And please tell my how US national security is at risk by suspending aid to Ukraine.
Yesterday, the Hill ran
another outrageous story headlined, “
Democrats slam Trump over reports he’ll merge USAID with State Department.” Uh-oh. It’s about to get real.
Yesterday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, 74,
launched the rumor that Trump was trying to figure out how to
shut down USAID altogether:
As Schumer correctly noted, USAID was created by John F. Kennedy through an executive order and later established by Congress. It’s meant to be an “independent” agency overseen by the State Department to handle disbursing billions of dollars of “humanitarian relief and economic development.” Those terms are squishy enough that Democrats and every sketchy deep state agency have coopted it as a money spigot. USAID is a tool to quickly splash cash around the world wherever it may be needed, like funding color revolutions and regime change operations, or Democrats’ congressional campaigns.
USAID’s “independence” frustrates oversight and shuts down scrutiny. But the agency’s “independence” is constitutionally dubious, entrenched only through statutory loopholes and bureaucratic inertia. The Constitution vests all power over foreign relations in the Executive Branch (Article II, Section 2). Foreign aid logically falls under his constitutional authority over foreign relations.
Over the years, lawmakers have created statutory authorities purporting to allow USAID to function semi-autonomously. This effectively gave unelected bureaucrats wide latitude to execute U.S. foreign assistance policy— even if it contradicted the sitting President’s policies. But Reagan’s unitary executive theory suggests that the President may fire USAID officials and override their decisions
without congressional micromanagement.
It sure looks like President Trump is toying with a showdown with Congressional Democrats over his control of Executive Branch agencies and their employees. This is another developing front in the war with the deep state. If Trump can cut off the money, the deep state will wither away.
A jam-packed Weekend Edition, trying to catch up with the flood of news. Broadly, Trump launched the next phase in the war against the deep state and Dems are freaking out. And tons more.
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USAID essentially functions as one of many money laundering machines for Democrats in DC. Here’s how it works:
• Activists create obscure NGO
• Dems fund it lavishly
• NGO does bare minimum (or actively hurts the United States)
• Activists get paid and donate to Dems
Not only that but USAID helped spread their gender ideology nonsense and brought millions of illegals into our country.
That’s why Democrats are freaking out about the possibility that USAID’s being shut down by President Trump. It needs to be done.
Has anything good ever come out of USAID? Sure but we don’t have the money to be the world’s piggy bank and they’ve been an overall disaster that works harder to prop up left wing NGO’s than they do to help people. America voted to end this farce.