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  • Bush teams up with notorious Trump foes to trash ‘colossal mistake’ shuttering USAID

    07/03/2025 8:54:15 AM PDT · by thegagline · 58 replies
    The New York Post ^ | 07/03/2025 | Emma Colton
    Former President George W. Bush joined up with former President Barack Obama and U2 singer Bono to comfort United States Agency for International Development employees Monday, while also taking shots at President Donald Trump and his administration for shuttering the agency plagued by accusations of fraud and abuse. “Gutting USAID is a travesty, and it’s a tragedy,” Obama said in a video that was shown to departing USAID employees Monday, according to the Associated Press. “Because it’s some of the most important work happening anywhere in the world.” Obama summed up the decision to shutter the agency as “a colossal...
  • ABSURD: CNN reports that Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced the OFFICIAL dismantling of USAID. Their first reaction? "Its closure could contribute to some 14 MILLION DEATHS in the next five years!"

    07/02/2025 9:34:48 AM PDT · by DFG · 40 replies
    X ^ | 07/01/2025 | Townhall
    ABSURD: CNN reports that Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced the OFFICIAL dismantling of USAID. Their first reaction? "Its closure could contribute to some 14 MILLION DEATHS in the next five years!"
  • George Bush launches rare critique of Trump

    07/02/2025 10:50:01 AM PDT · by RandFan · 111 replies
    The Telegraph ^ | July 2 | Cameron Henderson
    George W Bush has issued a rare critique of Donald Trump over his shuttering of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The former president joined Barack Obama and U2 singer Bono in an emotional video call farewell with staff at the agency on Monday when it officially ceased operations. After six decades, the humanitarian organisation created by former president John F Kennedy to promote US national security by boosting prosperity and goodwill abroad, is being absorbed into the State Department under the supervision of Marco Rubio. Speaking to thousands of agency staff on the video conference, Mr Bush...
  • U.N. Chief Guterres Calls for $4 Trillion in Aid Donations to ‘Turn the World Around’

    07/02/2025 5:35:38 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 47 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 07/02/2025 | Simon Kent
    U.N. chief Antonio Guterres wants to “turn the world around” but is lacking in one thing: other people’s money. On Monday the veteran Portuguese socialist acknowledged the financial shortfall and demanded the world step up and give to the globalist organization to fill the gap in aid donations. Guterres made his call at a meeting in Valencia, Spain, citing a “$4 trillion financing gap” as cause for immediate action. He noted “massive headwinds” exist since U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew USAID contributions to U.N. projects soon after he returned to the White House via the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)...
  • Rubio: USAID Closed After Decades Of Funding Posh Lifestyles Of ‘Countless’ NGO Execs

    07/01/2025 6:49:48 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 32 replies
    DailyWire.com ^ | Jul 1, 2025 | Tim Pearce
    “USAID viewed its constituency as the United Nations, multinational NGOs, and the broader global community — not the U.S. taxpayers.”The Trump administration has officially shuttered the United States Agency for International Development after rolling its operations into the State Department.Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the end of the independent agency on Tuesday. Rubio said USAID funds would be better managed and more effective under State Department oversight than they have been in decades.“USAID had decades and a near-infinite taxpayer budget to advance American influence, promote economic development worldwide, and allow billions to stand on their own two feet,” Rubio...
  • Bush, Obama and a tearful Bono fault Trump’s gutting of USAID on agency’s last day

    07/01/2025 7:55:38 AM PDT · by Twotone · 66 replies
    CNBC ^ | June 30, 2025 | Ellen Knickmeyer
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush delivered rare open criticism of the Trump administration — and singer Bono held back tears as he recited a poem — in an emotional video farewell on Monday with staffers of the U.S. Agency for International Development. Obama called the Trump administration’s dismantling of USAID “a colossal mistake.” Monday was the last day as an independent agency for the six-decade-old humanitarian and development organization, created by President John F. Kennedy as a peaceful way of promoting U.S. national security by boosting goodwill and prosperity abroad. Secretary of State Marco...
  • George W. Bush Joins Obama in Rebuke of Trump

    07/01/2025 1:10:37 AM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 176 replies
    Newsweek ^ | Jun 30, 2025 | Jenna Sundel and Gabe Whisnant
    Former Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama publicly condemned the Trump administration's dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), joining legendary singer Bono in an emotional farewell via videoconference to the shuttered aid service. Obama, a Democrat, called the decision "a colossal mistake," while the Republican Bush denounced the cuts to his signature HIV/AIDS relief program, asking, "Is it in our national interests that 25 million people who would have died now live? I think it is, and so do you." Bono, appearing as a surprise guest, fought back tears as he honored the agency's workers, calling...
  • World leaders gather in Seville for UN aid summit amid crisis over US funding cuts

    06/30/2025 6:14:24 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 33 replies
    France24 ^ | June 30, 2025
    A UN conference to boost support for global development aid begins on Monday as US funding cuts jeopardise the fight against poverty. But key player the United States is snubbing the biggest such talks in a decade, underlining the erosion of international cooperation on combating hunger, disease and climate change. UN sustainable development goals set for 2030 are slipping from reach just as the world's wealthiest countries are withdrawing funding for development programmes. President Donald Trump's gutting of the US development agency USAID is the standout example, with Germany, Britain and France among other rich economies making cuts when faced...
  • EXCLUSIVE: Trump admin takes action after massive fraud uncovered at agency Dems tried to protect from DOGE (USAID)

    06/29/2025 2:59:19 AM PDT · by Libloather · 43 replies
    Fox News ^ | 6/27/25 | Peter Pinedo, Andrew Mark Miller
    Following the uncovering of a massive bribery scandal at USAID, the Small Business Administration (SBA) is ordering a full audit of all government contracting officers who have exercised grant-awarding authority under the agency’s business development program over the last 15 years. **SNIP** Despite claims of how much good the agency was doing, it was recently discovered that an influential contracting officer at USAID named Roderick Watson was able to carry out a massive, long-term bribery scheme dating all the way back to 2013. Watson, 57, pleaded guilty to "bribery of a public official," according to a DOJ press release. According...
  • Trump says he will move aggressively to undo nationwide blocks on his agenda

    06/28/2025 10:43:47 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 47 replies
    The Washington Post ^ | June 28, 2025 10:29 a.m. EDT | Justin Jouvenal , Cat Zakrzewski and Jeremy Roebuck
    Emboldened by Friday’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling, the president said his administration will flex its authority on issues ranging from immigration to higher education.An emboldened Trump administration plans to aggressively challenge blocks on the president’s top priorities, a White House official said, following a major Supreme Court ruling that limits the power of federal judges to issue nationwide injunctions.Government attorneys will press judges to pare back the dozens of sweeping rulings thwarting the president’s agenda “as soon as possible,” said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe internal deliberations.Priorities for the administration include injunctions related to...
  • World Economic Forum Aims to Repair Relations with Schwab

    06/26/2025 8:43:40 AM PDT · by delta7 · 4 replies
    Armstrong Economics ^ | 26 Jun 25 | Martin Armstrong
    World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab stepped down from his chairman position at the organization on April 20, 2025, amid accusations of fraud. Our computer had forecast that the WEF would enter a declining trend with the 2024 ECM turning point. This staged coup happened about 37 years after the first Davos meeting (8.6 x 4.3). From our model’s perspective, this was right on time. Now, Schwab and the WEF are working to repair ties. An anonymous whistleblower claimed that Klaus Schwab and his wife collaborated with USAID to steal tens of millions in funding. The whistleblower has always been...
  • Put the Nails in the USAID Coffin

    06/23/2025 1:30:26 PM PDT · by fwdude · 25 replies
    Chronicles ^ | June 23, 2025 | Eric Bordenkirche
    The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is irredeemable and must be eliminated through legislation. Failure to do so leaves the door open for future administrations to reinvigorate it and reintroduce destructive ideas and agendas into U.S. foreign policy. The idea of “development” has become too obtuse and colonized by progressives to keep the agency limited in scope beyond the Trump administration.
  • Missteps, Confusion and ‘Viral Waste’: The 14 Days That Doomed U.S.A.I.D.

    06/22/2025 12:52:07 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 20 replies
    The New York Times ^ | June 22, 2025, 5:00 a.m. ET | Christopher Flavelle, Nicholas Nehamas and Julie Tate
    The rapid dismantling of the global aid agency remains one of the most consequential outcomes of President Trump’s efforts to overhaul the federal government, showing his willingness to tear down institutions in defiance of the courts.It was the day of President Trump’s inauguration, and the U.S. Agency for International Development’s new director looked like he might pass out, as the color drained from his face. Jason Gray, U.S.A.I.D.’s chief information officer, who had been at the agency for only two years, had just learned he would be in charge, effective immediately. Mr. Gray wasn’t supposed to be the boss. The...
  • Four men have officially pleaded GUILTY to a $550 MILLION USAID fraud scheme

    06/20/2025 10:06:04 AM PDT · by RandFan · 16 replies
    X ^ | June 20 | nicksortor
    🚨 Four men have officially pleaded GUILTY to a $550 MILLION USAID fraud scheme And democrats pretended like @elonmusk's exposure of the agency was just a conspiracy theory They used YOUR tax dollars to buy NBA tickets, country club weddings, and laundered MILLIONS in cash through corrupt entities. One defendant "exploited his position at USAID to line his pockets with bribes in exchange for more than $550 million in contracts."
  • Guess Who’s POCKETING The $100 Million Donated To The LA FireAid Concert!

    06/19/2025 5:25:26 AM PDT · by SmokingJoe · 33 replies
    YouTube ^ | 06/19/2025 | Jimmy Dore Show
    The fire aid concert raised over a $100 Million, but where did all the money go? Jimmy Dore went to the the Annenberg Foundation who are in charge of the funds, to find out more. After repeated emails, phone calls, etc with no replies, they eventually heard from Barbara Chen of Annenberg. Turns out most of the money went into the pockets of NGO’s, etc with just 30% going to the actual victims of the fire. Anyone surprised? Nope. This is LA after all.
  • Inside the Chaos Swirling Through a D.N.C. Desperate for Cash

    06/18/2025 2:51:32 PM PDT · by NoLibZone · 36 replies
    NY Slimes ^ | By Shane Goldmacher and Reid J. Epstein
    Under its new leader, Ken Martin, the Democratic National Committee has been plagued by infighting and a drop in big donations, raising alarms from Democrats as they try to win back power. Just months into the tenure of a new party leader, Ken Martin, the Democratic National Committee’s financial situation has grown so bleak that top officials have discussed whether they might need to borrow money this year to keep paying the bills. Fund-raising from major donors — some of whom Mr. Martin has still not spoken with — has slowed sharply. At the same time, he has expanded the...
  • USAID Gave Known Con Man $800M Contract To Do Kamala’s Work On ‘Root Causes Of Migration’

    06/18/2025 7:48:40 AM PDT · by Twotone · 18 replies
    The Daily Wire ^ | June 17, 2025 | Luke Rosiak
    President Joe Biden’s USAID awarded an $800 million contract to a business operating out of a Virginia home even after it formally ruled that its key manager lacked “honesty or integrity” — a reference to the fact that, according to a May 12 guilty plea, he had secured USAID contracts through bribery for a decade. The contract was for addressing “issues affecting the root causes of irregular migration from Central America to the United States” — the work that Biden assigned to Vice President Kamala Harris, but which she never appeared to address, a Daily Wire investigation found. The Department...
  • Vance Boelter seen speaking at Democratic Republic of the Congo's seminar, videos surface | Watch

    06/15/2025 1:19:36 PM PDT · by DallasBiff · 46 replies
    Hindustan Times ^ | 6/15/25 | Sumanti Sen
    Vance Boelter’s videos surface One video on Facebook shows Boelter participating as a keynote speaker in his capacity as CEO of Red Lion Group for the seminar in 2022. He conducted the call from Moanda, Democratic Republic of the Congo and spoke of the Red Lion Group’s ventures in the African nation. On LinkedIn, he lists himself as the CEO of the Red Lion Group, based in the Democratic Republic of Congo. “This all started back in 2019, when my partner, McNay Nkashama, brought in the ambassador from the DRC to Minnesota, and we had meetings, the bulk of them...
  • USAID official, 3 execs plead guilty in bribery scheme with over $550 million in contracts

    06/13/2025 4:17:29 PM PDT · by lowbridge · 25 replies
    thepostmillenial.com ^ | June 13, 2025 | Thomas Stevenson
    A United States Agency of International Development (USAID) official as well as three corporate executives have pleaded guilty in a decades-long bribery scheme connected to over $550 million in contracts. According to a press release from the Department of Justice, four men pleaded guilty to the charges of being part of the bribery scheme. The USAID official in the case was Roderick Watson, 57, of Maryland, who was a contracting officer and pleaded guilty to bribery of a public official. Walter Barnes, 46, of Maryland; Darryl Britt, 64, of Florida; and Paul Young, 62, of Maryland all pleaded guilty to...
  • America's wokest DA spends $150k of taxpayer cash on PR FIRM after series of embarrassing scandals

    06/11/2025 2:43:42 PM PDT · by DFG · 6 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | 06/11/2025 | ALYSSA GUZMAN
    Minnesota's woke attorney is spending $150,000 of taxpayer money on a PR firm after a series of embarrassing scandals. Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty tapped the Wren Collective in a $150,000 deal which she says will be used to break down complex legal topics to the public. Moriarty has found herself engulfed in a series of recent scandals, including the Justice Department opening a civil rights investigation into her office after she allegedly ordered her staff to follow a policy that considered racial identity in cases. The DA also has also faced criticism for letting a state worker who keyed...