[WaPo] Trump moves to wrest control of USAID as Musk says, ‘We’re shutting it down’

You dont think its dangerous and unnecessary that he has access to the whole U.S. Treasury? Bro, I know you cant think its a good idea the has has access to people's social security

 

The decision by Democrats not to hold a primary is an internal party matter. There is no law that mandates a primary must take place.

Shutting down USAID is arguably illegal. Congress is the body that can shut it down, not the executive. They are given the power to check the executive if it oversteps, but will they act?

 

figure of speech

 

People did vote for elon to cut down the executive branch. It was a campaign promise.

 

No aid for anybody cause we don’t have the money. Right.

 

(edited to be more consistent with this thread)

If Mr. Foreign-Born-Billionaire-Nobody-Voted-For has control of the US Treasury System, as reported, he could have access to all private data, including SSNs. There is no IG or other independent audit to check and ensure privacy and security, to prevent government data from being leaked or stolen, whether purposefully or through haste. Mr. Foreign-Born-Billionaire-Nobody-Voted-For moves fast and makes plenty of mistakes. This isn't exactly the person (and no single person is) you'd want handling large private data sets without assurance of protecting our data.

 

Dems now defending the orginization that funded covid.

 

I'll need a few more random tweets to convince me...

 

Someone knows, and knows well.

But no one outside of the internal team does, and there is no independent body to monitor to ensure the usual things that an IG ensures - compliance, legality, etc. It might eventually come out, but if not, no one will know exactly what happened. We may see the result, but we might not know why. Not having oversight removes the pressure to maintain compliance and legality.

 

It was run the same way under Republicans as well, including Trump. USAID was a strategic play. US withdrawing from the world won't save you money, but it will diminish our country's influence. This isn't a liberal vs conservative thing by the way. It shouldn't be. Ultimately, this will hurt your pocketbook.

 

Here's what I don't get about all this--

You're a Republican member of Congress. You've scratched and clawed your way to a sub-committee chair, a committee chair, a leadership position. You've done it all so you can wield power and influence the country. And now you sit back and give it all away with little if any fight to a guy who just bought his influence? You just do what you are told. You only rubber-stamp things. I can't believe these people would give away power so completely.

 

The fact you b****ed repeatedly about the democrats' primary and yet this doesn't bother you makes you look like someone not worth paying attention to.

 

The fact you b**** about trump hiring someone to audit spending by the executive branch shows you have no idea how the government works