Article originally appeared on www.westernjournal.com.
Before Monday, how many Very Online Democrats do you think even knew about the U.S. Agency for International Development or what it did?
They still don’t know what it does, I don’t think — but the freezing of the agency’s budget and the closing of its headquarters as of Monday, according to The Wall Street Journal, became one of the first great outrages of the second Trump administration, with one lawmaker declaring the move “what the beginning of dictatorship looks like.”
It’s unclear what will happen to USAID, which had a budget of $44.7 billion in 2024. Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency want to eliminate it, while Secretary of State Marco Rubio seemed amenable to folding its functions into the Department of State.
Neither pleased Democratic lawmakers, who tried to enter USAID headquarters Monday and were turned away. Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, leader …
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