by
Sarah Fortinsky - 02/06/25
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Sen.
Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Wednesday some of
the bold steps that billionaire tech entrepreneur
Elon Musk has taken to tackle waste in the federal government are “illegal.”
“Nothing wrong with looking for waste in the kinds of bureaucracy that exist. I think we can do a whole lot to get rid of the waste, the fraud, the excessive bureaucracy that exists in government — especially, by the way, in the Defense Department,” Sanders said Wednesday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360.”
“What is wrong right now is one simple reality:
What Musk is doing is illegal and unconstitutional,” Sanders added.
“You cannot go into an agency like USAID and essentially fire everybody and get rid of that agency,” Sanders said. “That’s an agency that was created by Congress.”
“They want to get rid of USAID? Fine. Come to the Congress. Make your case,” he continued. “You can’t do it unilaterally.”
“You tell me whether or not we are living in an oligarchy,” Sanders said. “And I think the function of government under Trump, under Elon Musk, will not be to serve ordinary people, but to make the very richest people in this country even richer.”
Comment:
Trump is not "firing everyone" and "getting rid of USAID"
Trump is using his executive authority to reform USAID.
The president has an obligation to protect the Taxpayer's money from the being wasted, stolen and abused.
This might be going to the courts.