USAID is being shut down if nothing is done to stop it. This is blatantly illegal but who's gonna enforce it? Even a judge saying "you can't do that" doesn't mean anyone enforces it.
It should surprise nobody that Musk hates USAID because it was instrumental in ending apartheid in South Africa.
Additionally, controlling the Treasury payments system means that he now controls $6 trillion in annual federal disbursements. It is clear that what they cannot do by law, they will do by decree. Congress won't do anything.
At times, Republicans have worried about presidents seizing too much power, because it weakens Congress. This time, they are fully on board, and you have to assume it's because they don't expect there to be a meaningful Congress in a few years. All power will be exercised by the president, who will always be a fascist, and the other branches will be subservient if they cooperate, ignored (or destroyed) if they don't.
It should surprise nobody that Musk hates USAID because it was instrumental in ending apartheid in South Africa.
Additionally, controlling the Treasury payments system means that he now controls $6 trillion in annual federal disbursements. It is clear that what they cannot do by law, they will do by decree. Congress won't do anything.
At times, Republicans have worried about presidents seizing too much power, because it weakens Congress. This time, they are fully on board, and you have to assume it's because they don't expect there to be a meaningful Congress in a few years. All power will be exercised by the president, who will always be a fascist, and the other branches will be subservient if they cooperate, ignored (or destroyed) if they don't.
the horrors persist, but so do we
(aka large mozz)
(aka large mozz)