Sanders: ‘What Musk is doing is illegal’

[TroglocratsRdumb]

Sanders is correct. Elmo is GUTTING an agency created by Congress. The Executive can not do that.

This agency had 4,000 employees. Elmo has cut it to less than 300.

well that is outrageous
there should only be about 50 left

 

[justoffal]

well that is outrageous
there should only be about 50 left

Contrary to the lying media apparently Rubio insisted that all of the staff associated with critical shipments stay on and continue the critical shipments. Hopefully they inspect to make sure there aren't any drugs, weapons or bundles of cash being shipped along with it like the Red Cross has been doing.

 

[Blaster]

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5130245-sanders-musk-doge-oligarchy/

by Sarah Fortinsky - 02/06/25
[snippet]
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.

BWA HA HA HA

 

[justoffal]

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5130245-sanders-musk-doge-oligarchy/

by Sarah Fortinsky - 02/06/25
[snippet]
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.

Of course he's outraged he's about to be caught.

 

[Seymour Flops]

Musk is an idiot, totally out of his depth pretending to be a manager.

A competent manager would have assessed these and other factors and risks and then planned a path to reduction and increased efficiency, Musk - like Trump - has no management skills he's just showing off because Trump gave him power, so we see inexcusable idiocy like this.

Musk doesn't plan because he has no idea how to plan and nor does Trump, these men are idiots and only fool idiots unfortunately the United States has a hell of a lot of idiots.

This is the cost of Musk and Trump's decision making, half a billion dollars of tax payers money simply lost, thrown away by fools.

By the way trumpanzees, don't bother trying to "explain" how this is someone else's fault, how this waste is the fault of the democrats, I will simply ignore you, your all fools anyway.

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Nearly $500m of food aid at risk of spoilage after Trump USAid cuts

US government auditors find cuts have ‘degraded USAid’s ability to distribute and safeguard humanitarian assistance’

www.theguardian.com

I guess they should have spent some of that LGBT opera money on having this food shipped out.

If USAID were doing humanitarian stuff without all the hundreds of millions for woke nonsense OR if they had not tried to sneak money out the door even after Trump took office and told them to put a hold on it, while we get a handle on it, this might not be an issue.

BTW, what exactly is this highly perishable food that USAID is storing in warehouses? Because one of the main things you look for in humanitarian food assistance is that the food be suitable for transportation across great distances, in all kinds of weather, and long-term storage while it is distributed.

I think this story is nonsense. I'm sure the USAID sold that BS to journalists, who were eager to lap it up with no vetting.

 

[LAUGHatLEFTISTS]

Sanders is correct. Elmo is GUTTING an agency created by Congress. The Executive can not do that.

This agency had 4,000 employees. Elmo has cut it to less than 300.

Typical leftists. You never stopped to think WHY USAIDD has 4,000 employees.

 

[justoffal]

I guess they should have spent some of that LGBT opera money on having this food shipped out.

If USAID were doing humanitarian stuff without all the hundreds of millions for woke nonsense OR if they had not tried to sneak money out the door even after Trump took office and told them to put a hold on it, while we get a handle on it, this might not be an issue.

BTW, what exactly is this highly perishable food that USAID is storing in warehouses? Because one of the main things you look for in humanitarian food assistance is that the food be suitable for transportation across great distances, in all kinds of weather, and long-term storage while it is distributed.

I think this story is nonsense. I'm sure the USAID sold that BS to journalists, who were eager to lap it up with no vetting.

Send the food to North Carolina.... After that there are at least a thousand veterans shelters around the country that could use that food in their kitchens. That of course would prevent them from sending the other stuff that's probably packed in with that shit including weapons cash and drugs.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

this what government reform looks like

 

[justoffal]

I guess they should have spent some of that LGBT opera money on having this food shipped out.

If USAID were doing humanitarian stuff without all the hundreds of millions for woke nonsense OR if they had not tried to sneak money out the door even after Trump took office and told them to put a hold on it, while we get a handle on it, this might not be an issue.

BTW, what exactly is this highly perishable food that USAID is storing in warehouses? Because one of the main things you look for in humanitarian food assistance is that the food be suitable for transportation across great distances, in all kinds of weather, and long-term storage while it is distributed.

I think this story is nonsense. I'm sure the USAID sold that BS to journalists, who were eager to lap it up with no vetting.

Yeah same thing I was thinking.... I saw pictures of 100 lb rice bags and 100 lb flower bags .
Dry goods like that can sit for months or even years. Maybe they would be concerned with rodent infestation? The idea that it's perishable goods is completely ridiculous. That would mean it would be required to be shipped by a refrigerated container. I'm sure the milk is powdered and so are the eggs. I would also highly recommend scanning everything for metallic objects like weapons or pharmaceutical objects like drugs or even paper objects like bundles of cash.

 

[Rogue AI]

The silver lining to these activist judges violating the Constitution is that liberals have forgotten to whine about their gang members, child sex traffickers, and other alien scum being deported as we speak.

 

[Lesh]

Typical leftists. You never stopped to think WHY USAIDD has 4,000 employees.

Because it’s a big organization jackass

 

[ThisIsMe]

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5130245-sanders-musk-doge-oligarchy/

by Sarah Fortinsky - 02/06/25
[snippet]
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.

The agency was indeed created by congress, but there is no mandate as to how many people must be employed. As long as the agency exists, it's not running afoul of congress.

Example, irs was created from a congressional act, and biden wanted to hire 86000 more agents. Did he need a congressional act to do so? No. People are hired and fired all the time from these agencies.

What Elon did, under authority from trump, was not illegal.

 

[LAUGHatLEFTISTS]

Because it’s a big organization jackass

We need 4000 people to give our money away?

 

[scruffy]

Sanders is correct. Elmo is GUTTING an agency created by Congress. The Executive can not do that.

Yes, it can.

And it is.

There is plenty of precedent.

This agency had 4,000 employees. Elmo has cut it to less than 300.

Excellent. Let's shoot for 100 or less.

 

[Modern Messiah]

Musk is an idiot, totally out of his depth pretending to be a manager.

A competent manager would have assessed these and other factors and risks and then planned a path to reduction and increased efficiency, Musk - like Trump - has no management skills he's just showing off because Trump gave him power, so we see inexcusable idiocy like this.

Musk doesn't plan because he has no idea how to plan and nor does Trump, these men are idiots and only fool idiots unfortunately the United States has a hell of a lot of idiots.

This is the cost of Musk and Trump's decision making, half a billion dollars of tax payers money simply lost, thrown away by fools.

By the way trumpanzees, don't bother trying to "explain" how this is someone else's fault, how this waste is the fault of the democrats, I will simply ignore you, your all fools anyway.

View attachment 1077133

Nearly $500m of food aid at risk of spoilage after Trump USAid cuts

US government auditors find cuts have ‘degraded USAid’s ability to distribute and safeguard humanitarian assistance’

www.theguardian.com

And there ya go folks!
Another episode of lefties loosing it
The disrespectful spending of tax payers dollars is 100% the fault of leftist bureaucracies.
Take a look at the endless list of corrupt expenditures (money laundering) that have now come to light thanks to DOGE.
DOGE may be one of the best things President Trump has done for The American People.

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

And there ya go folks!
Another episode of lefties loosing it
The disrespectful spending of tax payers dollars is 100% the fault of leftist bureaucracies.
Take a look at the endless list of corrupt expenditures (money laundering) that have now come to light thanks to DOGE.
DOGE may be one of the best things President Trump has done for The American People.

You need to get out more, its ridiculous that adults rely on Twitter or Newsmax as their source of news.

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

Send it to North Carolina it won't spoil

That costs money, so ain't gonna happen.

 

[Modern Messiah]

You need to get out more, its ridiculous that adults rely on Twitter or Newsmax as their source of news.

You should probably cover your eyes and ears for the next four years or so.
Reality is not your friend.
Tell us how great cornpop and cackles are again.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Sanders needs another, longer honeymoon in the Soviet Union.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Nope.

International Aid in the 1960s: An Agency is Born​

In 1961, President Kennedy signed the Foreign Assistance Act into law and created USAID by executive order. Once USAID got to work, international development assistance opportunities grew tremendously. The time during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations became known as the “decade of development.”

USAID History | Archive - U.S. Agency for International Development

When the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) was created, it brought together several existing foreign assistance organizations and programs. Until then, there had never been a single agency charged with foreign economic development, so with the passage of the Foreign...

2012-2017.usaid.gov

"Gut?" An imprecise term, at best.

The president can eliminate by executive order any agency created by a previous president by executive order.

If USAID were an agency created by congress, (which it is not) the president could still take exective action to stop and investigate wasteful and abusive practices.

You know . . . like this:

Chairman Mast Exposes Outrageous USAID and State Department Grants - Committee on Foreign Affairs

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast released the following video exposing radical, far-left grants issued by the State Department and United States Agency for International Development under the Biden administration. WATCH HERE Democrats and...

foreignaffairs.house.gov

(From Congress!)

$15 million for condoms to the Taliban through USAID.

$446,700 to promote the expansion of atheism in Nepal through the State Department.

$1 million to boost French-speaking LGBTQ groups in West and Central Africa through the State Department.

$14 million in cash vouchers for migrants at the southern border through the State Department.

$20,600 for a drag show in Ecuador through the State Department.

$47,020 for a transgender opera in Colombia through the State Department.

$32,000 for an LGBTQ-centered comic book in Peru through the State Department.

$55,750 for a climate change presentation warning about the impact of climate change in Argentina to be led by female and LGBT journalists through the StateDepartment.

$3,315,446 for “being LGBTQ in the Caribbean” through USAID.

$7,071.58 for a BIPOC speaker series in Canada through the State Department.

$80,000 for an LGBTQ community center in Bratislava, Slovakia through the State Department.

$3.2 million to help Tunisian migrants readjust to life in Tunisia after deportation through the State Department.

$16,500 to foster a “united and equal queer-feminist discourse in Albanian society” through the State Department.

$10,000 to pressure Lithuanian corporations to promote “DEI values” through the State Department.

$8,000 to promote DEI among LGBTQ groups in Cyprus through the State Department.

$1.5 million to promote job opportunities for LGBTQ individuals in Serbia through USAID.

$70,884 to create a U.S.-Irish musical to promote DEI in Ireland through the State Department.

$39,652 to host seminars at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on gender identity and racial equality through the State Department.

$2.5 million to build electric vehicle charging stations in Vietnam’s largest cities through USAID.

$425,622 to help Indonesian coffee companies become more climate and gender friendly through USAID.



Sounds about right for now. More cuts to come if those three hundred do not demonstrate their value to the taxpayers of the United States.

How many of the 3,700 being cut were "working from home?"

Notice how none of that "aid" was food distribution. That's because USAID doesn't do food distribution. Degenerate Democrats made it up.