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He's currently engaged in a massive malpractice suit and it's not going well for him. In fact, it's going as well as you would expect it to
The Sec State Just halted All Foreign Aid For 90 Days
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As I understand your system in the USA, whatever you think of programs like foreign aid (I'd like to think you'd approve of projects to keep, say, communicable diseases in Africa from spreading to Europe and the Americas, but that's just me and my Ebola-phobia) if they're approved by Congress, the executive branch is required to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed." So Secretary Rubio can "demand" all he likes, but actually refusing to follow the law is illegal.
And what about tariffs? Don't those have to be set by an act of your legislature? Isn't it only in banana republics that the President issues decrees rather than going through the process of getting laws changed by the legislature?
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The key is most of that spending is discretionary by USAID. Congress did not vote on each of those individual expenditures of funds in question. So what the President is doing is making sure "his" Executive Branch agencies are following the law in their allocation of American tax money as well as making sure none of those funds are being embezzled or a party to criminal activity.
Congress has delegated to the President the power to issue tariffs through various statutes. You can read about that here:
https://natlawreview.com/article/can-president-impose-tariffs-without-congressional-approval
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Was wondering the same thing?
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Maybe he's on vacation.
I don't suppose the President (or Secretary Rubio) is asserting that "almost all" those monies are being embezzled or are party to criminal activity?
As for the "delegation" of authority, the source you reference refers to more-or-less "emergency" powers.
All of this sounds far more like banana republic "rule by decree" rather than what's supposed to happen in a country with a functioning government!
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It's been over a month
Based on that article, it appears Trump is exceeding his authority, shockingly.
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lol.....
People who have heart trouble are at a greater risk from COVID (and other diseases, of course). So doctors make sure the patient is vaccinated before starting the transplant procedure. If the patient wasn't previously vaccinated, the patient can be vaccinated before the procedure. It doesn't take long to build up immunity. Then the patient is given the transplant and is given immunosuppressive drugs to prevent rejection. Being immunocompromised makes the patient more vulnerable to COVID, but since the patient has been vaccinated, the risk is then lower than it would have been without the vaccination.
Patients who refuse the vaccine are like patients on the liver-transplant list who refuse to stop drinking alcohol. Yes, they may still get a transplant, but they may be bumped further back in line.
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That's because you aren't familiar with the facts that have been made public and right now I don't have time to list the issues. Many have been posted, like the billions in payments from the Treasury Department without a Treasury Department transaction code. Because of that, all of that money is untraceable. Nobody knows where it went.
Perhaps you are familiar with some facts. Perhaps you'll share some with me. But even if the facts correspond to the world as you imagine it to be, your philosophy appears to be similar to be that of someone advocating the abolition of the US Army because there is "waste, fraud and abuse" in the system, rather than trying to fix the system.
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He's not.
He won't.
It's not.
You're quoting the biggest gullible liar on this site.
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Nothing I've said fits the analogy you presented above, nothing. That's what Trump is trying to do, fix the system. You can't do that without getting rid of the corruption first.
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Thoughts and prayers.
DOGE appears to think their mandate is to abolish whole agencies completely. And they have not yet found any corruption.
The only significant corruption in DC is in Congress, and takes the form of campaign contributions, perfectly and unfortunately legal.
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SS is finally putting mailing designator codes on all outgoing transactions for tracking purposes. Musk made that suggestion right off the bat.
For some reason, acceptance of campaign contributions is never prosecuted as bribery, not even where it would be easy to show a Congresscritter is championing a donor's interests.
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I think we know why the government never suggested it.
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Poly thinks DOGE is just for fraud, he intentionally skips over the other mission of waste and abuse.
First of all, it doesn't appear that President Trump has identified any "corruption" other than that he's engaged in himself (just ask why the mayor of New York seems to be his friend now!) and how could he, as he's dispensing with all the inspectors general and FBI investigators etc.
Second, the sequence is: identify the corruption in the army, stop the corruption. The sequence is not: abolish the army, claim that there is no more corruption in the army because there is no more army.
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No business operates that way.
