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Let me be clear, I have no problem if Trump wants to advocate and push Congress to change USAID's funding priorities to stop funding things that it calls "DEI" (even though their description of that is hilariously broad). The problem is in (1) the President taking power over funding that is not his to take, and (2) trying to demonize and destroy USAID in its entirety on the basis of spurious claims that it is a criminal organization that is engaged in fraud and criminal activity. When the only "evidence" is a small minority of small grants that were used for things the Trump administration is now crusading against.I'm all for finding waste everywhere. The problem is, the go-along-to-get-along Congress doesn't care about waste, nor have they, to any meaningful degree, for a long time.
So, if the president has the authority to not fund DEI programs in Serbia and LGBTQ comic books... great.
It may be small, but at least it's something and these ridiculous (yes, my opinion) pet projects are being exposed.
As for Congress: the solution to that is for Congress to do more and/or do better. Not to have Trump continue to justify a dramatic expansion of executive power - including the power to impound money, which he absolutely does not have - on the basis of clearly spurious claims about USAID being some nefarious anti-American organization.