House And Senate Democrats Storm USAID And Vow To Stop Elon Musk
House and Senate Democrats held a large protest outside of USAID where they vowed to stop the illegal actions of Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
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Democrats Are Fighting Back Against Trump And Musk
House and Senate Democrats held a protest and a press conference at the offices of USAID to speak out against Elon Musk’s illegal takeover of the agency.
At the press conference, House Judiciary Committee ranking member Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said:
E lon Musk, you didn't create USAID, the United States Congress did for the American people. And just like Elon Musk did not create USAID, he doesn't have the power to destroy it. And who's gonna stop him? We are. We're gonna stop him. Elon Musk.
You may have illegally seized power over the financial payment systems of the United States Department of Treasury, but you don't control the money of the American people. The United States Congress does that. Under Article 1 of the Constitution.
And just like the President, who is elected to something, cannot impound the money of the people. We don't have a fourth branch of government called Elon Musk, and that's going to become real clear.
This illegal, unconstitutional interference with congressional power is threatening lives all over the world. I'm hearing from my constituents who work for USAID and USAID contractors in Maryland, in Washington, all over the world, and they're telling us that this is a killer. In terms of their cutoff of HIV and AIDS preemption.
It's a killer in terms of anti-malarial education. It's a killer in terms of all of the efforts to shut down global viruses. Now, I don't know what Elon Musk said. intentions are. I don't know what Elon Musk's motivations are. I don't know what his purposes are. But they've got nothing to do with what has been lawfully adopted by the people of the United States of America through the Congress of the United States.
We're going to defend USAID all the way.
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Evaluations taking place of U. S. aid efforts all over the world. This has nothing to do with evaluation. This is about termination and obliteration of the major foreign aid programs of the United States of America. All of which together, total less than $40 billion, we have a Pentagon budget of $900 billion.
The Pentagon budget is where the defense contractor, Elon Musk, who became the richest man in the world off of our money. He collects his payments from and now he's trying to shut down USAID. We're not going to allow this to happen. It will not stand.
Video of Raskin:
Watch the full protest/press conference:
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