Doc Freemo 
Here is what is so scary about DOGE... it circumvents the senates power to set a budget which the senate and the president need to approve together. Now the president did an end run around them and is dictating, effectively, a budget with no senate oversight.
@bonifartius If it was done before, and Ic ant speak to that, then it was just as wrong then.
@bonifartius @freemo That's not quite true. Congress passed the Foreign Assistance Act in 1961 that mandated such an agency be created. That requirement of Congressional law was implemented by executive order.
So, in theory, the President could maybe shut it down to reorganize it into a new agency, but he absolutely cannot unilaterally shut down contracts for which Congress has appropriated funding.
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@freemo What's even scarier is that the Senate's response to this is essentially to shrug.
@freemo A fair point - but when was the last time Congress actually set a budget? (Was it under Clinton?) It's been nothing but CRs for many decades.
@freemo from what i gathered (might be wrong of course), many of the things now cancelled were created by previous presidents by executive order (like USAID), so they now are cancelled by executive order.