There are plenty of problems in the government. But killing USAID is a good first step, because it seems to be a funnel for some of the most obvious corruption. Maybe a few prosecutions will make others fly straighter.
I believe that the corruption and fraud is real and has been shown many times. It has not yet been PROVEN in court, so we need somebody to be prosecuted to finally prove that the money has been diverted.
We all believe something. You don't prosecute based on belief, you prosecute based on evidence. You must have the proof before you prosecute, you don't prosecute to find proof unless you are CCP.
Pete, I think somebody has given you bad info. USAID was created by executive order, so disbanding the organization is absolutely within the power of the Prez. Some of the funding it provides is ordered by Congress but the Prez has the option to manage it any way that he wants.
USAID has been redirecting billions of dollars that Congress ordered for humanitarian relief such as famine or flood relief and redirected it to LGBT advocacy or to propaganda media organizations. THAT is illegal. So Trump is restoring constitutionality.
In 1961, USAID was created by an E.O. issued by President John F. Kennedy (E.O. 10973), based in part on authority provided in the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. But a later act of Congress (The Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998, 22 U.S.C. 6501 et seq.) established USAID as its own agency. In a section titled “Status of AID” (22 U.S.C. 6563) it states:
(a) In general
Unless abolished pursuant to the reorganization plan submitted under section 6601 of this title, and except as provided in section 6562 of this title, there is within the Executive branch of Government the United States Agency for International Development as an entity described in section 104 of title 5. (emphasis added)
The key language here is “there is within the Executive branch of Government [USAID]” (see sections 6562/6563). Those are the words Congress uses to establish an agency within the executive branch. It would take an act of Congress to reverse that – simply put, the president may not unilaterally override a statute by executive order.
I am not saying there is not corruption there but what corruption did DOGE expose? Subscriptions are not necessarily corruption and although they can be questioned the amounts are relatively low. Plus you have the added problem of ignoring the fact that only Congress has the power to disband USAID and that they authorized the funding, and 10,000 employees are being paid presently to not work at USAID (plus another 60,000 who took a deal that technically the President is not authorized to make given the lack of congressional authorization). We either have a Constitution and Rule of Law or we dont.
There are plenty of problems in the government. But killing USAID is a good first step, because it seems to be a funnel for some of the most obvious corruption. Maybe a few prosecutions will make others fly straighter.
I believe that the corruption and fraud is real and has been shown many times. It has not yet been PROVEN in court, so we need somebody to be prosecuted to finally prove that the money has been diverted.
We all believe something. You don't prosecute based on belief, you prosecute based on evidence. You must have the proof before you prosecute, you don't prosecute to find proof unless you are CCP.
Pete, you can’t seriously think that USAID is clean, do you? There is a mountain of evidence there.
Pete, I think somebody has given you bad info. USAID was created by executive order, so disbanding the organization is absolutely within the power of the Prez. Some of the funding it provides is ordered by Congress but the Prez has the option to manage it any way that he wants.
USAID has been redirecting billions of dollars that Congress ordered for humanitarian relief such as famine or flood relief and redirected it to LGBT advocacy or to propaganda media organizations. THAT is illegal. So Trump is restoring constitutionality.
In 1961, USAID was created by an E.O. issued by President John F. Kennedy (E.O. 10973), based in part on authority provided in the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. But a later act of Congress (The Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998, 22 U.S.C. 6501 et seq.) established USAID as its own agency. In a section titled “Status of AID” (22 U.S.C. 6563) it states:
(a) In general
Unless abolished pursuant to the reorganization plan submitted under section 6601 of this title, and except as provided in section 6562 of this title, there is within the Executive branch of Government the United States Agency for International Development as an entity described in section 104 of title 5. (emphasis added)
The key language here is “there is within the Executive branch of Government [USAID]” (see sections 6562/6563). Those are the words Congress uses to establish an agency within the executive branch. It would take an act of Congress to reverse that – simply put, the president may not unilaterally override a statute by executive order.
https://www.justsecurity.org/107267/can-president-dissolve-usaid-by-executive-order/
I have not yet seen proof they redirected funds
I am not saying there is not corruption there but what corruption did DOGE expose? Subscriptions are not necessarily corruption and although they can be questioned the amounts are relatively low. Plus you have the added problem of ignoring the fact that only Congress has the power to disband USAID and that they authorized the funding, and 10,000 employees are being paid presently to not work at USAID (plus another 60,000 who took a deal that technically the President is not authorized to make given the lack of congressional authorization). We either have a Constitution and Rule of Law or we dont.