MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace sounded the alarm about the legality — or lack thereof — of the staff of USAID being blocked from entering their offices on Monday.
Wallace announced the segment as "The Elon Musk Show."
She called out "his illegal dismantling of a government humanitarian agency, leaving longtime employees fearing for their safety personally and their privacy, and recklessly putting many, many people and many, many places all around the world at risk."
Others also weighed in on Trump's attacks on the agency.
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Journalism Professor A.J. Bauer from the University of Alabama noted that Musk and Trump were "shutting down" USAID was factually inaccurate.
"Has Congress passed a law superseding or eliminating the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961?" he asked on Bluesky. "Has the Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional?"
Instead, Musk appears to have fired all the people who were doing the work.
Former Barack Obama Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes said the move is "essentially ceding the whole globe to China and other countries to fill the space that was once filled by the United States."
He specifically mentioned that the 1% in the government funding budget is not only cheaper in the long run, it helps aid national security.
"So, this is not just, you know, cutting some feel-good programs. This is life-saving assistance, but it's also incredibly strategic national security interests of the United States, which, you know, Elon Musk just seems to care less about, and Donald Trump as well."
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