ELON Musk targets federal agencies, pays the workforce, and Choping programs that support millions of people worldwide. Committee members on Washington Week with the Atlantic Ocean Join a discussion of how Musk and President Donald Trump implement plans to purify thousands of employees from the federal government.
This week, the Trump administration dismantled the United States Agency for International Development, the largest human donor in the world. “The US Agency for International Development has the leadership of thought and technical ability, to operate aid programs on a large scale, there is no one else.” Removing the agency “most likely means the collapse of food aid programs throughout Africa, and possibly aid to help refugees. The US International Development Agency runs vaccination programs for children all over the world; this means that children will not get polio vaccines.”
Abbom explained that the removal of the American Agency for International Development may have an impact on the ongoing war in Ukraine. The agency plays a role in restarting the Ukrainian power network, as well as helping to provide seeds and technology for Ukrainian farmers. “The American Agency for International Development is not only thinking in humanitarian aid, but also thinking more widely in the economy,” she said. Ukraine plays a major role in the production of global food; They want Ukrainian farmers to return. “
With the leadership of Musk in the American Development Agency extinguishing, “it is a test issue for” Can agencies be canceled only without the Congress having any opinion? “But it is also a test of cruelty.” “Are Americans ready to accept a high level of cruelty and death only on the president’s whim?”
Meanwhile, the decline between Democrats was limited. “Democratic strategists warn [the party] Michael Shearer said last night: “Do not make this issue because the Democrats should say,“ We make your life better, voters. ”If they are considered a party to defend bureaucracy alike. [that] People do not know about [and] This helps people far away, they are far from eggs and butter messages. “
Join the editor -in -chief Atlantic Ocean, Jeffrey Goldberg, to discuss this and more: Ann Abbom, a writer of employees in Atlantic Ocean; Eugene Daniels, head of the main player and White House correspondent for Politico; Asma Khaled, the White House correspondent in NPR and a political shareholder in ABC News; Michael Shearer, employee writer in the Atlantic Ocean.
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