This is an INCREDIBLY bad idea.
#6 | POSTED BY TRUTHHURTS

I don't think is, I believe an organization created from an EO is a problem. It has no congressional oversight.

Some countries know that when USAID comes knocking so does corruption.

The $50 billion is a drop in the bucket compared to what we get back in return

What exactly does the US get in return for sending money to Burisma, BBC, US journalists?

Its appears to be a money laundering scheme.

Aid to foreign countries that are developing/poor should be considered an investment.

Why not use the State Department? As opposed to an EO created organization?

Why not have congressional oversight over the money spent?

The reason Elon can go in there and destroy it, is because there is not congressional authority for it.

How do Americans not even understand their own system?

Especially someone running around calling others "morons", its hilarious.

Well let's start with the fact that ------- doesn't have the legal authority to do it

From what I understand, POTUS, has the authority to close programs that aren't specifically stated in Congressional USAID appropriations.

POTUS cannot dissolve USAID, and cannot terminate programs explicitly stated by appropriations.

What Musk and his team have determined is that USAID has granted money to programs, given to it by the US Treas. These programs that are not appropriated by Congress. These can be terminated by the Executive branch.

Whats interesting is the CRs congress have passed has led to USAID just spending without any oversight by Congress or the Executive branch.

Those days appear to be over, at least in the short term.

I don't see it as alot of money as people are claiming, but its a sort of cleaning house. Whats amazing looking at all this is how many donor advised funds get government USAID money, and how its just a web of graft, not really doing anything other then skimming money and paying it forward.

Here's a good break down ...

Here are examples of non appropriated "grants", its perfectly within POTUS to close these, as it was for POTUS (Biden) to create these.

$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.

The Executive Branch is obligated to enforce and appoint agents to execute the laws passed by Congress.
Does Pres Trump's EO abide by what was passed by Congress? or is he trying to unilaterally change those laws?

He's able to stop the flow, to ascertain the legitimacy of every grant. Which is his duty to follow Congress's appropriations, to make sure the money outgoing is appropriated by Congress.

If its not appropriated by Congress, then its within his authority, granted by the constitution, to cancel grants that he disapproves.

Lumpers: "Democracy dies in darkness."

Musk: "Okay well let's shine a light on all the USAID spending then."

Lumpers: "No not like that."

You don't seem to understand what USAID is. I doubt you know what the acronym even represents.

#119 | Posted by YAV

Like most governmental agencies/laws, its name is what it does.

Mostly because ita been co-opted by ideological employees.