President Trump and the billionaire technical entrepreneur, Elon Musk, have moved to close the US International Development Organization (USAID).
The mask agreed to him that his administration should close his USAID after his administration would obtain a “madman” from an institution before his government was decided about the future. Was stated.
Later, Trump made Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday to be the representative of USAID, and a document supporting the USAID was placed under the Ministry of State's website on the weekend.
Democratic members are messing around Trump's actions and promising legal issues. Republican members who support foreign aid are supporting the movement of the president, while Trump's closest allies are supporting the president's movement, but mainly maintained.
“If we are the way we go down, I would definitely delete USAID as another department,” said Brian Must (R-FLA.).
The mast also called for “purging” a staff member of the Ministry of State to scrutinize foreign aid.
These are five takes over the use of USAID shutting down.
Successful constitutional issues
Trump said on Monday that he did not think he would do parliamentary acts to overhaul the USAID, and the reporter said that there was a “tremendous fraud” in agency. However, the Democratic Party and some legal experts do not agree.
The USAID was created in 1961 by the Presidential Ordinance from President Kennedy, and in 1998 the Congress Law became its own institution.
According to it, it is not to reverses parliamentary actions and unilaterally disabled laws. New York University Faculty of Law “Just Security” blog. Furthermore, the State and Foreign Operation Budget Law in FY2024 has added provisions to discuss the reorganization of the USAID and notify the parliament.
The Trump administration is considering the legal route that the President is used to sign the Presidential order that ends the independence of USAID, Reuters reported on Friday。 The White House did not respond to comments on potential orders.
Senator Chris Van Horen (D-MD.) Available to some of the federal employees, USAID subsidizers, and some of Trump's orders associated with the protection of the general operations of institutions. He said he was cooperating with a lawyer.
Senator Andy Kim (dn.j.), who worked at the USAID African Bureau, claimed Social platform posting x “Trump/Musk cannot be unilaterally closed or relocated under the state. USAID has been cultivated by the 1998 USC 6501 or later external work reform and reorganization method.
I emphasize Trump and Musuk's disgust for foreign aid
Trump has been calling for reducing foreign assistance since his first administration -his isolated “American First” Agenda -and I tried to merge Although it is an institution with the State Department, the ultra -partic pushback has solved these plans.
As one of his first movements of his second administration, he signed an administrative order to freeze foreign support for three months, and the authorities conducted all programs reviews. Instructed to match the vision of.
The Democratic Party warns that by bringing back US support worldwide, it can open the door of China's influence.
“Trump administrators are dissatisfied with the growing influence of China in Africa, but we will close one of our best tools to fight this.” Kim said in X。 “Their righteous methods trying to shut down the USAID are a country where we are in a war with itself, and it is scattered and divided by the United States. We say to other countries that we do not care about them, as they are trying to plead to them. “
Give insights in the direction of DOGE
Musk -led government efficiency bureau (DOGE) has been in charge of finding ways to reduce spending and reduce personnel, and is immediately alert to the scope of the federal government.
Musk ran to USAID in X and said, “I spent the Wood Chipper at the Wood Chipper on the weekend.” The USAID website is offline, hundreds of contractors have been fired, and employees have been closed out of accounts without notice.
Two USAID top security representatives are reportedly taking a vacation on Saturday night after DOGE employees refused to access the internal system. And the USAID employee was blocked by a man who identified their colleagues to be part of DOGE but later came to the Southwest DC in the second USAID office. He said.
USAID had a budget of $ 40 billion in 2023. This is less than $ 70.9 billion that the government's largest contractor, Lockheed Martin, received that year. Federal contract data。
The mask decision of targeting humanitarian support organizations is to send shock waves and confusion through the aid community, and other institutions are required to be the next target.
The power of Dogue under Trump is increasing
The weekend attack on USAID emphasized the power of Rubio during diplomatic travel to Panama and Central America, and Trump put it in Douji.
Rubio accused USAID “not responding” while it was recorded that it has been supporting US foreign aid in the past. Talk to the reporter In El Salvador.
“I am very struggling with those reports that they do not want to cooperate with the people who are asking simple questions,” said Rubio. “The dislocation of that level makes it impossible to carry out a kind of serious and mature review that large -scale assistance should have a large warrant.”
DOGE officials are also demanding access to the Ministry of Finance's payment system used by authorities to pay.
White -house spokeswoman Caroline Ribit said on Monday, a special government official, and said, “I have observed all the applicable federal law.”
Mr. Trump said that Musk could not do anything without his approval, and he added that the billionaire could do “if we agree with him”.
The Democratic Party tries to defend USAID and meet
Democratic members gathered in support of USAID, concentrated on Musuk and Douge, warning that threats to the United States were closed.
“In the United States in 2025, witnessing that the Federal Government completely dominated and uninforially elected, Elon Musk, and many selected individuals are fully dominating the federal government. You wouldn't have imagined it. “
However, if the Republican members do not participate in the pushback, the Democratic Party may have to rely on the court to confirm Trump's authority.
“I don't have a lot of Republican colleagues who want to help us, so we do as much as possible with our colleagues through the court to maintain the rule of the law,” said Van Horen, outside of the USAID headquarters. Monday press conference. “Elon Musk may try to play a dictator here in Washington DC, but he cannot close the international development organization.”
Senator Brian Shagaz (D-HAWAII) said on Monday that all Trump candidates will have a blanket hold on the State Department as long as the attack on USAID continues.
Representative Sarah Elfress (D-MD.) Urged Americans to put pressure on Republican members.
“We need your help. If you are represented by the Republican member of the Senate Republican Party, you need to call their office. You need to hear your voice. I need to appear in their office. “
