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February 7, 2025
Attacked by the right to note that Musk and Trump do not have the power of a monarchy, members of Congress introduce her critics to the country’s founding documents.
Right wing defender of Elon Musk’s virtually unlimited authority claim The US government is pushing the big lie that the world’s wealthiest person is legally (and legally) empowered to make federal agencies his personal territory. But Americans who are familiar with their country’s history are well aware of it. Implemented despite Musk and his peers rushing to close US international development agencies “Regulation wholesale removal”, Seizes financial and data systems Ministry of Finance – A move that could give billionaires a possible role in making decisions about trillions of dollars in government spending – The wealthiest man on the world’s mission, like the Trump administration “Special Government Employees” He’s not making him stronger than the US Congress.
That is a fundamental premise of American democracy, and D-Minnesota’s Rep. Ilhan Omar pointed out on Monday at a press conference with fellow Democrats in Congress. Aid and development assistance – disappointing “Constitutional crisis.” Musk might say he is trying to supply the agency to “wood chippers,” but Omar explained that Congress has a greater say.
“We can decide, we have the power of the wallet. We can decide where the money is allocated, and that’s what that money needs to get It is the power of executives to ensure they reach a place,” the elected representative said. Who added it? “The idea that billionaires can one day wake up and end life-saving international aid programs is undemocratic and totally dangerous.
It was not a radical statement.
Other members of the Congress who joined Omar outside the USAID headquarters building in Washington on Monday reiterated the sentiment of Minnesotan, who serves as adjutant on the House Budget Committee, saying who, according to the 2018 elections As “The first African refugees to become members of Congress, the first woman of color to represent Minnesota, and one of the first two Muslim-American women to be elected to Congress,” was the most popular. He emerged as one of the knowledgeable and consistently enthusiastic observers. The issue of international assistance in the home.
“What Trump and Musk did is not only wrong, it’s illegal.” I explained it US lawmaker Don Bayer, D-Virginia; “USAIDs are established by Congressional Act and can only be dissolved through Congressal Act,” said U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern, a Democrat of Massachusetts, who serves as a ranking member of the House Rules Committee, “This is not a vote for anyone.” It is a brave attempt by a billionaire, to steal illegally and unconstitutionally from taxpayers, allowing him to give himself tax credits. “
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But as often as it is, it was Omar who scored the most intense hits from right-wing experts. Musk on Omar on the label “The Major Grifter Who Hate America,” Fox News ran the report Heading“Omar slams Musk’s Trump for changes in USAID and accuses him of running a dictatorship,” Fox host Laura Ingraham said, adding that Omar “Melt” outside USAID headquarters He claimed he had a “down” and proposed that the representative’s claim was “pure comedy.”
Ingraham posted a video Omar spoke at the USAID Building, tore Minnesotan’s comments with the assertion “.”@ilhanmn He accidentally told the truth: “We can decide where the money is allocated!” That’s the problem. Trump is ending the reckless spending she helped create. The gravy train is over. ”
That’s where Omar decided to push back. She said, “Yes, ‘We’ve passed a bill that will fund the government and allocate funds rather than the president.” Maybe they open the constitution and educate themselves about government branches and how things work in America. ”
That was a sharp comment. But it had the advantage of being true.
The Constitution clearly gives Parliament the power of the wallet. This is not an ambiguous rule. It is the power outlined in First Section In its founding documents, it reflects the intention to rest in the legislative sector of the federal government, rather than in the administrative body. When Congress allows it to be spent for a specific purpose, Sally Katzen, a professor at the Faculty of Law at New York University, said I explained it This week we’re on public media market“It’s not up to the president to decide, ‘I don’t want to use it.’ ”
As the constitution gives the legislative sector the power to budget, Katzen said, “It should be spent on what Congress has in mind when it allocates funds.”
This was the point when Omar talked about the mask overreach. When the unelected political mass of the president points to a federal agency and claims he was empowered. Shut down, As Musk said about USAID, it should raise alarms on any democracy – in particular, the Constitution was written to protect against monarchy abuses that influenced the American revolution against George III and his king. It’s something that’s been done. “Rafian crowned with crown.”
Therefore, despite the attack from the right, Omar was not off the line When she warned, “We’ve witnessed a constitutional crisis. We were concerned about Trump’s desire to become a dictator on the first day (we were concerned during our 2024 campaign). And here I’m in. This is what appears to be the beginning of a dictatorship when you guise the Constitution and set yourself up as your only power. That’s how you make a dictator.”
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