Totally Corrupt!
It sounds like USAID felt they could do anything since they had big budgets and no oversight. Why didn’t Iranian sanctions apply to USAID?
The Guardian?
A UK socialist rag writing about AMERICAN internal politics?
They write as if they are OWED the sweat of our brows and labor as if we’re still a colony under UK control.
F**K them and the Bentleys and Lear jets they rode in on.
MEUGAAH!
Make EU Great Again - A$$-Holes!
Man, the ARROGANCE of these people.
Not sure that’s a good idea, the state department runs absolutely rogue, and is the source of a lot of problems.
Criminy, things in the Middle East things could get dicey. This region hasn’t been especially kind to the U.S. or its presidents. The Washington foreign policy establishment has an ingrained belief in its own brilliance and a willingness to succumb to hubris about the extent of its power and influence. The Middle East has a tried and true formula to get foreign aid tax dollars.....uttering the word “peace” at regular intervals.
“Peace” in the Middle East has been a pipe dream for about a thousand years........there’s a
huge price tag on “peace,” with the US taxpayer gamely trying to meet the latest “peace price.”
Netanyahu to Trump: “Can you top this?”
<><>During the 2024 election year, Biden blanketed Israel w/ $17.9 billion peace-keeping tax dollars in that one year alone, saying, “Nobody has done more for Israeli peace than I have.”
<><>Since 1973, Israel has received more than $120 billion US tax dollars in
peace-filled MILITARY assistance alone, including “three special aid” peace packages.
<><>billions for signing the Israel-Egypt peace treaty
<><>billions for Israel’s peaceful withdrawal from the Sinai.
<><>billions for peaceful redeployment of Israeli forces
<><>$5 billion tax dollars rebuilding Israeli air bases in the Negev.
Besides peace-making weaponry, Israel also receives peace-keeping economic and humanitarian foreign aid, which supports broad peaceful economic development and socio-political stability and can include peaceable non-military support related to the country’s pressing peace needs.
The United States spends around $63 billion to $72 billion annually on foreign aid. This makes the US the world’s largest donor of foreign aid.
In 2023, the US provided $63.7 billion in economic aid and $8.3 billion in military aid. In 2022, the US spent $58 billion on foreign aid, which was 1.1% of the federal budget.
The US has spent more than $3.75 trillion on foreign aid since the end of World War II.
How the US spends foreign aid
International development
Programs to fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, as well as programs for maternal and children’s health
Humanitarian assistance
Programs such as International Disaster Assistance, Migration and Refugee Assistance, and Food for Peace
International security assistance
Programs to strengthen the military and law enforcement capabilities of US partners
How foreign aid has changed over time
Foreign aid peaked at 3% of US GDP during the Marshall Plan after World War II
During the Cold War, foreign aid ranged from 1% to just less than 0.5% of US GDP
In recent decades, foreign aid has hovered around less than 0.33% of US GDP.
“Current and former USAid officials said this week that a purge of senior staff appeared designed to silence any dissent”
They can bitch all they want, but the concern is that they would UNDERCUT Trump, which they probably were doing right up to Friday.
““This moves the United States government to a place where the humanitarian voice will not be in high-level policy discussions,” the official said.”
WTF does that mean? You cannot get any higher-level than in the State Department (other than, maybe, in Trump’s bedroom). They’ll be heard, even more so.
So who has the head of the agency been reporting to?