Congressional Office Says Trump Has No Authority to Dismantle USAID

https://www.commondreams.org/news/usaid-trump-congressional-research-service

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  1. >U.S. President Donald Trump does not have the authority to abolish the U.S. Agency for International Development, according to a [Congressional Research Service report](https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IN/IN12500)
    published Monday, which noted that congressional authorization is needed to “abolish, move, or consolidate” the humanitarian assistance agency.

  2. Ok then do something about it.

    Telling trump what he can’t or can do doesn’t matter. He needs to be forced.

  3. My cat does not have the authority to break things, but they still do.

    Letters and warnings don’t work this time around.

  4. “You can’t do that, it’s illegal.”
    “Stop me.”
    “He’s got us there…”

  5. But he owns the courts and the republican led congress is too afraid to cross him and president mush so here we are

  8. Ah, the good old strongly worded letter of condemnation, the fascist’s one weakness

  9. How about the authority to sell off half of federal property like he’s just announced? This is a fire sale for oligarchs to pick up cheap.

  10. This is part of Trump’s political stunt ( smoke screen to evoke an action/ he’s not stupid. Every one of his rhetorical statements are planned for a reaction) . To cause a constitutional crisis. get political groups or Congress to take him to Supreme Court to rule in how much power he can exercise. Trump knows he created his perfect Supreme Court to rule in his favor. Thus he now has control over the Judicial branch(To expand the executive branch which will legitimize his excessive power)Point Trump’s trying to expand his power, the Executive branch which is to over rule Congress. This rhetoric is to force someone’s hand to get him in front of the court to rule in his favor. Then Congress can’t do shix to stop him.

  11. Well, clearly he does, otherwise *literally anything* would be done to stop him

  12. Aw what’s that? Republican congresspeople don’t actually want to surrender their constitutional power of the purse to an unelected billionaire foreigner? Guess you guys are all DEIs now. Take em away, boys!

  13. He has no authority to do most of what he has done, but that isn’t going to stop him. I can’t get over how shortsighted it was for Congress to hand the Treasury over to the executive branch.

    Oh, and USAID will be completely dismantled before anyone can do anything about it. Trump and Musk are running around DC with flame throwers and no one is fast enough to keep up with them. Put one fire out, and 6 more are in its place.

  14. Cool story, Bro! Now get off your fat arss and start arresting people who are breaking the law. If I did stuff like that, I’d be thrown in prison for life!

  15. >Trump Has No Authority to Dismantle USAID

    I suppose it depends on your definition of “authority.”
    Or maybe your definition of “no”

  16. So, if the president can do what ever he wants, what is the point of congress again?

  19. Yea, he shouldn’t have had authority to run, either, after inciting an insurrection and stealing/hoarding a bunch of the government’s classified documents at his house. But here we are. Laws are only real if they’re enforced.

  20. None of these morons has ever read the constitution. The whole bunch around trump are ignorant and clueless about our government. They don’t even know how to legislate. Executive orders are very limited in scope.

  21. This Just In: Trump to sign EO to abolish Congressional research Office. Musk to send his goons in the next day and steal all the data there and kick out all the employees

  22. This will end up in court along with a million other things he is doing.

  23. > “A dog can’t play basketball!” he complained, while clutching the rule book, as the dog dunked on his team over and over again.

  24. Cool story bro, but he’s going to and no one is going to stop him. We have no guardrails left. There are no checks and balances. We’re fucked.

  25. Trump didn’t dismantle it. The unelected, non-nominated, unconfirmed plutocrat did.

    Trump does this shit all the time. He did the same shit with the Russia collusion shit. Sure, he’s involved. But you’ll never find his fingerprints on it, and so you’ll never actually be able to pin it on him as a crime. Same with Musk. He *said* he was going to put him in charge of DOGE. But as of this moment, DOGE doesn’t even rightfully exist, and Elon hasn’t even been nominated to run anything officially.

    You’ll be able to put Elon away, the same way we got Rudy. But this shit’ll never stick to Trump.

  26. Duh. Now do something about it! It’s weird how many of our elected officials and formal federal offices are telling folks like me that criminal activity is afoot. Yes, we see that. YOU’RE the folks who were elected/hired to take action. So chop-chop, let’s move it along, shall we??

  27. JFC, people don’t understand, they’re still talking about the rules. Elon Musk has a kill switch for America. The Nazis won. It’s over. If you have the resources and the opportunity get out now. 

  28. And apparently nobody has any authority to stop him. He is proving that our oversight and “checks and balances” do not exist and our justice system is toothless. All of it is a lie. If you are rich, there are no rules and no accountability. Rich people can commit treason, incite violent insurrection, steal government secrets, molest women and break into “secure” government facilities without any repercussion.

  30. Congress won’t do anything. They are spineless.

    Trump is sort of a blessing because he shines light on how bad our government is. Love him or hate him our elected officials can’t and won’t do a damn thing. Trump is teaching us this.

    This is basically how I see things now with Trump the first time and this time around. No matter how bad you think he is, he is teaching us a valuable lesson about our government.

  31. Are we going to have to keep reading about how trump has no authority to do this, doing that is illegal, blah blah, while he is LITERALLY FUCKING DOING IT ALL

  32. Hilarious to me that people think USAID is some tree-hugging institution, when really what it is is something like the US saying “we’ll give you $1M in humanitarian aid in exchange for a little cobalt mining” where the cobalt mining is worth $1B. We don’t provide that aid out of the goodness of our hearts, we provide it to get something more valuable in exchange.

  33. For 60 years I thought that “checks and balances” was a thing. A thing that usually worked.
    I vacillate between being a weak and sad old lady, and being a pissed off and loud force of nature.

  34. But then says it does have the power to not use any of the fund assigned to USAID.

  38. Are these posts of screen caps showing funding going to ridiculous things all misinformation?

  39. No shit Sherlock!! It’s about time for the GOP stop this shit now.

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