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Politico Labels Foreign Aid as 'Industry' as USAID Funding Cut Hits Payroll
Newsbusters ^ | February 6, 2025 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 02/07/2025 4:42:41 AM PST by PJ-Comix

Foreign aid is not the most popular category of government. So when Team DOGE shut down the USAID payment system how did Politico attempt to garner sympathy from its readers for that agency? By absurdly labeling foreign aid as an "industry." In fact, the very title of the foreign aid sympathy story on Tuesday by reporters Maggie Miller and Carmen Paun invokes "industry" as in "Foreign aid freeze results in mass layoffs that could ‘crash’ the industry."

The title is unintentionally ironic since one of those "mass layoffs" could be at Politico itself due to the cutoff of government funding for USAID. Former Fox News producer Kyle Becker offered the receipts:

(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clickbait; clickkaren; clickwhiner; doge; politico; pollutico; usaid
Industry produces goods and services. Not foreign aid or USAID $$$ to buy off media to report disinformation.
1 posted on 02/07/2025 4:42:41 AM PST by PJ-Comix
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To: PJ-Comix

NYT. AP. Reuters. Politico.

U.S. taxpayers are propping up the failing legacy media.

Would anyone be stupid enough to listen to MSM after this?

Even worse - through Soros’ Tides Foundation - we funded getting the lawless DAs elected around the country.


2 posted on 02/07/2025 4:45:18 AM PST by TigerClaws
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To: PJ-Comix

The horse and buggy industry is more valuable than the “Foreign Aid” industry because....it’s actually an industry.


3 posted on 02/07/2025 4:48:39 AM PST by Don@VB (THE NEW GREEN DEAL IS JUST THE OLD RED DEAL)
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To: PJ-Comix

It’s a money laundering industry, is what it is.


4 posted on 02/07/2025 4:50:36 AM PST by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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5 posted on 02/07/2025 4:50:37 AM PST by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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without it they all wither and die on the vine cause no one is supporting this they need USID to survive, bye bye, should have never been


6 posted on 02/07/2025 5:01:56 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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"Industry". "Racket". "Scam". "Grift".

Words matter. They should choose the correct ones.

7 posted on 02/07/2025 5:04:45 AM PST by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.")
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This is nauseating.

USAID tax dollars went to Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s Archwell Foundation.
Royals pocketed $13,004,470 from our tax dollars paid to the US government.

<><>Harry and Meghan fly private jet around the globe,
<><>they live in a huge luxe mansion in ritzy Santa Barbara.
<><>Harry’s not even a U S citizen.

Who paid for it? You did.


8 posted on 02/07/2025 5:33:44 AM PST by Liz
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To: TigerClaws

Stupid enough to listen? How about continued linking of their content here? They are so near death yet the Right props them up with mocking. Let them go. Ignore their cries.


9 posted on 02/07/2025 5:37:22 AM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: PJ-Comix

——Kyle Becker offered the receipts:——

What receipts? Show me the receipts. I sincerely doubt that anyone at Politico gave the US Treasury a written receipt for money received


10 posted on 02/07/2025 5:45:07 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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Hehe. Let’s see if the word smiths can tinker their way out of this one.


11 posted on 02/07/2025 6:07:35 AM PST by rottweiller_inc (Lupus urbem intravit. Fulminis ictu vultures super turrem exanimat. )
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To: PJ-Comix

Who will be the next enemedia outlet to not make payroll?


12 posted on 02/07/2025 6:09:49 AM PST by BlackbirdSST (Trump or Bust! Long live the Republic.)
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To: bert
I sincerely doubt that anyone at Politico gave the US Treasury a written receipt for money received.

I'll bet Politico cashed the check; hence, a receipt.

13 posted on 02/07/2025 6:17:21 AM PST by Thommas (The snout of the camel is already under the tent.)
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Cold War crap “industries” need to be “crashed”. The COLD WAR is over Khrushchev and Castro are dead and gone. Russia is a basket case. We only need to keep our guns pointed at Biden’s Red China. President Trump appears to already have that handled by kicking their asses out of running and taking over the Panama Canal. As far as everybody who don’t live in America starving if American kids don’t eat their peas, the kids have that handled with Tik Tok and GoFundMe pages. Nobody is starving anymore. Most “poor countries” are all loaded with fat people these days. Walmarts, Taco Bells and McDonalds are everywhere.


14 posted on 02/07/2025 6:24:21 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Don't forget to celebrate "A Day Without Guac and Panther Pee" today! )
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To: TigerClaws

Even worse - through Soros’ Tides Foundation - we funded getting the lawless DAs elected around the country.

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!!!

hey, maybe we can RICO these judges and da’s.


15 posted on 02/07/2025 8:52:54 AM PST by cuz1961
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To: bert
What receipts?

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will you still man the narrative control cubicle voluntarily ?
asking for a friend.
/-)

16 posted on 02/07/2025 8:54:42 AM PST by cuz1961
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