A law professor has explained why Trump and Musk's plans to move USAID to State Department are not set in stone.
The President and Elon Musk's plan to move control of the United States Agency for International Development to the State Department will bring legal challenges, an expert has warned.Loyola Law School professor, Jessica Levinson, told Fox2 'When it comes to really big structural changes to USAID then you need to go to Congress.'USAID and the State Department has been contacted by Newsweek via email for comment.
Elon Musk, who advises the President, expressed on X that he wants to get rid of the agency due to his prerogative for efficiency under his, currently unconfirmed, role as head of the Department of Government Efficiency .He said the agency, which provides the only daily meal to many residents of war-torn Khartoum, is a 'ball of worms.'Workers for USAID told the NYT, that in reality an end to the agency's funding could kill hundreds of thousands of people.
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