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where in the constitution is congress or the executive empowered to give money to other countries?
it cannot be illegal to end unconstitutional programs
this is getting boring
Guys, you get to have Fair Trade Mercantilism.
Talk to any GOP and ask if they are OK with keeping 50% of US AID funding going where some entrepreneur god-kings are deployed into the State Dept to identity Chinse run
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Who cares what academics think honestly? Elon has actually built and fixed large organizations many times. Academics have no such track record.
In part of the “democratic” process having Congress audit these groups and not the Executive Branch? One the huge worries was putting the consumer protection board in the Fed. It fan its own world without Congress.
It's not foreign aid.
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No, really: if USAID was really saving lives, how come we haven’t seen impassioned speeches this week from 40-50 Prime Ministers & Presidents around the world that tens of thousands of their citizens are going to die? Why are they all so silent — and why do many seem relieved? x.com/mikebenzcyber/…
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Love being told that foreign aid money laundering cannot be stopped by our own national leaders.
Folks like Easterly aren’t really interested in slowing foreign aid. That’s performative. It’s his role, his schtick. He’s not ready to stop playing yet.
I struggle to understand that how aid was distributed was “legal and democratic” but auditing it and shining a light on it for the public to see it was spent on things they never would have supported is undemocratic?
Holy fuck I'm tired of seeing losers like you on my timeline. If you want to give a bunch of terrorists money then be my guest, but don't force other taxpayers to do so. You evil assholes should stay on bluesky.
"acting illegally" Because Congress specifically allocated all the funds DOGE exposed? "undemocratic" Because voters strongly support USAID spending?
He's assuming the setting up of the fund was "democratic". Also curious about how winding up any govt fund is illegal?