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Victor Davis Hanson....he is the man who can explain things so clearly only leftists and democrats won't understand...
Here are some of the untruths told about Elon Musk and DOGE:
"Musk has no right to cut USAID."
Elon Musk and his team are not cutting any federal programs.
They are auditors. They were given legal authority under a presidential executive order creating the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
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Like hundreds of government officials, Musk was appointed by an elected president to run an agency that does not require Senate confirmation.
Musk is as legally legitimate as the national security advisor and his National Security Council, none of whom require Senate confirmation.
Does the left believe former national security advisor Jake Sullivan, who made decisions far more pivotal than Musk, had no authority to do so because he too was neither elected nor confirmed by the Senate?
"It is a dangerous precedent to give a private citizen billionaire like Musk so much power."
In fact, Musk has far more legal authority than did FDR's best friend Harry Hopkins. Hopkins moved into the White House and de facto set U.S. foreign assistance policies toward Stalin's Russia.
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Foreign aid, which in all its manifestations in various cabinets and agencies is reaching nearly $80 billion per year, is not ending.
One of its distribution centers, USAID, may be vastly curtailed or bundled into the State Department. But the important bulk grants to allies like Israel or friends like Egypt or aid in times of famine relief and natural disasters to the needy abroad will remain. And these programs will be strengthened and saved precisely because they will be trimmed of skimmers and scammers.
"It is illegal to end USAID."
USAID was created by an executive order in 1961 by then President John F. Kennedy in response to congressional legislation codifying foreign aid and allowing the president to execute the statute at his discretion.
townhall.com
Here are some of the untruths told about Elon Musk and DOGE:
"Musk has no right to cut USAID."
Elon Musk and his team are not cutting any federal programs.
They are auditors. They were given legal authority under a presidential executive order creating the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
------
Like hundreds of government officials, Musk was appointed by an elected president to run an agency that does not require Senate confirmation.
Musk is as legally legitimate as the national security advisor and his National Security Council, none of whom require Senate confirmation.
Does the left believe former national security advisor Jake Sullivan, who made decisions far more pivotal than Musk, had no authority to do so because he too was neither elected nor confirmed by the Senate?
"It is a dangerous precedent to give a private citizen billionaire like Musk so much power."
In fact, Musk has far more legal authority than did FDR's best friend Harry Hopkins. Hopkins moved into the White House and de facto set U.S. foreign assistance policies toward Stalin's Russia.
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Foreign aid, which in all its manifestations in various cabinets and agencies is reaching nearly $80 billion per year, is not ending.
One of its distribution centers, USAID, may be vastly curtailed or bundled into the State Department. But the important bulk grants to allies like Israel or friends like Egypt or aid in times of famine relief and natural disasters to the needy abroad will remain. And these programs will be strengthened and saved precisely because they will be trimmed of skimmers and scammers.
"It is illegal to end USAID."
USAID was created by an executive order in 1961 by then President John F. Kennedy in response to congressional legislation codifying foreign aid and allowing the president to execute the statute at his discretion.
Mythologies About Musk
townhall.com
