Mike Davis, a former law clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, said Monday on Fox News that President Donald Trump has a “constitutional duty” to cut government waste.
Davis also said that the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is the elite’s “party planner.”
Trump and the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE’s) Elon Musk announced plans to overhaul USAID and place it under the leadership of Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Democrats have filed dozens of lawsuits attempting to block Trump’s plans. On “The Ingraham Angle,” guest host Charles Hurt highlighted how Trump campaigned on cleaning up government waste with Musk’s help, quoting Musk’s statement to the press that if the president is blocked from examining funds, the U.S. will have become a “bureaucracy.”
“That’s exactly right. The president is in charge of the executive branch. He has a constitutional duty under Article II of our Constitution to take care that our laws are faithfully executed,” Davis said.
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“That includes these Appropriations by Congress and by these administrative agencies when they’re spending money to make sure that it’s not being misspent. That there’s not waste, fraud and abuse, [and] that we’re not sending money,” Davis added. “For example, to the U.N. in Gaza to fund Hamas terrorism, and so I think that it’s great that Elon Musk has become President Trump’s heat shield on this.”
Reports say that USAID was connected to funding initiatives that not only engaged in left-wing social engineering abroad but also carried a high risk of falling into the hands of the Taliban and supporting organizations linked to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, wasting billions of taxpayer dollars. Despite this, Democrats have continued to push back, with some protesting in Washington, D.C., over Musk’s involvement.
During a protest outside the Department of Treasury building on Feb. 4, Democratic lawmakers were seen shouting against Trump and Musk. Democratic New Jersey Rep. LaMonica McIver was heard yelling for the Senate to be “shut down” and declaring that they were now at “war” with the administration.
Hurt went on to ask Davis about a recent “60 Minutes” episode with two former USAID workers saying that people in the department were not only “really scared,” but that the Trump administration was allegedly “looking for pure loyalty tests.”
“The USAID has become the elite’s job program, their party planner, their travel agents, right?” Davis asked. “So these elitists in Washington D.C., including that woman who was just on there — wasn’t that Samantha Powers [who was] press secretary or something like that? I think these elitists of Washington D.C. can find other jobs like real Americans and [people in] real America do every day.”
In a recent legal victory for the Trump administration amid the pushback, a federal judge declined to block DOGE’s access to records systems containing personal information at the Health and Human Services Department, the Labor Department, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The judge said that the plaintiffs’ claims did not meet the standard necessary to block the access.
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