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dot com and secure your seats today ready i was born ready Welcome to Advocity Opinions. I'm Sarah Isger. That's David French. We're going to do guns and religion today, man. I think it's going to be a good show.

Oh, it's going to be a great show. But unfortunately, Sarah, it's a great show that begins with a correction, which is not my favorite way to begin a great show.

So, you know, one of the downsides of responding in real time to shotgun blasts of legal

issues is sometimes you make mistakes. And so last show, I made a mistake. So I said correctly that

USAID, which is the agency that is now under frontal assault from sort of the Elon Musk Doge apparatus within the Trump administration, that it was a weird situation because USAID was created by an executive order, but it was spending money appropriated

by Congress that has to be spent according to the appropriation. Okay, that was true but incomplete.

USAID was created by an EO issued by President Kennedy based on language in the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961,

but in an act of Congress later in 1998, Congress essentially said, this thing that was

established by EO, we're recognizing it. We're saying there is within the executive

branch of government, the United States Agency for International Development. Now, there were

some caveats on this at the Clinton era, where Clinton could have done more of an extensive

reorganization, and he chose not to. So one way to think about this is, okay, it's an EO,

created by an EO, then in essence, its existence,

which by 1998 had been for, you know, more than 30 years, was ratified and solidified by Congress.

And so it is not to the case, as I said on the show last week, that it was an EO established entity funded by congressional appropriation. I missed a step in the middle. It's an EO established

entity ratified essentially into an agency by Congress that is now spending money appropriated by Congress.

So what is occurring, Sarah, is not the unwinding of an EO. What is occurring is the unwinding

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