Trump administration sowing chaos for power

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Trump administration sowing chaos as a way to gain power, Matthew Kavanagh, Director of the Center for Global Health Policy, tells Al Arabiya News. #USAID #Trump #ElonMusk

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00:00But what we also know is that part of what this administration is trying to do

00:03is to sow some level of chaos because that's a way to gain power.

00:07And so right now, they've put all of the kind of leadership of USAID on leave.

00:12They've decided that it's going to move over to the U.S. State Department.

00:15They've set up a whole bunch of major, major challenges.

00:18What if that will come to fruition is an interesting question.

00:20Actually, the courts are now weighing in.

00:22They've actually put a temporary restraining order on the freeze on funding.

00:27And I wouldn't be surprised at all if the courts actually stop the transfer of USAID

00:31into the State Department because it very directly violates U.S. law.

00:35And so the question is, what level of this is real?

00:39And what level of this is an attempt to sow chaos and to kind of create power building?

00:44And then a third option is also out there, which is what portion of this

00:48is the administration trying things out in the aid sector?

00:52Because they know that the aid sector is less politically powerful than others,

00:55where they try to really attack the civil servants, really attack the U.S. government

01:00structures that move things forward.

01:02And if they can do it in USAID, maybe they can also do it in other parts of the U.S. government.

01:06That's the one that actually worries me the most.

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