Over the past few weeks since President Donald Trump’s inauguration, tech mogul billionaire Elon Musk, at the behest of the president, has used his non-department Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, to ransack numerous federal agencies within the D.C. bureaucracy with no regard for the Constitution or the rule of law.
Perhaps most notoriously thus far, Musk and DOGE have unlawfully gutted congressionally mandated funding within USAID, essentially eliminating the agency from the government.
It’s important to note that it is Congress, not the president, that has the legal authority to cut funding from the federal government. Musk, an unelected bureaucrat billionaire, definitely does not possess this power.
But the Republican-controlled Congress has abdicated this authority to Musk. Other federal agencies, such as the Department of Education, have seen an unlawful reduction in funding as well.
For all intents and purposes, it’s debatable, to put it modestly, if we’re even still operating under the Constitution.