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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by reissbaker on Monday February 03, 2025 @06:33PM (#42924929)
Ah, my read of that was that as of October 21, 1998, the President would have to submit a report to close USAID (whereas previously the President did not have to submit a report). However, your reading makes more sense.
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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by mrcode007 on Monday February 03, 2025 @08:50PM (#42926469)
It’s not his reading. It’s the only reading.
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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by ethbr1 on Monday February 03, 2025 @09:01PM (#42926584)
Did you read the bottom? Clinton already executed this in 1999.

>> Memorandum of President of the United States, Mar. 31, 1999, 64 F.R. 17079, provided...

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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by dragonwriter on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @12:00PM (#42935196)
Uh, that obviously cannot be executing a power that expired 60 days after October 21, 1998.

(It was actually delegating power to revise the USAID reorganization plan—which was not a abolition—and to set the effective date of then part of the reorg that was not transfer of mandatory functions to the Secretary of State.)

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