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Senator Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton ) serves as a Director at the International Republican Institute (IRI), one of eight core NGOs aligned with the political establishment...
X.com ^ | 5:28 PM · Feb 16, 2025 | DataRepublican (small r)✓@DataRepublican

Posted on 02/16/2025 6:57:23 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

...While IRI is closely tied to the Republican Party, its agenda and interests fundamentally conflicts with President Trump’s policies.

Funded primarily by taxpayers, IRI received $130,689,289 last year, much of it from USAID. Though Senator Cotton is unpaid for his board role, the organization directs substantial public funds toward expenditures like travel ($12,173,741) and pensions and fringe benefits ($14,232,108).

As I’ve noted before, IRI has funded refugee resettlement through grants to the UN-affiliated International Organization for Migration and has backed other progressive initiatives.

Anyone affiliated with IRI is advancing the interests of the global elite, not the priorities of U.S. citizens or Republican constituents—unless they choose to resign from the IRI.


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TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: aliens; cotton; doge; iom; iri; ngos; senator; tomcotton; usaid

1 posted on 02/16/2025 6:57:23 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
IRI has funded refugee resettlement through grants to the UN-affiliated International Organization for Migration and has backed other progressive initiatives

Nail in the coffin, right there, IMHO.

2 posted on 02/16/2025 7:10:22 PM PST by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Musk and Trump can really get to the swamp if they pay attention to DataRepublican.

Rubio, Hawley, Stefanik, Ernst, Cotton have all been involved in the CIA slush fund business...and of course Graham.


3 posted on 02/16/2025 7:11:01 PM PST by RummyChick
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Cotton is my Senator. We really haven’t had much competition for the office. He has his military record and he’s Republican. Will anyone challenge him in a primary?


4 posted on 02/16/2025 7:26:56 PM PST by BipolarBob (Making inappropriate postings since 2004.)
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To: RummyChick

I have always wondered about Hawley. He talks too good of a game to be real.


5 posted on 02/16/2025 7:28:22 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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I am trying to find what service Hawley was connected to but dont see it at the moment.

DataRepublican is probably the one that found it.


6 posted on 02/16/2025 7:43:18 PM PST by RummyChick
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I remember Cotton disparaging President Trump after the 2020 election, and he voted to certify the most blatant stolen election in U.S. history. Arkansas can find a better senator.


7 posted on 02/16/2025 7:50:44 PM PST by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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Hmm. Puzzled by Cottin’s concern with Colby. Colby wrote a fine book - The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict - that makes a good case for China being a primary concern for the US regarding world affairs.


8 posted on 02/16/2025 8:05:30 PM PST by Fury
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Uniparty indeed


9 posted on 02/16/2025 8:06:44 PM PST by I got the rope
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To: Fury

Sorry wrong thread - meant for here https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4298139/posts


10 posted on 02/16/2025 8:08:13 PM PST by Fury
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To: grobdriver

They are all crooks. Cut it all. Mother you know whats


11 posted on 02/16/2025 8:19:12 PM PST by onona
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Bob,

Here it is...

If we cut off the slush, how many grifters will go away ?

All of them.

12 posted on 02/16/2025 8:20:46 PM PST by onona
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To: grobdriver

Nail in the coffin, right there, IMHO.

Yup


13 posted on 02/16/2025 8:28:04 PM PST by thinden (Buckle up …..)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Pity


14 posted on 02/16/2025 8:45:34 PM PST by wardaddy
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To: RummyChick

I just watched her interview. Things make a lot more sense now.


15 posted on 02/16/2025 8:56:56 PM PST by roving (Deplorable MAGA Garbage )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Did anybody believe it was just Democrats?

There is one party in Washington DC, and they want your money and not your opinion.


16 posted on 02/17/2025 3:20:38 AM PST by Pete Dovgan
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Sunlight is a great disinfectant so this is great news. Let’s find and publish every NGO/legislator relationship. If we make an example of a few the rest will straighten up and fly right. Or fly TO the right. Cotton needs to refund every dime he made as “Director” and then work his butt off for Trumps’s agenda.


17 posted on 02/17/2025 5:20:58 AM PST by EandH Dad (sleeping giants wake up REALLY grumpy)
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