Posted on 02/02/2025 3:56:37 AM PST by Libloather
The website for the US Agency for International Development, or USAid, appeared to be offline on Saturday, as the Trump administration moves to put the free-standing agency, and its current $42.8bn budget for global humanitarian operations, under state department control.
A message stating that the “server IP address could not be found” appeared when attempts were made to access the website on Saturday.
Two sources familiar with the discussions told Reuters on Friday that the Trump administration was moving to strip USAid of its independence as a government agency and put it under state department control.
The apparent failure of the website comes after plaques embossed with the agency’s official seal were removed on Friday, according to Reuters, a sign that the merger into the state department was in the works.
The move comes as the Trump administration has vowed to overhaul the distribution of foreign aid, saying last week it was freezing foreign aid while conducting a review to ensure that assistance worldwide is aligned with Trump’s “America First” foreign policies.
Current and former USAid officials said this week that a purge of senior staff appeared designed to silence any dissent and that bringing the agency under the state department would be a “seismic shift”.
“This moves the United States government to a place where the humanitarian voice will not be in high-level policy discussions,” the official said.
In an opinion column in the Wall Street Journal, the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio – who would assume oversight over USAid if it were or had been placed under the state department – outlined a new US diplomatic focus on the western hemisphere.
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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.
There’s an easy fix. Just do away with all foreign aid. All of it. Problem solved.
Yes, eliminate all aids and all 19,000 staff!
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.
Ummm, there is a new Sec State.
Amen, brother!
“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.
“Not sure that’s a good idea, the state department runs absolutely rogue, and is the source of a lot of problems.”
Not anymore!
User Name fits your posting!
Anyway, if you can, put a MAGA Hat on that bull.
London is a Muslim dominated wasteland and the White native Brits are literally being tossed into the streets to accommodate ‘’refugees’’. And they're all BEGGING Trump (ie the US) to come save them.
since I don’t know how to post the jpg directly:
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