Joe Scarborough Slams on Musk's 'Stupid' Bid To Close USAID
By: David Gilmour (Mediaite)
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Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough unleashed on Elon Musk, who is heading up President Donald Trump's federal cost-cutting effort for his "strategically stupid" plan to shut down the US Agency for International Development (USAID).
On Monday Musk announced that the agency was "beyond repair" and that Trump fully supports the decision to end the agency, which oversees foreign aid programs.
The announcement follows a report from Reuters on Sunday that the Trump administration removed two senior security officials at USAID over the weekend. According to three sources, the officials were dismissed after attempting to block representatives of Musk's DOGE organization from accessing restricted areas of the agency's headquarters.
On Monday's Morning Joe, Scarborough slammed the move as one that would not only impact the fight against "hunger and starvation" across the world but also undermine a key "soft power" influence the US had.
It's hard really to know where to start here. First of all, on U.S. Aid, let's talk about USAID for a second. Here's an organization that has fought hunger and starvation across the globe, that's fought diseases across the globe. [Former President] Jimmy Carter helped use it to actually rid the world of some diseases, that again, across Africa, across the world have had massive impact… USAID, it's not just charity. It is the ultimate soft power that allows America to have an advantage over China and Russia in the third world, in the global south, because the United States is there actually not just mining for, for, for, for minerals and precious metals, but also helping people.
Scarborough then ripped the idea of the "world's richest man" gutting the agency as "a stupid strategic move."
To have the world's richest man go in and say he's going to basically tear this organization to the ground, not only will cause immeasurable suffering across the globe, it also will put us in a strategic disadvantage. This is strategic! What he's talking about doing is, I'm sorry, it is stupid. And to try to vilify this organization so he can destroy it? That's not just bad for people who are suffering, the poorest of the poor, the most disadvantaged and the most disadvantaged, it's just strategically… you talk to anybody in any or any administration and they will tell you it is just a stupid strategic move.
As he continued Scarborough blasted the separate branches of government and asked when Senate Republicans, who "authorized" USAID programs that Musk is seeking to end, would "step in."
Elon Musk is going in there… They're basically, you know, doing everything but breaking down the doors and gaining access to classified information. He's not even a government employee. And again, my question is when are the courts going to step in? And also when are members of congress? Republicans, who are in charge, who authorized all of these all of these programs, voted for all of these programs, authorized all of these programs, appropriated money for all these programs, which the Constitution of the United States gives them the power to do: When are they going to stand up and go, wait, wait a second, this is this is not your power, we are still three co-equal branches.
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I thought Musks role was supposed to be advisory. Advisors don't have access to mechanisms to promote policy.
These people are evil.
What? Of course they do. The whole point of advisors is to promote policy.
Was a mistake I should have said conduct policy
We were told that he would make recommendations
But MAGA loves it
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It's just a 90 day freeze to see what kind of junk the left has put in there.