USAID situation ‘deeply chaotic’

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USAID’s absorption into the US State Department is “deeply chaotic” and poses a constitutional challenge to Congress, Matthew Kavanagh, Director of the Center for Global Health Policy, tells Al Arabiya News. #USAID #Trump #ElonMusk #GNT

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00:00There's a lot of chaos right now around kind of what is the future of the agency.

00:05It's important to remember that USAID was chartered by Congress.

00:09It's an established organization and agency within the U.S. government,

00:13and it actually does not—the president doesn't have the ability and the legal authority to just abolish it.

00:19And so what you heard yesterday was Secretary Rubio saying that he is now the head of USAID

00:25and that their plan is to bring it inside of the U.S. State Department

00:30and perhaps abolish parts of it, perhaps keep other parts of it.

00:34It's really deeply unclear, and it's actually set up a major constitutional challenge

00:38for the Congress and the presidency at this point.

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