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Trump and allies make more moves to wrest control of USAID

Washington Post

John Hudson, Ellen Nakashima, Missy Ryan, Mariana Alfaro and Faiz Siddiqui

February 3, 2025

Article Excerpt: Voorhees was put on leave after he did not allow officials from the “Department of Government Efficiency” to access a sensitive compartmented information facility — commonly known as a SCIF — an ultra-secure room where officials and government contractors take extraordinary precautions to review highly classified information, according to three current and former USAID officials.

ransomnote: The media is hiding the fact that 25% of USAID given foreign countries is spent on weapons/defense; the MSM is framing the story as if Trump is agressively denying women and children drinking water, food etc. (Humanitarian aid)

SO when the reader comes across talk of USAID's classified information secured in their SCIF, the public wants to know what kind of classified information could there be when the topic is food deliveries etc. Further, if it's food, and in the case of Ukraine, firewood, then why can't Musk's people be allowed in?

Notice in Wiki's definition below, SCIFs are related to military, national security/national defense and intelligence parlance. Methinks USAID was overly 'active' in those realms, yet the MSM simply rattles on about the Trump administration denying orphans clothing/food/heat/light/water. And surely USAID officials wouldn't want to talk about giving 10% to the 'Big Guy', and shipping crates of cash to other despots around the world, while chatting at the water cooler.

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

A sensitive compartmented information facility (SCIF / s k ɪ f /), in United States military, national security/national defense and intelligence parlance, is an enclosed area within a building that is used to process sensitive compartmented information (SCI) types of classified information.

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In the News/Activism forum, on a thread titled WATCH: “I Don’t Know Where All This Money Is” – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Says Ukraine Only Received About $75 Billion of $177 Billion in U.S. Aid, ransomnote wrote:

In the News/Activism forum, on a thread titled WATCH: “I Don’t Know Where All This Money Is” – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Says Ukraine Only Received About $75 Billion of $177 Billion in U.S. Aid, Liz wrote:

Some $113.1 billion tax dollars were authorized in 2022 for Ukraine, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Most of it–about $67.1 billion–was defense-related. The other $46 billion included:
<><>$26.9 billion for economic support;
<><>$7.9 billion for international disaster assistance;
<><>$6.6 billion in assistance for refugees;
<><>$1.5 billion for assistance for Europe, Eurasia and Central Asia;
<><>plus $3.1 billion for other Ukraine non-defense spending.

<><>US tax dollars paid 618,000 educators, 517,000 health workers, and 56,500 first responders salaries
<><>US tax dollars sustained critical Ukraine healthcare services,
<><>US tax dollars met pension responsibilities for 9.8 million Ukranians,
<><>US tax dollars assisted 1.3 million internally displaced Ukrainians,
<><>US tax dollars provided housing assistance to 4.1 million Ukraine people,
<><>US tax dollars provided social assistance to 240,000 low-income Ukraine families
<><>US tax dollars subsidized 480,000 Ukraine persons with disabilities,
<><>US tax dollars bought supplies for Ukraine farmers,
<><>US tax dollars financed finding markets for Ukraine small business

31 posted on 2/2/2025, 6:16:39 PM by Liz

This is what I don't understand. If Ukraine has no functioning economy, and according to President Trump, "You hear 'Save the Ukraine!' and then you see cities without a single building left standing. That's a 110 year reconstruction project", and a flattened power grid, injured/KIA/refugee-status workforce, what's the plan for 'Save Ukraine?' Doesn't that mean the US would have to continue supplying the economic needs and reconstruction needs and defense needs etc. of the Ukraine indefinitely? And we're to do so instead of taking care of our own citizens in need?

And if Ukraine has any functioning economy, what did they do with those funds while the US Supplied everything else to pay pensions of about 10 million people, housing to 4 million, salaries of teachers, medical staff and first responder salaries etc. Did Ukraine have ANY MONEY FROM ANY ECONOMIC OUTPUT? Yes? Well then what did they do with it while we paid their bills?

How long before they/we can replace their Soviet era power grid, and all the electronics fried during the Russian 'electrical switching' attack? How long to get people to move back into destroyed cities and start working in bombed out factories? We're basically talking about cities converted into agricultural land that needs extensive demolition/cleanup.

And Zelensky still wants America to send soldiers to fight - literally asking for Patriot blood because America hasn't given enough yet.

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https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4294606/posts?page=4#4

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