Washington, D.C. – Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley says he has no issue with the Trump administration firing FBI agents and Department of Justice personnel who were key in prosecuting those who were involved in the January 6th US Capitol riots.
Those in leadership positions at the FBI and DOJ can be transferred or fired, Grassley says, but those who were just following orders from their supervisors perhaps should be spared.
Shortly after taking office last month, President Trump pardoned more than 15-hundred people who were charged in the Capitol attack, including ten Iowans. Also, the U-S Agency for International Development is seeing widespread firings, and Monday, US Senator Joni Ernst said it was the right move to shut down USAID, so every dollar can be scrutinized. Ernst chairs the -S Senate’s DOGE Caucus, working with billionaire Elon Musk, who heads the Department of Government Efficiency. Grassley was asked if Musk, who was appointed to spearhead DOGE by Trump, has the power to close down USAID.
During a live broadcast Monday on X, Ernst says Musk closed U-S A-I-D with Trump’s blessing, and Musk says he had multiple conversations with the president before taking action. Grassley says the agency clearly had problems.
Grassley echoes Ernst, who says her staff found USAID was spending millions — up to 60-percent of its budget — on overhead and other expenditures not related to humanitarian aid.
