And look at that - it was resolved the way it's supposed to be resolved, through our legal system. NOT by the fiat of a ketamine-jacked billionaire who appears to be acting in the interests of his foreign benefactors. |
What is Chemonics and how does it relate to USAID? |
Chemonics is a USAID contractor. |
Subsume, not dissolve. You aren’t from around here, eh? |
If your job might be bloat, stay home until it’s evaluated. If you know it’s definitely bloat, just get another job. |
Who are the SEVEN CIA people on USAID’s board? |
Still not something that can be done without congressional approval. |
Not true. Nothing in the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 mandates that an independent agency take on foreign assistance. USAID was created by an executive order as the mode to implement the requirements of the act/law. But the Executive has immense discretion under the law to determine mode. |
Nope. The president has zero legal authority to "shut down," defund, or otherwise cripple a $50 billion agency. Audit it, identify unnecessary expenditures, draft reform or rescission proposals, and then go to Congress to PASS A LAW. |
You would be right if the agency was created by law. USAID was not created by statute. In other words it was created under executive authority not legislative. |
The current law provides for US AID to administer the Foreign Assistance Act and directs specific this that the administer of US AID should do. It's mentioned by name hundreds of times in the law. |
Oh yes op, have no fear. The high school kids are running things. Don't worry at all. They are so good at things. /S |
Yes because US AID is the mode the executive chose to create - until it is not. In other words the executive has discretion |
The executive does not have discretion to abolish US AID. Its existence was directed by Congress after the original executive order. https://www.justsecurity.org/107267/can-president-dissolve-usaid-by-executive-order/ |
The agency was codified in statute afterward, moron. Go read 22 USC 6563. |