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No. But at some point, day becomes night. If a "dime" in a $60 billion budget is being spent unlawfully, you can stop spending that "dime." But you can't stop the entire $60 billion budget for three months, because your job as President is to follow the laws and budgetary obligations that Congress has set for the country.

But Trump is well within his rights to zero out the extracurricular things that USAID is funding.

Let's put it this way. Samantha Freaking Power has been the one running it for the past few years. What do you think her job over there was?

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