Shutting off USAID payments is bad, but it's not just that: if someone (Trump, Musk, a lackey, whoever) can unilaterally shut off Congressionally-appropriated payments, they can shut off anything. Medicare payments to certain hospitals. Social Security checks to selected voters. Sky's the limit.
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Nathan Tankus
CNN with an absolutely gigantic story:
"Elon Musk’s top lieutenants at the Treasury Department asked its acting secretary, a career civil servant, to immediately shut off all USAID payments using the department’s own ultra-sensitive payment processing system."
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"Elon Musk’s top lieutenants at the Treasury Department asked its acting secretary, a career civil servant, to immediately shut off all USAID payments using the department’s own ultra-sensitive payment processing system."
edition.cnn.com/2025/02/06/p...
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So Trump has uploaded software to spy on computers in the government system and every time you go on a government website PRIVATE CITIZENS can be monitored and their own computers will be INFECTED WITH MUSK/TRUMP SPYWARE. Is this what ya’ll voted for? Welcome to THE NEW STALINIST USA
Also the 'Right': Let's give a billionaire that literally committed treason against the US to the benefit of Russia & publicly admitted he did so absolute power over us.
Can’t emphasize this enough. Free & fair elections (as long as you vote for the fascists & only then receive your SS check & Medicare coverage, or other benefits).
These are not the actions of people who’ll relinquish power.
So Trump has uploaded software to spy on computers in the government system and every time you go on a government website PRIVATE CITIZENS can be monitored and their own computers will be INFECTED WITH MUSK/TRUMP SPYWARE. Is this what ya’ll voted for? Welcome to THE NEW STALINIST USA
So far they are succeeding.
Fellow Americans, this is it! Our republic is in REAL danger of dying.
RESIST! It's now or never.
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https://aclu.org
It's actually not an aid organization, but an arm of the cia created after the cia got backlash for its covert actions
That's why it wasn't under the state dept
Aid is a very small part of what they do and it's given out in a way where it's like a bribe
That’s what makes Rahm Emmanuel and Carville’s encouragement to give in on USAID so dangerous
If you can single handedly control who the government makes payments to, you own that government.
It is a test run for a power grab.
The predominant check on the Executive Branch that Congress has is the power of the purse.
Trump is taking that away in the light of day.
It’s the same authoritarian playbook used by Putin and Erdogan.
B) Medicare, SS and SSI are coming up on their agenda soon. Already floating the message from a couple of Congressmen. Throwing 75+ million seniors and handicapped on the streets
It just seems inconceivable that some asshole Musk flunky can just declare this all be done with no systemic pushback??
The thin end of the wedge
Stop them there