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[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Trump’s wide-ranging effort to bring independent agencies firmly under his control provoked a dramatic confrontation this week at the DC office of the U.S African Development Foundation. The White House Presidential Personnel Office and elements of Elon Musk’s DOGE team moved to oust the board of USADF and purported to install a new acting chairman of the board, a step that legal experts tell TPM is unlawful.

The full extent of the confrontation at USADF became public when the president of the independent agency filed a lawsuit Thursday trying to block the White House’s assault on its independence. The lawsuit refers to a Feb. 28 missive to USADF management from the White House Presidential Personnel Office claiming to appoint Pete Marocco – a Trump official known for helping strangle USAID from within – as “acting chair” of USADF’s board

In it (the memo), Trent Morse, deputy assistant to the President and deputy director of presidential personnel at the White House, stakes out a legal position that would undercut the Senate’s power to confirm new officers at agencies like USADF, experts say. Trump, Morse asserted, would have the “inherent authority under Article II” to appoint acting officials without going through the Senate’s process of advice and consent.

My bold.

Hey oligarchs, do you think you're safe? You're no^oooo^oot.

Edit: I should say, they're not safe from Trump. He's following the Russian oligarch playbook. You're going to look back on last year as the good ol' days of freedom.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He went through his last term with a whole bunch of 'acting' officials without them being approved by the Senate; he's going to rely on that precedent here.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

Not to be rude, but please don't normalize this.