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Elon Musk announced that he and Trump are shutting down USAID, bypassing Congress’s authority over federal spending.

Musk claimed Trump fully supports the move, though Trump has only criticized USAID without explicitly confirming its closure.

The White House has not commented. The administration has already placed USAID officials on leave and reviewed its funding.

Critics argue the move violates federal law, setting up a potential legal battle.

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[–] [email protected] 193 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (5 children)

How the fuck is Elon Musk suddenly in charge of the US Government? How are the American people OK with this? How are American politicians even OK with this?

[–] [email protected] 115 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Remember when Republicans were whinging about "unelected bureaucrats" and the "shadow government"?

Yeah, now they're literally implementing that themselves.

I wonder if Elon walks around with personal security.

[–] NielsBohron 61 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Remember when Republicans were whinging about “unelected bureaucrats” and the “shadow government”?

"Wait, it's all projection?"

🌍 👨‍🚀 🔫 👨‍🚀

"Always has been"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

Every accusation is actually a confession

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

He does and quite a lot it seems, the New York Times report it's up to 20 bodyguards and a doctor. Tesla payed 2.4 million USD for protection of Musk in 2023. Apparently they went through documents that the Handelsblatt got from Lukasz Krupski, who used to work at Tesla

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/13/technology/elon-musk-security.html

[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 days ago

American people are protesting. Politicians are either actively allowing this behavior or saying, "Oh-no, he can't do that! What he did is very bad!" Unfortunately, politicians are not beholden to the people they are supposedly representing.

[–] Furedadmins 20 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Musk can literally never show himself in public anymore for fear of assassination.

[–] formergijoe 17 points 4 days ago

Why do you think he's been running around with ~~a human shield~~ one of his kids at all times recently?

[–] bitjunkie 21 points 4 days ago (2 children)

We're not okay with it, they've just removed our ability to do anything about it that isn't a literal act of terrorism

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago

JFK put it quite nicely back in 1962: "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago (2 children)

This was all outlined in Project 2025 which was made publically available for everyone to read. Then people voted for Trump.

[–] ZJBlank 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You say that like trump voters read anything

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Therein lies the problem.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

A bunch of the conservatives I know professed to believe him when he said he had no idea about project 2025. Whether they were just masking or actually duped, I have my guesses.