The level of panic over Trump and Elon shutting down USAID is unlike anything he’s ever seen.

[DonGlock26]

Yes, so it is still active.

You should actually read the news articles.

 

[Moonglow]

You should actually read the news articles.

They can be revived after the Trump cancer has died.

 

[DonGlock26]

They can be revived after the Trump cancer has died.

 

[Moonglow]

Trump the incel is just jerking chains.

 

[DonGlock26]

Trump the incel is just jerking chains.

Yours apparently

 

[SeaMajor7]

Congress has the only authority to shut it down, it has been given to the state department.

Congress did NOT establish USAID, stupid.

 

[luiza]

You sound like a Russian spy.

More like a doddery old man out of touch with today's world .

 

[Moonglow]

Congress did NOT establish USAID, stupid.

here you go cock sucker.

Because Congress established USAID as an independent establishment (defined in 5 U.S.C. 104) within the executive branch, the President does not have the authority to abolish it; congressional authorization would be required to abolish, move, or consolidate USAID.

USAID Under the Trump Administration - CRS Reports​

 

[hadit]

The range of activities it undertakes is vast. For example, not only does USAID provide food in countries where people are starving, it also operates the world's gold-standard famine detection system, which uses data analysis to try to predict where food shortages are emerging.

USAID in turmoil as Trump and Musk aim to shut down aid agency
Much of USAID's budget is spent on health programmes, such as offering polio vaccinations in countries where the disease still circulates and helping to stop the spread of viruses which have the potential to cause a pandemic.



Imagine that
Trump is killing a program that provides famine relief, healthcare, polio vaccines to save lives

He's simply moving it under State control, where its expenditures can be better monitored and challenged. You do want that, right?

 

[Moonglow]

A felon convicted of fraud certainly does know fraud when he sees it, no evidence to share but he knows it.


“Not when it comes to fraud. If there’s fraud, these people are lunatics,” Trump said when asked by CNN’s Jeff Zeleny about his capacity to exact major changes to USAID. “We just want to do the right thing. It’s something that should have been done a long time ago.”

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/03/politics/usaid-trump-congress-legal/index.html

Notice the words Trumps uses he states, "if there's fraud", evidently he doesn't know a damn thing he is just projecting lies again.

 

[SeaMajor7]

here you go cock sucker.

Because Congress established USAID as an independent establishment (defined in 5 U.S.C. 104) within the executive branch, the President does not have the authority to abolish it; congressional authorization would be required to abolish, move, or consolidate USAID.

USAID Under the Trump Administration - CRS Reports​

It's OVER for the Marxist unaccountable slush-fund.
It was a COMPLETELY LAWLESS SCANDLE that is now DEAD.
No condolences for you.

 

[Lisa558]

He's simply moving it under State control, where its expenditures can be better monitored and challenged. You do want that, right?

I thought USAID was always under the State Department? Why shouldn’t it be?

 

[hadit]

I thought USAID was always under the State Department? Why shouldn’t it be?

It should have been, but hasn't. It's going to be merged into State, which is why the chicken littles running around complaining about cuts in humanitarian services are out to lunch. What's going to happen is oversight and much tighter controls on spending, which is, after all, the goal.

 

[Lisa558]

It should have been, but hasn't. It's going to be merged into State, which is why the chicken littles running around complaining about cuts in humanitarian services are out to lunch. What's going to happen is oversight and much tighter controls on spending, which is, after all, the goal.

Great news. That agency was throwing away our money hand over first on all sort of work nonsense while spending tons of our money on themselves.

 

[Lisa558]

It should have been, but hasn't. It's going to be merged into State, which is why the chicken littles running around complaining about cuts in humanitarian services are out to lunch. What's going to happen is oversight and much tighter controls on spending, which is, after all, the goal.

Are you good at math? They have 10,000 employees. Figuring an annual compensation cost of $80,000, how much would that be?

Asking for a friend.

 

[hadit]

Are you good at math? They have 10,000 employees. Figuring an annual compensation cost of $80,000, how much would that be?

Asking for a friend.

That depends on how many of the FTE's would be carried over to State. Inevitably, there will be jobs cut, as positions become redundant any time two large business entities merge. This is one reason why the federal government is so inefficient, each department has to have its own duplicative staff, IT, infrastructure, office space, etc. and that all costs money.

 

[Lisa558]

That depends on how many of the FTE's would be carried over to State. Inevitably, there will be jobs cut, as positions become redundant any time two large business entities merge. This is one reason why the federal government is so inefficient, each department has to have its own duplicative staff, IT, infrastructure, office space, etc. and that all costs money.

Yes, I worked for the Feds for one year, but I was so fed up with the redundancy, waste, incompetence, and abuse that I quit. We just wasted time for hours a day, and could have easily done with half the staff.

 

[hadit]

Yes, I worked for the Feds for one year, but I was so fed up with the redundancy, waste, incompetence, and abuse that I quit. We just wasted time for hours a day, and could have easily done with half the staff.

I think that's why the panic over giving Musk a figurative axe. He's well known for eliminating wasteful positions. There's a new sheriff in town and they're scared.

 

[Lisa558]

I think that's why the panic over giving Musk a figurative axe. He's well known for eliminating wasteful positions. There's a new sheriff in town and they're scared.

That’s also why Trump picked him for the job.

And for the first time in their lives, government workers are learning what the rest of us know - that when you work for a company going more and more into debt every year, budgets are cut and staff is terminated.

You should have seen it here in Libtown the last few years. While regular Americans were struggling to put food on the table and come up with the rent, overpaid and entitled government workers were having 2-hour lunches at expensive steak restaurants, going on ski trips and beach vacations, taking tennis lessons, etc. - all without taking leave.

instead, they said they were “working for home” - and bragging how they got their day’s work done in a few hours. Well, news flash: when staff only has a few hours of work a day, AND the company is losing money, redundancies in staff are eliminated.

I always thought there was a big problem with government workers being exempt from the consequences of government policies.

 

[hadit]

That’s also why Trump picked him for the job.

And for the first time in their lives, government workers are learning what the rest of us know - that when you work for a company going more and more into debt every year, budgets are cut and staff is terminated.

You should have seen it here in Libtown the last few years. While regular Americans were struggling to put food on the table and come up with the rent, overpaid and entitled government workers were having 2-hour lunches at expensive steak restaurants, going on ski trips and beach vacations, taking tennis lessons, etc. - all without taking leave.

instead, they said they were “working for home” - and bragging how they got their day’s work done in a few hours. Well, news flash: when staff only has a few hours of work a day, AND the company is losing money, redundancies in staff are eliminated.

I always thought there was a big problem with government workers being exempt from the consequences of government policies.

I do see the prevailing opinion in Washington seems to be more focused on keeping jobs than to provide value for expenditures. Maybe that's why so many on the left think businesses exist to provide jobs, not make money.