Destruction of world’s largest humanitarian programme was done without formal authority or official oversight, former USAID employees claim
Elon Musk, leader of the Trump administration’s now-disbanded Department of Government Efficiency, must sit for depositions along with senior State Department officials over their role in dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
Pointing to findings that Musk had made the decision to break up USAID – one of the world’s largest humanitarian programs – despite lacking formal authority or official approval – District Judge Theodore Chuang wrote that there was “no alternative” than for Musk and other officials to provide testimony regarding their decision-making process.
The ruling represents a win for a group of anonymous former USAID employees who are suing Musk, DOGE and State Department officials over the closure.
The alternative is a literal Nazi posting racist cartoon depicting Obama as monkey, not to mention a few murders here and there, and a promise to deploy armed Gestapo to watch the election. But worry not. You prople did very well not woting for a weak candidate.
Alas, you have a strong one now.
Average sentiment around Mark Carney representing the liberals before the election in Canada was similar. A new name on a party the people were fed up. Then the opposition started spouting the same shit Trump was and their conservative leader managed to lose what could have been an easy landslide victory if he had kept his mouth shut. Now our “weak” candidate actually seems to be making an impact in places that had been stagnating in Canada, like diversifying trade and allegedly tackling the housing crisis.
This is a very good point. I was reading “Extreme Ownership” and one of the point they were making: a 5-star manager makes 5-star team and vise versa. I called it a BS back when I was reading. But afterwards I got a new manager that threw the amazing well-oiled high-performing team in a dumpster in 6 weeks. Half the people quit within a month (it took me longer because of the vacation lol)
I worked at a coffee shop and the manager refused to take orders or lift a finger. It had a low retention rate for workers and that managers treatment of my schedule made me quit. I went to a restaurant, the manager greeted me, took my drink order and I saw him scoop some dishes to bring back to the kitchen. While chatting with the server she said the management there helped make it her favourite place to work so far. It really is as simple as remembering you are part of the team. You have to delegate and help out, you can’t do just one.