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The executive branch has certain powers prescribed to them, it's a question of whether or not they're able to actually shutter a congressionally created and funded agency. (it doesn't seem they do)

It's about following procedure.
If you're referring to USAID, it wasn't created by Congress no matter how much you all want to point to the funding of it done by Congress that's not how it was created.
 
OK, so how is Medicare at fault for that? Is the IRS at fault if you cheat on your taxes?
Did you not read my remark where I said I sort of blame the Government for their low reimbursements in the first place?
Maybe - just maybe - this will reduce fraud if the Government says we need to raise our reimbursements?
Too naive on my part?
 
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Did you not read my remark where I said I sort of blame the Government for their low reimbursements in the first place?
Maybe - just maybe - this will reduce fraud if the Government says we need to raise our reimbursements?
Too naive on my part?
I just don't know
 
Everyone hears welfare fraud and they think of the poor people as the offenders. Quite often its the middle-men finding ways to take advantage of the system.

No doubt, and yet…
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If you're referring to USAID, it wasn't created by Congress no matter how much you all want to point to the funding of it done by Congress that's not how it was created.
You're missing information relevant to the question. Established as an agency in 98


Can the President Dissolve USAID Without An Act of Congress?

No, not lawfully. In 1961, USAID was created by an E.O. issued by President John F. Kennedy (E.O. 10973), based in part on authority provided in the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. But a later act of Congress (The Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998, 22 U.S.C. 6501 et seq.) established USAID as its own agency. In a section titled “Status of AID” (22 U.S.C. 6563) it states:

(a) In general

Unless abolished pursuant to the reorganization plan submitted under section 6601 of this title, and except as provided in section 6562 of this title, there is within the Executive branch of Government the United States Agency for International Development as an entity described in section 104 of title 5. (emphasis added)
The key language here is “there is within the Executive branch of Government [USAID]” (see sections 6562/6563). Those are the words Congress uses to establish an agency within the executive branch. It would take an act of Congress to reverse that – simply put, the president may not unilaterally override a statute by executive order.
 
What are promoting here Sooner, I find it very questionable that you are stating to assassinate the president?
No. I’m telling the drama queens they need to put up or STFU. They will never choose the former because they know they’re full of shit with all their eNd Of DeMoCrAcY bullshit.
 
If there's going to be a positive out of the last 2.5 weeks, hopefully it's that Congress and our courts acknowledge the need to stop moving at a snail's pace and enter the 21st Century
 
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It’s not unusual to read about clinics (especially here in Florida with so many people on Medicare) to add in codes on billing that bill for things the Doctor or PA never addressed and the patient didn’t ask for.
We hear a lot that Docs are investigated for fraud.
It’s a big problem in SoFla.
Really Really, please tell me more. So it is fraud by individuals, that a new system may not be able to capture immediately either but that you think can magically just be found and eliminated. In either case, its not 8% of medicaid and 4% of Medicare.
 
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Medicare fraud is not uncommon in many of these “clinics” where they overbill in order to get reimbursed more than what the diagnoses and treatment calls for.
I’m not defending the audit but frankly the reimbursements are so low that it’s an area ripe for fraud. I blame the government in part for reaping what they sow.

In some states Medicare fraud gets you a Senate seat
 
They didn’t hide any of this, and Americans asked for it.

If you study history the amount of parallels between 1930’s Germany, and Stalins consolidation of power are uncanny.

We will see if it escalates any further, I myself believe a best case scenario is an Orban style dictatorship.
 
If you're referring to USAID, it wasn't created by Congress no matter how much you all want to point to the funding of it done by Congress that's not how it was created.
They will ignore it
You're missing information relevant to the question. Established as an agency in 98


Can the President Dissolve USAID Without An Act of Congress?

No, not lawfully. In 1961, USAID was created by an E.O. issued by President John F. Kennedy (E.O. 10973), based in part on authority provided in the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. But a later act of Congress (The Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998, 22 U.S.C. 6501 et seq.) established USAID as its own agency. In a section titled “Status of AID” (22 U.S.C. 6563) it states:


The key language here is “there is within the Executive branch of Government [USAID]” (see sections 6562/6563). Those are the words Congress uses to establish an agency within the executive branch. It would take an act of Congress to reverse that – simply put, the president may not unilaterally override a statute by executive order.
he didn’t dissolve it🤔
 
They will ignore it

he didn’t dissolve it🤔
I didn't ignore it. I corrected him. Started as an EO, became an agency through congress in 98. Therefor it's dissolution would have to be congressional.

The same with spending as it is congressionally controlled.

Feel free to document the spending and what you think needs to change. Then work with congress to change it.
 
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The executive branch has certain powers prescribed to them, it's a question of whether or not they're able to actually shutter a congressionally created and funded agency. (it doesn't seem they do)

It's about following procedure.
The USAID was created by executive order of President Kennedy.
 
Tell us this...Have we ever seen another administration act this way in the first few weeks?

If so, which administration was that?

These are uncharted times.
That not hyperbole.
So they’re uncharted waters?
So no one including Nazis went that way either.
 
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