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How is the executive branch directing a department under their authority a coup? Please be specific.

Because they're simply upending/ignoring Congressional mandates in the form of law. For example, Congress directed the creation of USAID as an independent agency in 1961. It cannot simply be abolished by executive fiat.

Actually in 1961 it was purely an executive thing. I think it was either 1978 or 1998 when Congress put it into statute.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Agency_for_Inter...

Sadly one of the references in that paragraph is a dead link now, because it references the USAID website which has been taken offline.

>abolished

That doesn't seem to have happened, it looks like Rubio is now in charge of it. So again, how is this a coup?

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