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Re:Payments Crisis of 2025: Doge Have "Read-Write" Access to... by anigbrowl on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @03:57PM (#42938550)
Congress mandated the creation of USAID in 1961. I don't hthink the executive branch has the legal authority to just abolish it by fiat or change its status from independent to a subordinate organ of the state department.
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Re:Payments Crisis of 2025: Doge Have "Read-Write" Access to... by labster on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @05:21PM (#42939817)
It doesn’t matter if Trump has the authority to do something if no one stops him. Laws are just words on paper.

America is no longer a nation of laws. Period. We are a nation ruled by Trump and Musk.

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Re:Payments Crisis of 2025: Doge Have "Read-Write" Access to... by llamaimperative on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @05:34PM (#42940008)
Eh that ship hasn’t sailed (yet) and this type of commentary isn’t productive toward preventing it from setting sail.

We are in fact a nation of laws and we ought to demand enforcement.

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Re:Payments Crisis of 2025: Doge Have "Read-Write" Access to... by nessbot on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @06:24PM (#42940719)
This type of talk just does the work of the authoritarian for them.
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Re:Payments Crisis of 2025: Doge Have "Read-Write" Access to... by johnnyanmac on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @04:04AM (#42945916)
Perhaps, but what's anyone going to do about it?
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Re:Payments Crisis of 2025: Doge Have "Read-Write" Access to... by brewdad on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @09:37PM (#42942947)
We are a nation of laws still. At least three judges have told Trump/Musk to stop what they are doing. The problem we are running into right now is who enforces the laws when the Executive branch decides they don't want to follow them?
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