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The ReidOut with Joy Reid

Musk's 'DOGE' is spiraling U.S. into a constitutional crisis

The ReidOut with Joy Reid

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🗓️ 8 February 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Joy Reid leads this edition of The ReidOut with Donald Trump aligning with President Elon Musk in calling for an end to USAID—the same agency that First Lady Melania Trump once praised as embodying her "Be Best" initiative and that Ivanka Trump used to launch a highly publicized program to empower women in developing countries. Less than three weeks into this new administration, we are already facing what many are calling a constitutional crisis, and it is not coming from the man elected to sit behind the Resolute Desk, but from the unelected billionaire seemingly pulling the strings—Elon Musk. Listen now to this edition of The ReidOut on MSNBC.

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0:00.0

Thank you all for joining us as well. Happy Super Bowl Friday. We have a ton to get to in the next hour of the readout, including Donald Trump, falling in line with President Elon Musk by calling for an end to USAID. The same USAID, a.k.a, that his wife, First Lady Melania, said, embodied what her B-Best program stood for,

0:23.6

and that first daughter Ivanka used to establish a highly publicized initiative to empower women

0:29.6

in developing countries. But we begin tonight less than three weeks into this new administration,

0:35.1

and we are already facing what is rightfully being

0:37.5

described as a constitutional crisis. It comes not from the man elected to sit behind the

0:43.1

resolute desk, but from the unelected one, who appears to be pulling all the strings, tech

0:48.5

billionaire Elon Musk. It's happening in real time, thanks to Elon's made-up Department

0:53.5

of Government Efficiency

0:54.8

that he and a handful of young adults from his private companies have unleashed on this country

1:00.2

with nearly unfettered access to any agency or database they choose to infiltrate.

1:06.2

In this short time, we've seen them all but abolished the U.S. agency for international

1:10.4

development, with plans to reduce its workforce from 5,000 to what's time. We've seen them all but abolished the U.S. Agency for International Development,

1:11.4

with plans to reduce its workforce from 5,000 to what's expected to be about 600. And it's

1:18.0

being done without congressional authority, which is required given that it was Congress that

1:22.1

passed the law that formally established the agency. Of course, this is just the start.

1:29.7

With little pushback, Musk and his minions are gaining access to more and more U.S. government agencies every day. Just today,

1:36.5

Trump said he instructed Musk to check out the Pentagon. And those people gaining access to the

1:42.3

most sensitive systems are not the best and the brightest.

1:46.3

Yesterday, one of Elon's little henchmen resigned from Doge after his now deleted racist social media posts resurfaced.

1:53.8

According to the Wall Street Journal, the posts from 25-year-old Marco L.S.

1:58.3

Included such gems as, just for the record, I was racist before it was cool.

2:03.3

You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity and normalize Indian hate.

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