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Congress must stand up to Trump’s USAID power grab — before it’s too late

Nationwide protests against President Donald Trump and Elon Musk's actions are increasing, with major media outlets warning that their actions appear illegal.
Senate Democrats are urged to block Trump nominees, as Chuck Schumer expresses the need for a united Democratic front against these actions.
Elon Musk, appointed by Trump, is accused of unlawfully taking control of federal agencies without Congressional vetting.
Concerns over Musk's access to sensitive data have led to lawsuits and a motion to subpoena him, as Congress members raise alarms about potential data privacy invasions.

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Daily Camera

David Mastio: After President Donald Trump’s attack on USAID, Congress has to stand up for itself

By David Mastio This week, Donald Trump lawlessly shut down the United States Agency for International Development. While the agency was created through a presidential executive order during the Cold War, its existence was cemented in law by Congress in 1998 — nearly three decades ago. Trump’s men literally shut down USAID’s offices and website, furloughed its employees, fired its contractors and shut off disbursement of money to projects around…

16 days ago·Boulder, United States

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Bangor Daily News

Congress must stop Musk’s unlawful power grab

The BDN Editorial Board operates independently from the newsroom, and does not set policies or contribute to reporting or editing articles elsewhere in the newspaper or on bangordailynews.com. Is it a coup? That’s not a question we ever thought would be asked about government action in the United States. But, here we are with Elon Musk, a foreign-born billionaire installed by President Donald Trump with no vetting from Congress as the head of th…

17 days ago·Bangor, United States

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Raw Story

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow warns of ‘red alarm screaming in the night’ over Trump's power grab

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow didn’t mince words Wednesday night as she offered viewers her insight into the current state of political affairs in America and sounded the alarm on the growing number of executive power grabs swirling around the new administration.Maddow, during her show’s opening monologue W...

18 days ago·United States

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The Hill

Congress must stand up to Trump’s USAID power grab — before it’s too late

More than ever before, the American people need and deserve a strong Congress to check and balance Trump’s increasingly authoritarian White House.

18 days ago·Washington, United States

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liberalpatriot.com

The Presidency Has Become Too Powerful

One of the first lessons American students learn about their government is the concept of “checks and balances”: our democracy is a constant tug-of-war between the legislature, the executive, and the judiciary, each of which is responsible for checking the other such that none of them ever grows too powerful. This was intentional, as the founding fathers were wary of allowing too much power to be accumulated in the hands of any one branch—especi…

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