Does any constitutional scholar here know how USAID was created?
You might think it was an act of Congress, but you would be incorrect.
Replies to: Does any constitutional scholar here know how USAID was created?
Is what's on Wikipedia wrong?
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It grew out of the Point Four program. So, yes.
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Go on...
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President Kennedy Executive Order. Now ask how it is funded?
By Congress, as part of their constitutional role.
USAID has played a vital role in keeping the world and American safer.
If President Trump deems it in our best interest to eliminate the agency, he can do so.
But he cannot unilaterally impound previously approved appropriations by Congress.
And he cannot outsource control of the taxpayers’ purse to the richest man in the world who (1) has no legal authority or national security guardrails and (2) has numerous conflicts of interest.
So Trump can eliminate the entity but he can't defund it?
Explain this to me, what would be the constitutionally allowed guardrails on spending money appropriated to an entity that no longer exists?
Can a President unilaterally defund infrastructure projects?
That is, Congress authorized approximately $4 billion for bridge and road repairs for Iowa in Infrastructure Act.
OK if Trump cuts off funding, where Iowa is left with half built bridges and other projects already under construction?
USAID is specifically a foreign aid program, not domestic infrastructure.
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Why are you changing the subject?
what would be the constitutionally allowed guardrails on spending money appropriated to an entity that no longer exists?
Who would the Treasury write the checks to?
I’m trying to dummy it down for you.
Trump can eliminate USAID AFTER previously approved appropriations are exhausted.
Trump cannot defund the agency midstream.
Otherwise, there would be no need for congressional budgets each year. Treasury would simply collect our taxes, and the President would sit at his desk and dole out funds as he deems fit, or pocket the funds for his personal interests.
Checks n balances.
Congress has the power of the purse, and determines how taxpayers money is spent. That process becomes law.
I agree with this. And as I said yesterday, I hope there's a strategy at work here.
Make a large, justified stink of all of the taxpayer money getting wasted on worthless crap through this agency. You still have to spend the funds that were approved, but now you have public support going forward to re-imagine a less wasteful way to support U.S. interests at home and abroad.
If that's not what we're doing here, then I have a problem with it.
So if USAID doesn't spend all their money, they can't be eliminated?
I think Madison would have serious concerns about this logic.
The absurdity is astounding - conor and 94 think that their bureaucracy can never be removed.
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I bet you don’t know - here it is - The independent agency was created through the Foreign
- Assistance Act, which was passed by Congress and signed by then-President John F. Kennedy in 1961. The goal was to counter Soviet influence during the Cold War and advance America's interests by strategically providing foreign aid.
It's almost word for word, minus the last part.
Congress passed the Foreign Assistance Act on September 4, 1961, which reorganized U.S. foreign assistance programs and mandated the creation of an agency to administer economic aid. The goal of this agency was to counter Soviet Union influence during the Cold War and to advance US soft power through socioeconomic development.[13][14] USAID was subsequently established by the executive order of President John F. Kennedy, who sought to unite several existing foreign assistance organizations and programs under one agency.[15]
who gives a F…! What it proves is none of you cult members know anything.
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Where did you source it from?
Are you upset they left information out?
You left out the last part from your wiki copy/paste.
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not from wiki.
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