We’ve been reporting that Donald Trump is no
fan of USAID, the US Agency for International Development, and he's
determined to reform or eliminate the agency. Bureaucrats within the
independent agency have not been taking it well and have been throwing
temper tantrums and trying to “resist,” thinking somehow that the
electorate voted them into office and not the president.
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On Saturday night, Trump decided it was a good time to mete out some more consequences for the uncooperative rebels:
Two top security officials at the US Agency for International Development
were put on administrative leave Saturday night after refusing to allow
officials from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to
access systems at the agency, even after DOGE personnel threatened to
call law enforcement, multiple sources familiar told CNN.
Personnel from the Musk-created office physically tried to access the USAID headquarters in Washington, DC, and were stopped.
The DOGE personnel demanded to be let in and threatened to call US Marshals to be allowed access, two of the sources said.
DOGE head Elon Musk let it be known what he thought in no uncertain terms:
RedState’s Ward Clark explained in a recent article why USAID is so problematic and should be transformed or eliminated entirely:
Not only is USAID paying for stupidity like sending condoms to the Taliban, along with all manner of money poured out overseas, but their 2025 budget request is asking for $42.8 billion.
That's a "B" followed by an "illion." That's a lot of American
taxpayers' dollars to let USAID play Santa Claus to the world. In case
anyone hasn't noticed, we can't afford it. We're broke. Our national
debt situation is untenable, we may well be past the point of no return,
and we can't keep paying for things like condoms for terrorists
anymore.
More Musk:
Trump is refusing to stand quietly by and let these functionaries defy him, a position this latest move only reaffirms:
Three
of the sources said the DOGE personnel wanted to gain access to
security systems and personnel files. Two of those sources said also
they wanted access to classified information.
USAID Director of
Security John Voorhees and his deputy are the latest officials who have
been put on leave amid fears that the agency is being intentionally
dismantled by the Trump administration. Rumors are swirling that
President Donald Trump intends to sign an executive order to fold USAID
into the US State Department – a move that Democratic lawmakers say is
illegal.
More and more people, from underlings at the General Services Administration to DEI zealots at the Pentagon,
are finding out that if you mess around and work from within against
this administration, there will be a “find out” response soon
forthcoming.
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