Musk’s USAID shutdown is illegal: And a bad policy to wipe out foreign aid, but Trump has bullied Congress into submission

There are two things very wrong with Elon Musk and his quasi-official DOGE shutting down the United States Agency for International Development, appropriately called USAID: 1) Musk has no authority (and neither does President Trump) to abolish a congressional established government entity and 2) foreign aid, which is what USAID does, is a cost-effective investment that helps America’s international economic and security posture. Musk claims that USAID is gone and has been folded into the State Department. Brand new Secretary of State Marco Rubio claims now to be acting head...