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Donald Trump, which closed US International Development Organization without Congress, has been tested about his office by having been appointed for many years since he was appointed two weeks ago. A legal expert said that it represents another unprecedented movement by the president. CNN.
A few decades ago, Trump’s assistant officer and high -tech millionaire Eron Musk signed that Trump would close it without pointing out the specific presidential order issued by the President. After stating, it seemed to be free on Monday.
A few hours later, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that he was a USAID agent.
“We are really in the unknown territory here,” said Steve Vladec, a CNN Supreme Court and Steve Vradeck, a professor of George Town University Law. “I have never seen the president trying to destroy the parliamentary institution.”
On Monday, Trump argued that he would not need Congress at all to completely dispose of USAID.
“This is not the case with scams. If there are fraud, these people are crazy,” said Trump when he was asked about the ability to accurately change major changes to USAID. “We just want to do the right thing. That should have been done long ago.”
The institution distributes billions of dollars around the world to alleviate poverty, treat illness, and respond to hunger Amine and natural disasters. It also promotes the construction and development of democracy by supporting non -governmental organizations, independent media, and social initiatives.
However, Trump’s claim that he can close the USAID in one hand is in conflict with the clear role of Congress in the formation and closure of federal government agencies, and is the director of Georgetown University’s Global Health Policy and Political Center. Matthew Kabana said.
“The combination of the authority of parliamentary Article 1 and 2 of the Congress has come to the United States Supreme Court, and since then, to understand that it is the ability to create and abolish parliamentary organizations. The office has been very clearly interpreted.
“The Supreme Court regularly recognizes that it is the privilege of the US Congress to perform legislation and within the legislation rights of creating or abolishing government agencies,” he added. 。 “The president cannot unilaterally abolish the institution created by the parliament, which requires parliamentary actions, and is obviously unconstitutional.”
The oldest repetition of USAID was founded in 1961 under the government of President John F. Kennedy. During the period of President Bill Clinton’s employment, Congress has passed the laws that have officially established the institution we know today, but also gave the President’s option to maintain it within the State Department. Clinton declined and opened a road with independent institutions from the department.
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In the latter half of Monday, Rubio tapped in a letter to a member of the Diet, saying, “To maximize efficiency, to start the USAID activity and start a potential reorganization process to maximize the business.” I mentioned.
He may have moved, reorganized and reorganized certain missions, stations, and offices to the Ministry of State, and could be abolished in conjunction with the application method. I wrote and concluded.
Trump and parliamentary stress tests
Destruction of USAID may be straight to Trump’s political agenda, but this movement itself is a stress test of Congress dominated by a Republican Party, which has little desire to suppress the movement of the president. It may be.
“This administration states that they want to fundamentally rebuild the US government’s bureaucracy in multiple different ways, and here, the US assistance institution is politically weakest. One is one. ”
“We are not talking about the Ministry of Defense. We are not talking about the Ministry of Education, but the cabanas are still added.” They are testing what they can escape. Even if they violate the US law to make sure they stop, they are trying to reveal this movement.
Trump has pledged to abolish the Ministry of Education in the past, but the executive -level division, such as USAID, requires parliamentary approval before closing.
“If he succeeded here … this is not the last institution that the president attempts like this,” said Vradeck. “But that’s exactly the point. In other words, even if we hate how much we like agencies, they are the privilege of Congress, not the president, but at the crisis here.”
The Democratic Party on Monday has warned of government’s movements, suggesting that some people call it illegal and fight a closing plan in court.
Senator Chris Murphy, a Democratic member of Connecticut, called the current moment at a press conference in front of the headquarters of an institution in Washington DC downtown.
Gerry Konory, a top Democratic Party member of the House of Representatives Service and Government Reform Committee, also accused Trump’s plan, “We are in the court as much as possible, and in public opinion in public opinion. I’m going to fight, in Congress.
However, what the Democratic Party opposed to the plan may be concretely challenged by the Diet because it may be specific for the Diet to clear the issues of important values necessary to raise the case in court. It is not clear that you may be able to take a challenge.
VLADECK presumed that legal issues could be brought to a group that could be laid -off or a group that did not receive the right to gain from employees.
“If there is an entity signed by the USAID, there may be a violation of the contract,” he said. “If there is a civil servant employed by USAID who think that their employment has accidentally ended in violation of civil servants, they may have a claim.”
CNN Jennifer Hansler, Lauren Kent, Alex Marcard and Kevin Liptack have contributed to the report.
