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It seems it really depends on who you ask. I mean, if you ask Democrats in Congress, particularly Elizabeth Warren, you know, she's going to say, you know, he doesn't have really the authority to totally demolish the agency, which I think that's probably true. I don't think you can legally take out the whole thing. But I don't think there's any laws of saying you can slowly dismantle it.
I don't think there's anything. But he's stopping him from doing that, which means you can fire people. I don't think there's anyone saying that. Somebody who runs an agency, that person can't fire people. I've never heard of that in my entire life. I mean, so, unless I'm missing something here, Russell Vogt can go in and he can systematically break down different pieces of CFPB.
I don't think there's anything. But he's stopping him from doing that, which means you can fire people. I don't think there's anyone saying that. Somebody who runs an agency, that person can't fire people. I've never heard of that in my entire life. I mean, so, unless I'm missing something here, Russell Vogt can go in and he can systematically break down different pieces of CFPB.
I don't think there's anything. But he's stopping him from doing that, which means you can fire people. I don't think there's anyone saying that. Somebody who runs an agency, that person can't fire people. I've never heard of that in my entire life. I mean, so, unless I'm missing something here, Russell Vogt can go in and he can systematically break down different pieces of CFPB.
If you follow what everything Trump is saying, Trump said that he has authorized Elon Musk to do everything that he's doing. It's the same thing, I bet, with vote. Russell Vogt wouldn't be going ahead and doing these things without the explicit approval of the White House. People think these are like people just doing whatever they want. I'm telling you right now, that is not how this works.
If you follow what everything Trump is saying, Trump said that he has authorized Elon Musk to do everything that he's doing. It's the same thing, I bet, with vote. Russell Vogt wouldn't be going ahead and doing these things without the explicit approval of the White House. People think these are like people just doing whatever they want. I'm telling you right now, that is not how this works.
If you follow what everything Trump is saying, Trump said that he has authorized Elon Musk to do everything that he's doing. It's the same thing, I bet, with vote. Russell Vogt wouldn't be going ahead and doing these things without the explicit approval of the White House. People think these are like people just doing whatever they want. I'm telling you right now, that is not how this works.
These guys, Musk and Vogt, aren't doing this in a vacuum. They're doing this with the clear authorization of Trump and the White House.
These guys, Musk and Vogt, aren't doing this in a vacuum. They're doing this with the clear authorization of Trump and the White House.
These guys, Musk and Vogt, aren't doing this in a vacuum. They're doing this with the clear authorization of Trump and the White House.
He's having his Doge team go into federal agencies, setting up shop, and they are getting access to various information on this concept of cutting, in their view, wasteful spending, trying to kind of track down anything they would and the president would deem as waste. And it's kind of been a whirlwind in D.C. as we've gone through this.
He's having his Doge team go into federal agencies, setting up shop, and they are getting access to various information on this concept of cutting, in their view, wasteful spending, trying to kind of track down anything they would and the president would deem as waste. And it's kind of been a whirlwind in D.C. as we've gone through this.
He's having his Doge team go into federal agencies, setting up shop, and they are getting access to various information on this concept of cutting, in their view, wasteful spending, trying to kind of track down anything they would and the president would deem as waste. And it's kind of been a whirlwind in D.C. as we've gone through this.
everything that Elon Musk is doing, he has been authorized by the president.
everything that Elon Musk is doing, he has been authorized by the president.
everything that Elon Musk is doing, he has been authorized by the president.
He has been given maximum authority as a basically a temporary employee of the US government to go into these agencies and make either through his own authorities, cuts himself or bringing back the cuts to the White House, and then they execute those said cuts at a level that I've never seen before at all.
He has been given maximum authority as a basically a temporary employee of the US government to go into these agencies and make either through his own authorities, cuts himself or bringing back the cuts to the White House, and then they execute those said cuts at a level that I've never seen before at all.
He has been given maximum authority as a basically a temporary employee of the US government to go into these agencies and make either through his own authorities, cuts himself or bringing back the cuts to the White House, and then they execute those said cuts at a level that I've never seen before at all.
He's no fan of it. He's been absolutely upfront about it clear as day on social media. He does not think that in its current organization should not be the way it is under Trump, that it has to change. And so he's been very upfront about his view about USAID.