Via NPR:
A question of legality
The question of the legality of any attempt to change the status of USAID is connected to its origins. The agency was created in 1961 when President John F. Kennedy signed an executive order after Congress passed the Foreign Assistance Act, which mandated the creation of an independent agency to focus on development separate from politics and the military. The agency was formally established by Congress as an independent agency in 1998.
That means "it cannot just be undone, at this point, by an executive order," Konyndyk said. "To actually disestablish the agency and dissolve it into the State Department will take an act of Congress."
Source: Why does Musk want USAID 'to die'? And why did its website disappear? : Goats and Soda
I’m doubtful relying on congress is any comfort either however.
The perma stun proceeds
🎶 Just want one thing, just to play the king
But the castle's crumbled and you're left with just a name 🎵That’s awesome. One less headcount for federal budget.
Hahah you're right fuck people looool
USAID - that's just for funding CIA operations if I recall. they don't really do food and water help.
I actually don't mind this.
Nah it's mostly graft. A large amount of USAID's budget goes to DC consulting firms, while claiming it goes to developing countries.
But some of it did go to the developing world. Have to read through a lot of legalese to find the loopholes to avoid the money staying DC tho. I remember when I was doing work for NGOs in a developing country those computer cases with USAID stickers on them were kinda valuable for this reason. Getting money to buy a new computer was basically impossible, but you could get money from USAID to "upgrade" the computers with a new motherboard, CPU, RAM, hard drive, etc.
But any chance they'd get, they'd direct them money to DC consulting firms which would do very little.
USAID is corruption central and a job program for certain type of "american"
Wow, I guess I better get used to a ton of USA events and news per day for the next years.
It keeps burning the wick at this rate and you'll only have to deal with it for months
Probably not. Sooner rather than later most free press will be shut down by trump and the only news that anyone will get is whatever there government wants you to hear. Stories like this will disappear.
That's already the case.
Do you remember every single mainstream outlet falling in line to promote the Iraq war? To blackout the antiwar protests? Going to Occupy Wallstreet and interviewing random weirdos instead of the organizer's designated press people? The coverage of Ukraine? The coverage of Israel?
Nah the free press like the billionaires and everyone else who wants to stay in business will lick Trump's balls.
What was USAid?
Also you can read this link if you accept a more opinionated article:
Did a Trump executive order just cripple the global US regime change network?
A branch of the state department that sows dissent and destabilizes countries that don't bend the knee to the US.
It provided funding to Ukraine, Irsael, and Egypt among other things.
Now it provides funding to Israel and Egypt.
And soon to Russia.
It's a CIA front that mascarades as an aid organisation. Part of the US' soft power projection. I'm guessing for all their talk about hating China, they're really keen on China taking on the role the US has been playing since WWII, as they're simultaneously doing their best to undermine the US dollar as the global reserve currency.
You think that the CIA pretends to be an international aid organization for the sake of advancing the interests of checks notes... China? The 3-letter agency that has spent decades building and maintaining American hegemony is now serving that same purpose for a rival nation? And the people that have also spent decades building for this moment to take over the federal government entirely... want to now give their power away? ... what?
How does this have 36 votes? It's ridiculous.
State Department regime change operationan aid organization.
It is far easier to knock something down than to bring something up.
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Fun fact, they're still providing USAID funding to Israel and Egypt but stopped providing funding to Ukraine.
Trump executive order requiring the state and all state-funded education institutes to not acknowledge Ukrainian as a language separate from Russian coming in 3...
lmao Trump accidentally defunding US soft power. Who is going to pay the CIA to train torturers and traffic drugs now?
Is it an accident?
Trump (and specifically, the heritage foundation) believe in isolationism. Alienating its geopolitical and geographical neighbors serves that purpose. Think of it as the groundwork for a full North Korea style break from non-state controlled culture.
In 2016, Trump's issue with Libya was that we didn't send troops in to steal their oil, and then make a deal with whatever faction was willing to sell us the oil cheaply. Same with Iraq. You're are wildly overestimating his moral character if you think he is trying to dismantle the american empire.
Really silly question tbh. Trafficking drugs pays for itself and the torture. The CIA may be the only government agency making a net profit.
