From a quick reading of Wikipedia and with knowledge of the recent news coverage regarding USAID, it seems that the Leftists and the MSM are trying to conflate the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, which Congress passed just before JFK's Executive Order 10973, in order to make it seem like Congress setup USAID. However, a closer reading reveals the following holes in that legal theory:
- The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 was passed specifically in order to give the President certain powers in administering aid to foreign countries (except for Communist countries) such as setting up a "Development Loan Fund", setting up a Development Loan Committee, and utilizing a number of other assistance programs' funds that Congress had set up previous to the Foreign Assistance Act.
Statute 75 (Foreign Assistance Act): https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/STATUTE-75/pdf/STATUTE-75-Pg424-2.pdf
- All the Executive Order 10973 appears to do is pass the powers that were given to the President under the Foreign Assistance Act along to the Secretary of State (along with some powers to the Departments of Treasury and Commerce) and create the USAID agency in order to consolidate the various programs listed in the Foreign Assistance Act.
Executive Order 10973: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-10973-administration-foreign-assistance-and-related-functions
So, if anything, the Act does the opposite of justifying that Congress created the USAID agency; its purpose was to give the President powers to disburse aid up to certain dollar amounts (per program) without needing to see Congressional approval. From my cursory reading, the President and the Executive Branch appear to have full authority (of course) to use less or none of the funds within the USAID's programs, as common sense also would dictate. Of course, the Leftist elites always shamelessly spout lies and the Leftist mob that follows them never questions those lies nor looks into the underlying source materials.
USAID Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Agency_for_International_Development
Foreign Assistance Act Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Assistance_Act
I don't think what she said was that bad. Rather, the College Republicans of NYU, as an organization, likely see this as an opportunity to try and get Barron Trump as their new President, hence the shameless appeal to him in their statement after forcing the young woman to resign. It's a shameless and thinly veiled grasping at fame by the NYU College Republicans.
Other strange things mentioned by the article include that there were two tufts of synthetic hair found near the body, as of from a wig, and that the apartment was ransacked as if someone were looking for something (maybe a USB drive or other evidence against OpenAI?).
Boycotting both Procter & Gamble and Unilever is difficult, since they own so much of what people buy every day, but it is so critically important that I have been doing so ever since P&G aired that anti-men ass from their subsidiary, Gillette.
Who wants to place bets on whether the following points are true?:
- The "citizens" posing with Hochul in this photo are actors.
- The train that they're in was pulled over to a maintenance rail/tunnel and isolated, meaning the general public was not capable of boarding the train and Hochul did not have to mingle with "the riff-raff" or risk her safety on New York's dangerous subways.
Essential roles within the government still get paid when the government shuts down. They just keep paying money they haven't yet printed. When the government has a budget again, they calculate that in. Don't act like you don't get paid, fed boi.
Did anyone actually read the letter in the X post? It just says that Southwest is not going to interpret diversity requirements as quotas in the second bullet point, right before immediately saying that they will increase "diversity" if those quotas aren't met, in bullet point three. This is hardly the death of DEI; they're just using corpo-speak to say they're going to continue to use quotas.
This is very likely the case. Large Language Models (LLM's) are only trained on data up until a certain cutoff date. Less sophisticated models will try to make up answers for questions about dates beyond that cutoff, while more sophisticated models are able to tell the querier that it cannot reliably answer the question. Simply put, AI cannot tell the future.
I was just having this conversation with my family the other day. None of us own a Tesla, but we were thinking that they absolutely had to use some oil for rotors, shafts, and other moving parts. Good to know that that guess is correct. Hahaha!