of Tesla, and he may try to play dictator here in Washington DC, but he doesn't get to shut down the Agency for International Development,
