Elon Musk

[Alan V]

“I spent the weekend killing babies and spreading disease around the world, while destroying soft power and a tradition of aid for my adopted country, instead of going to parties! Yay for me!”

“We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper. Could gone to some great parties. Did that instead,” Elon Musk said in a post on X early Monday morning after the X Spaces discussion.

Musk said earlier Sunday on X, “USAID is a criminal organization. Time for it to die.”

Trump also criticized USAID, in remarks to reporters Sunday night.

“It’s been run by a bunch of radical lunatics. And we’re getting them out,” Trump told reporters, The Associated Press reported.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administrat...shut-down/

This still represents Congress-approved spending, doesn't it?  If so, that means it is still illegal for Trump to shut it down.  He seems to be testing the separation of powers again, just on a smaller scale than with an across-the-board spending freeze.

The question is whether Congress will object to his encroaching on their powers.  They should, if this is in fact illegal.  Otherwise they are giving the green flag to autocracy.

Also, Trump seems intent on delegitimizing the whole Democratic party in the eyes of his supporters, let alone the Constitution itself.