This news article explores the unsettling situation unfolding within the U.S. federal government under President Trump's second term. Trump's administration, aided by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), is making drastic changes, including offering buyouts to civil servants, pausing federal grants, and seemingly attempting to gain unauthorized access to government systems. The article highlights the confusion and concerns among federal workers, the legality of these actions, and the potential long-term consequences for the federal bureaucracy.
Nothing about her last few years at the U.S. Agency for International Development could have prepared Jasmine* for the last two and a half weeks at the U.S. Agency for International Development.
“It’s only been two weeks. Only two and a half weeks of everything,” she said, referring to the new administration. “All of the emails are coming out very late in the day or in the middle of the night with very little warning. It’s definitely a very markedly different tone from any agency notices that have gone out prior to this time, as long as I’ve been working at USAID.”Trump has also done plenty independently of Musk.
which Rubio says will get absorbed into the State Department, though there are questions about whether that can happen without congressional approval. The agency’s brick-and-mortar headquarters remained shutteredTrump’s memo outlining an across-the-board grant freeze, arguing the administration may have “run roughshod” over congressional authority with “potentially catastrophic” outcomes for organizations that rely on grant funding.It’s not clear which, if any, programs are currently impacted.
The president cannot unilaterally get rid of an agency legislated into existence by Congress. But Trump is testing the degree to which he can get around programs that aren’t protected under statute.“I mean, much of this, on the face of it, is aptly illegal,” Kamark said. “There are rules for how you lay off people in the federal government, if you decide to do a reduction in force. You don’t decide the Education Department doesn’t exist anymore.
“That is entirely new,” Binder said. “When all is said and done, is this effort going to be ground down the way most overreaching gets ground down in American politics” — through delay, political bottlenecks, court fights and public opposition?Congressional Republicans, who control both the House and Senate for the next two years, have not given much of an indication they plan to stand in Trump’s way, though some seemed uneasy with the general lack of program review.
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