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White House Proposes Cutting State Department Budget by One-Third (37%)
Fox Business ^ | Feb. 28th, 2017 | Felicia Schwartz

Posted on 02/28/2017 11:18:52 AM PST by Red Steel

The Trump administration is proposing to cut spending by 37% for the State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development budget, according to a person familiar with the budget deliberations.

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One U.S. official said that the State Department is looking at development assistance to other countries as a significant source for the cuts.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government
KEYWORDS: budget; maga; trump; winning
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1 posted on 02/28/2017 11:18:52 AM PST by Red Steel
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To: Red Steel

I wonder how many people died as Linda Graham rushed to the microphone to announce that the budget submission was dead?


2 posted on 02/28/2017 11:24:21 AM PST by Truth29
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To: Red Steel

The State Dept has not done something beneficial for a very long time. They have sown uprising, revolution, perversion and de-stabilization wherever they go.


3 posted on 02/28/2017 11:25:07 AM PST by lurk (TEat)
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To: Red Steel

It’s a start. Drain the swamp,


4 posted on 02/28/2017 11:25:14 AM PST by factoryrat (We reserve the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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To: lurk

All they did for 8 years was make sure the embassies had rainbow banners during Fag day or gay day whatever. People came to our embassies and consulates around the world and thought we were lost our minds and turned faggot.


5 posted on 02/28/2017 11:27:56 AM PST by max americana (For the 9th time FIRED LIBERALS from our company at this election, and every election since 2008)
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The State Dept has wasted billions of "foreign aid" tax dollars in flea-bitten mudholes like Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, and other countries.

Much of the billions in foreign aid tax dollars are unaccounted for because a great deal of money was in untraceable bags full of cash.

Makes you ponder the actual amount that got to these dirt-poor places. Billions handed out based on the Clinton Greed angle....that Muslims turn to jihad because they lack economic opportunities and education.

Our tax dollars supposedly built schools and hospitals, based on cockamamie State Dept thinking that the US could win over the hearts and minds of the poverty- stricken locals.

These same jihadists are now pouring into the US plotting to kill us.

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FREEPER ACTION PROJECT--DO THIS NOW: Hillary chaired the Millenium Challenge Corp---she handed out billions. Some of it in bags full of cash.

Demand Congress open the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC). Demand to know the financial details and the scope and dimension of individuals connected to these outrageous State Dept giveaways.........govt parasites profiting at taxayers' expense.

CONTACT CONGRESS HERE---http://www.contactingthecongress.org/

6 posted on 02/28/2017 11:31:26 AM PST by Liz (DNC Chair Perez's new Democrat slogan: Join us, or we'll sue Trump.)
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To: Red Steel

Winning. Drain the swamp Donald, drain the swamp.


7 posted on 02/28/2017 11:32:04 AM PST by Parley Baer
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To: Red Steel

This is fine but President Trump needs to get rid of every single leftist kook put in there by Obama and Clinton. Too many anti America “citizen of the world” types in there.


8 posted on 02/28/2017 11:33:03 AM PST by MAGA2017
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To: Red Steel

Should happen every year.

So, what is 37% compounded yearly for 8 years?


9 posted on 02/28/2017 11:34:36 AM PST by C210N
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To: Red Steel

Good. if State needs anything more they can ask Hillary for the missing 6 billion.


10 posted on 02/28/2017 11:39:46 AM PST by rod1 (CTLY)
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To: Red Steel

Smart move considering the SD’s goal is to undermine Trump’s agenda.


11 posted on 02/28/2017 11:39:50 AM PST by CivilWarBrewing (im)
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To: C210N

Lots and lots. You get it - every year chop chop chop...keep up the pressure. :-) Trump is on the offense everyday, and the bad guys, are losing on defense.


12 posted on 02/28/2017 11:42:30 AM PST by Red Steel
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To: Red Steel

a good start
year 2 they can cut the Snake department another 37%

Drain the Swamp! Get all the Nazis and IslamoNazis OUT of our govt!
and all the waste....


13 posted on 02/28/2017 11:43:48 AM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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To: Red Steel

YIKES!

Sorta for it...


14 posted on 02/28/2017 11:54:47 AM PST by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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How many years does it take a “developing country” to develop? How many years did it take the US? Did the US get aid to develop, or did they just go out and start creating stuff more valuable than beads?


15 posted on 02/28/2017 11:58:18 AM PST by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%fe)
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To: max americana
I wondered what the results were going to be from "making a political statement" by posting female and homosexual ambassadors in countries that weren't particularly receptive to homosexuals and females.

Then, Benghazi came along, and I found out......

Moral? When in Rome, do as the Romans do.

16 posted on 02/28/2017 12:02:45 PM PST by wbill
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To: Red Steel
McConnell and Graham say Congress won't go along. So, where are we when past Presidents refused to spend everything the Congress mandated? Of course, Congress's ultimate remedy is impeachment and removal, so they do have the Ace of Trumps--if they dare play it. Otherwise, what recourse is there?
17 posted on 02/28/2017 12:09:42 PM PST by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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To: Red Steel
It should be cut more ... or abolished. What a colossal waste of money to spend on incompetent elites...
18 posted on 02/28/2017 12:14:47 PM PST by GOPJ ("Acting' is the art of lying convincingly. Outside of Hollywood that's 'con-men' stuff..)
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To: MAGA2017

That department has been infested long before Oblama, Clinton, Bush 43, Bush 41, Reagan, Carter, Ford and Nixon. It needs to be burnt down and totally rebuilt. First step is complete militarization of all embassies pending their new appointees and staffs. Oh, and rule #1: No homos anywhere and no women ambassadors in the mohammed lands.


19 posted on 02/28/2017 12:23:54 PM PST by VietVet876
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To: Red Steel
One U.S. official said that the State Department is looking at development assistance to other countries as a significant source for the cuts.

Eliminate ALL Foreign Aid, PERIOD!

20 posted on 02/28/2017 12:28:43 PM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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