Posted on 02/06/2025 10:15:52 AM PST by DallasBiff
Within hours of taking office, Donald Trump issued a sweeping executive order suspending all U.S. foreign aid. Four days later, his administration followed up with a stop-work order for USAID, demanding that staff and agency contractors cease all work. Almost immediately, hundreds were laid off and USAID-supported organizations around the world closed their doors. HIV patients were turned away from U.S.-backed clinics, medical centers in Gaza shuttered, and first responders in Ukraine told to stand Groups fighting malnutrition and famine in Sudan now say they have just days before they run out of supplies.
That was as of last Friday. On Saturday, it got worse. Agents from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency raided the offices of USAID and assumed control of the agency’s personnel and payment files. Soon thereafter, Musk approvingly reposted X users who shared malicious conspiracies about USAID and its work around the world. “USAID is a criminal organization,” Musk posted. “Time for it to die.”
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LOL. Musk spreading “malicious conspiracies” about USAID activities.
/sarc
How much money has New Republic received ???
Actually the entire 80%+, $3+ trillion unconstitutional portion of the federal gov't is literally illegal and a criminal organization.
KILL THE UNCONSTITUTIONAL PORTION OF THE FEDERAL GOV'T NOW!!!!
Haven’t seen a number, yet, guessing very much.
Musk has unrestricted access to what USAID spends its money on.
I unqualifiedly believe him.
What would have been newsworthy would have been if Trump had left the spigot turned ON that was channeling billions to the ‘Rats and their supporters.
USAID still exists - it has just been dissolved as an unaccountable stand alone entity acting as Democrat slush fund for enriching cronies and spreading evil around the world.
It is now part of the State Department and under the direct supervision of Marco Rubio and I don't even think the funding has changed.
Legit things like building water well in Ghana can still be funded but funding Democrat color revolutions and Soros networks are off the menu for the time being. .
For years it’s been ... Get a government job ... enjoy a 20 hour work week ... never worry about getting laid off ... retire on up to 80% of your annual salary unlike those poor slobs that contribute into Social Security and are lucky if they get 20% of their annual salary to live on. Now how many of them are losing that lolly pop and have to rely on their talent to get a high paying job that requires them to be top rung on the talent ladder?
Taxpayers are supposed to be ok with untold billions being spent on journalist that fit the narrative of an existing administration, undermine elections home and abroad, spend money on non essential projects in foreign nations, enact an agenda that is so progressively liberal it can only be described as vulgar? Do I got that right? Oh, and to fund it while MASSIVELY deficit spending so that my great great great grandkids are paying for Alzheimer Joe???
Yup—if New Republic is not being subsidized directly or indirectly by AID you can be certain it has been happening through some other .gov agency.
DOGE just has to get on those hip boots and slog deeper into the Swamp.
Marco Rubio said over and over that if an organization that was funded by USAID had a true emergency function, like a hospital or emergency response, they could apply for a waiver and continue to be funded. The assumptions underlying this story are false.
What you said!!
Does anyone have any info as far as what really was cut and what was not? For example, what about drug programs and Medicare? What about foreign medical aid or food programs?
I keep hearing that there are exceptions to all these cuts, such as life or death circumstances, but I can’t find anything in writing. I am battling with a couple of liberals over this, and need some evidence / links to stories for my argument.
The Democrat party is like the mafia. What other possible explanation can there be for a political party that votes in lockstep? It must be controlled by either carrots or sticks. Step out of line and your entire family will be financially ruined. Cooperate and your family will get sweet gigs, win lucrative book contracts, be admitted to the choicest schools, receive overly generous speaking fees, etc.
Occam’s razor says the most simple explanation is probably right. What is the most simple explanation for Democrat loyalty? Again, it must be a grift, blackmail, or both.
VERY good question.
And what's the Constitutional warrant for supporting VD clinics in foreign countries?
How is that a legitimate expenditure of American TAX money? If that is to be done with American money, it should be done by private secular or religious organizations using money given voluntarily.
People on both sides need to make sure they understand that “USAID” stand for “U.S. Agency for International Development”. It too often has nothing to do with humanitarian assistance. It was simply a conduit of US taxpayer money used for Uniparty Globalist Liberal Esatablishment Elite (UGLEE™) ends.
Typical of UGLEE programs whose title has absolutely nothing to do with what is actually being done.
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