Because anything we can do to make what we have work better, we all have an obligation to do our part. But USAID was established by an act of Congress more than 25 years ago. And constitutionally, No president and no unelected billionaire can unlawfully shut a congressionally authorized agency down. There's no authority to do that. And we shouldn't stand by and essentially abdicate our Article 1 authority and cede the capacity to a President to pick and choose among … (09:32–09:42)
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Asserts that neither a president nor an unelected billionaire has the authority to shut down a congressionally authorized agency.
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