Summary
A Congressional Research Service report states Trump lacks the authority to abolish USAID, as congressional approval is required.
It explains that a 1998 law briefly allowed reorganization but expired in 1999. While past administrations have modified USAID’s functions, they consulted Congress.
Lawmakers are concerned about Trump’s executive order pausing foreign aid and potential USAID-State Department consolidation.
Meanwhile USAID’s employees are threatened and their servers seized by 20-somethings who refuse to give their name.
It boggles my mind how you can just…waltz into a government department with no legal basis, and people just comply.
Money is god
Well in this case the president is, and anyone in his service that he’d pardon.