"Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland called it an "illegal power grab" and said it was "a corrupt abuse of power that is going on."
"It's not only a gift to our adversaries, but trying to shut down the Agency for International Development by executive order is plain illegal," the Maryland senator said."
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"But Trump's claim that he can single handedly shut down USAID is at odds with Congress' distinct role in forming and closing federal agencies, said Matthew Kavanagh, director of Georgetown University's Center for Global Health Policy and Politics.
"A combination of Article One and Article Two powers of the Congress have been interpreted very clearly by the US Supreme Court and by all of the congressional mandates that have come since then to understand that it is Congress' ability to create and to abolish agencies and offices," Kavanagh said.
"The Supreme Court has regularly recognized that it is the US Congress' prerogative to legislate, and within that legislative power to create or abolish agencies," he added.
"The president cannot unilaterally abolish an agency that has been created by Congress. That takes an act of Congress and doing so is clearly unconstitutional."
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Not that Trumpers feel constrained by the Constitution and the Law.
