Posted on 02/07/2025 3:20:18 PM PST by Libloather
The Trump administration moved ahead Friday with the dismantling of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) — despite legal challenges from department employees — by tearing down or covering up signage on the building’s headquarters.
Federal workers removed USAID lettering from the façade of the Ronald Reagan Building, even as the agency’s 10,000 or so employees and foreign aid programs remain in limbo.
The American Federation of Government Employees, a union repping USAID workers, sued President Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and other administration officials for recalling at least half of the agency’s more than 10,000-member workforce back to Washington, DC, from foreign posts.
Work crews at the beleaguered agency also blocked out signs at 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, just a 10-minute walk from the White Huse, with duct tape and trash bags — and the building’s lease was terminated, according to sources who spoke with Politico.
A reduced workforce of roughly 600 are expected to continue distributing critical humanitarian assistance and public health funding for projects, one of the sources told the outlet, after a federal judge barred Trump from laying off more than 2,000 other employees.
“USAID IS DRIVING THE RADICAL LEFT CRAZY, AND THERE IS NOTHING THEY CAN DO ABOUT IT BECAUSE THE WAY IN WHICH THE MONEY HAS BEEN SPENT, SO MUCH OF IT FRAUDULENTLY, IS TOTALLY UNEXPLAINABLE,” President Trump posted on his Truth Social account Friday.
“THE CORRUPTION IS AT LEVELS RARELY SEEN BEFORE. CLOSE IT DOWN!”
Billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk began the process of shuttering USAID last weekend with his team of Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) engineers, who gained access to the agency’s HQ as part of their mission to review more than $40 billion in funding programs and trim wasteful spending.
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The sign was symbolic.
This was the 21st Century Boston Tea Party.
Trump and Musk chose the MOST deserved agency of being demolished first.
They caught the Deep State by surprise.
What they did was unprecedented.
A legitimate government taking down the propaganda wing of an illegitimate shadow gubmint.
Even the staunchest Democrat cannot come up with a defense that is plausible in any way,shape or form.
There is simply too much evidence, all of which is so damaging and so clear that everyone who may have voted Trump for the first time feels vindicated by their vote.
A beautiful sight.
This is better than U.S. troops tearing down Saddam’s statue in Baghdad.
In the long run, it may be more consequential than Russians tearing down Lenin statues in the early 1990s.
Remember that the left was in an uproar when Trump fired all those Inspector Generals ... DOGE is doing what they should have been doing. IGs have become the tame pets of the agencies that they were supposed to be monitoring. There should be a separate department that is totally independent such as DOGE.
Woo! Hoo!
Even the staunchest Democrat cannot come up with a defense that is plausible in any way, shape or form.
There is simply too much evidence, all of which is so damaging and so clear that everyone who may have voted Trump for the first time feels vindicated by their vote.
“propaganda wing of an illegitimate shadow gubmint.”
Did they get approval from Shadow Government President Adam Shiff?
100% the corner penthouse of the CIA Color Revelation Headquarters.
To my way of thinking the employees who get laid off are the lucky ones, considering the gross malfeasance they should be in jail.
Demolish the building in the middle of the night—while the judges are sleeping!
BTTT
Yes it is!
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