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President Trump just fired a bunch of USAID employees for conspiring to secretly send further foreign aid without approval. This administration is NOT playing games. “We've identified several actions within USAID that appear to be designed to circumvent the President's Executive Orders and the mandate from the American people. As a result, we have decided to put a number of USAID employees on administrative leave with full pay and benefits until further notice while we complete our analysis of these actions." - Acting USAID administrator Jason Gray ... Get rid of USAID ... If it wasn’t for the unions, he...

The secretary of state, Marco Rubio, has ordered a halt to virtually all US foreign aid, but made an exception for funding to Israel and Egypt, according to an internal memo to staff at the US state department. “No new funds shall be obligated for new awards or extensions of existing awards until each proposed new award or extension has been reviewed and approved … as consistent with President Trump’s agenda,” said the memo. The sweeping order appears to affect everything from development assistance to military aid – including potentially to Ukraine, which received billions of dollars in weapons under...

Honduran President Xiomara Castro has threatened to terminate military cooperation with the United States if President-elect Donald Trump proceeds with his plan for mass deportations of illegal immigrants, including those from Honduras.

DOGE Advisor Ron Paul has announced that one of his recommendations will be to totally ELIMINATE foreign aid. "It’s taking money from the poor and middle class in the US and giving it to the rich in poor countries - with a cut to the facilitators in between!" It's about time we defunded the dictators all around the world. The billions we send overseas are responsible for the corrupt people remaining in office for so long. Nothing our foreign policy establishment has done since World War II has benefitted us or the world at-large in any way.

As Old Joe Biden sends them billions. The Biden regime State Department has now publicly confirmed what it must have known for nearly three years, if not longer: Taliban jihadis are holding three Americans hostage. What have relentlessly anti-American Biden regime apparatchiks done in response? True to form, they’ve sent billions of dollars of U.S. taxpayer money to the Taliban.The Washington Examiner reported Saturday that a Biden regime Foggy Bottom wonk “confirmed on July 11 that three U.S. citizens, George Glezmann, Mahmood Habibi, and Ryan Corbett, are currently being held in Taliban custody. Taliban representatives repeatedly claimed they only held...

The United States sent faulty military items to Taiwan including mouldy armour and expired ammunition. Most military equipment that suffered water damage was delivered from November 2023 through March 2024.... Photos clearly show damaged pallets and mouldy body armour that arrived in Taiwan in 2023, including more than 3,000 mildewed body armour plates and 500 wet and mouldy tactical vests... This included expired, loose, and rounds of ammunition in the wrong packaging... The National Defense Authorization Act 2023 authorised the US president to draw down up to $1 billion from existing DoD stock to provide military assistance to Taiwan

Dr. Guy Bechor: After Hamas brutally beat those it accused of being "thieves" and even wrote "thief" on their backs (and some of them were mere political opponents), a video that the IDF spokesman even circulated [link] around the world, Hamas gave an order to carry out a brutal lynching of them: They were stoned to death by the mob, the most brutal form of death, on video. The beauty of "the day after". After the official Hamas announcement, that it will be the ruler of the Strip and no one else, and therefore will return to sitting over the...

Navy Seal Author and Historian Matt Bracken comes back on the podcast to discuss the House vote on foreign aid, how no election is fixing this, Iran, Russia, problems domestically and much more.

Armed groups in Gaza, including one with presumed Hamas links, last month robbed the Bank of Palestine of some $70 million, French daily Le Monde reported Saturday. The funds were taken from the vaults of several branches of the bank, it said, citing a Bank of Palestine document sent to “certain international partners” detailing the robberies. On April 16, staff discovered a hole in the ceiling of the safe deposit room at one of the bank’s Gaza branches and found that some $3 million worth of Israeli shekels destined for cash dispensers were missing, Le Monde said. The next day,...

Armed groups in Gaza, including one with presumed Hamas links, last month robbed the Bank of Palestine of some $70 million (NIS 260 million), French daily Le Monde reports. The funds were taken from the vaults of several branches of the bank, the report says, citing a Bank of Palestine document sent to “certain international partners” detailing the robberies. On April 16, staff discovered a hole in the ceiling of the safe deposit room at one of the bank’s Gaza branches and found that some $3 million worth of shekels destined for cash dispensers were missing, Le Monde reports. The...

The Biden Administration's efforts to bring peace to Gaza by supporting the Palestinian Authority (PA) went awry went the money the US provided was spent to reward the families of martyrs in the fight against the Jewish occupation of Palestine. Spokesman for the PA Jenin Adnan Abu Aisheh emphasized that "compensating the heros of Islam is, and always has been, our highest priority." US Secretary of State Tony Blinken said "it is profoundly disappointing to see the aid we have given to the PA diverted to furthering the conflict. By taking the PA's side in their struggle for dominance against...

After an 80-19 vote in the afternoon on cloture, the U.S. Senate on Tuesday evening passed the National Security Supplemental measure by a vote of 79-18. It will now head to President Joe Biden's desk for signature. Senate aligns with House. Approves combo foreign aid/TikTok bill, 79-18— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) April 24, 2024The measure passed the House on Saturday by a vote of 311-112. READ MORE: BREAKING: Ukraine Bill Passes House, All Amendments Fail. Swift Senate Passage Seems Guaranteed.Once it cleared the House, the package was all but guaranteed passage in the Senate. Here's a rundown of what it includes.The...

Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Sunday said House Speaker Mike Johnson “betrayed” Republican voters after the House approved new aid to Ukraine, threatening to call a vote for his ouster if he doesn’t resign. “Mike Johnson’s speakership is over. He needs to do the right thing to resign and allow us to move forward in a controlled process. If he doesn’t do so, he will be vacated,” Greene said on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.” After months of resisting putting a foreign aid bill on the House floor, Johnson joined with Democrats on Saturday to advance a $95 billion...

WASHINGTON, April 18 (Reuters) - Donald Trump said on Thursday the survival of Ukraine is important to the United States, a shift in tone days before the Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives is due to vote on a $61 billion aid package.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer bragged on the Senate floor on Wednesday about how House Speaker Mike Johnson gave into Democratic demands in foreign aid packages. Human Events' Jack Posobiec said he heard from a senior Republican official that Schumer "was just on the Senate floor bragging to other members about Speaker Johnson giving Democrats everything they wanted in the Ukraine and foreign aid packages." Posobiec said on Human Events Daily Wednesday that there’s "nothing" in this package for the southern border. "Not one penny of this should be spent. None of these bills should go forward and any Republican...

The crisis in Cuba has seen its government approach the United Nations for aid to address its food shortage, as residents take to the streets in a rare sign of social unrest Cuba is "on the verge of total collapse" as the country has been hit by blackouts with residents taking to the streets calling for "food and power". The crisis has seen the Cuban government approach the United Nations for aid to address its food shortage. As the Caribbean island goes through its harshest economic crisis in three decades, the communist regime is resorting to hitherto unseen cries for...

U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) raised the alarm over a bill that would send billions of U.S. dollars to Ukraine, telling Tucker Carlson that he and other lawmakers are doing everything they can to “kill” the legislation. In Episode 74 of Carslon’s show on X, the senator detailed the red flags in funding Ukraine’s war and what is being done to derail what he called out as “political calculation” in the bill. Carlson kicked off the episode on Monday with an assessment of the futility of funding Ukraine’s ongoing war with Russia, saying “It’s not simply a fool’s errand, it’s...

Jack Poso 🇺🇸 @JackPosobiec BREAKING: Trump calls for end to foreign aid, says US should only give loans https://thepostmillennial.com/just-in-trump-

@simonateba JUST IN: Trump writes, “From this point forward, are you listening U.S. Senate? No money in the form of foreign aid should be given to any country unless it is done as a loan, not just a giveaway. “It can be loaned on extraordinarily good terms, like no interest and an unlimited life, but a loan nevertheless. “The deal should be contingent that the U.S. is helping you, as a nation, but if the country we are helping ever turns against us, or strikes it rich sometime in the future, the loan will be paid off and the money...

The Senate advanced the national security supplemental delivering tens of billions of dollars in aid to Ukraine, Taiwan and Israel, putting the legislation on the potential path to passage in the coming days.After months of bipartisan handwringing, enough Republican senators voted to advance the bill to put it over the 60-vote threshold, after they rejected a version that included border policy changes on Wednesday. But there's a ways to go yet — senators are still negotiating the terms of eventual passage. (snip) The Republican senators who supported advancing the legislation were: GOP Leader Mitch McConnell, Senate Minority Whip John Thune...