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Congressional delegation outside USAID now: “We are here to shed a light on a crime unfolding before our eyes.”

  
Via:  John Russell  •  3 weeks ago  •  13 comments


Congressional delegation outside USAID now: “We are here to shed a light on a crime unfolding before our eyes.”
 

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JohnRussell
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1  seeder  JohnRussell    3 weeks ago

No one elected Elon Musk to shut down government agencies and control the nations checkbook.  Lets have Trump go hog wild so we can bring all this to a head sooner rather than later.  Let the "war" begin and hopefully remain semi-civil. 

Trump announced today that Rupert Murdoch, who is a far right monstrosity, and about 150 years old is joining Trumps governing team as an advisor. 

 
 
 
Sean Treacy
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1.1  Sean Treacy  replied to  JohnRussell @1    3 weeks ago
Musk to shut down government agencies and control the nations checkbook

He isn't and can't. All he can do is recommend actions that the executive carries out.  It doesn't matter who announces them. 

 
 
 
Snuffy
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1.1.1  Snuffy  replied to  Sean Treacy @1.1    3 weeks ago

If you believe lame-stream media, it's Musk who's doing everything and Trump is just along for the ride. 

I'm much more concerned about those without the proper security clearances having access to classified information that they shouldn't have, as well as Musk having access to all the payment info for all the money the fed sends out including his direct competitors.  

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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2  seeder  JohnRussell    3 weeks ago
Sen.  Chris Murphy: "This is a constitutional crisis that we are in today. Let's call it what it is."
 
 
 
Sean Treacy
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2.1  Sean Treacy  replied to  JohnRussell @2    3 weeks ago
This is the Constitutional crisis that has Democrats freaking out today:
Do Democrats think they're going to stir a populist backlash to Trump moving a foreign aid agency's location in the executive org chart? What is this?...
Yes any minute now there will be a flood of calls from pissed off voters demanding that Trump, um, not reform the foreign aid agency's organizational structure. This is what happens when you think your NGO activist base is representative of the average voter.
 
 
 
JohnRussell
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2.1.1  seeder  JohnRussell  replied to  Sean Treacy @2.1    3 weeks ago

So your argument, which is laughable, is that when they get re-organized the aid will continue as before. Trump just lied this morning about 100 million dollars of condoms being sent to Hamas by the Biden administration.  Nothing Trump says, period, can be taken at face value.  Do you actually believe that is any way to run a country? 

 
 
 
Sean Treacy
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2.1.2  Sean Treacy  replied to  JohnRussell @2.1.1    3 weeks ago
s that when they get re-organized the aid will continue as before. T

No, why would it? Per its acting director, “The attitude that USAID has adopted over the years is ‘no, we are independent of the national interests, we fund programs irrespective of whether it is aligned or not aligned with the foreign policy.” Why should US taxpayers, drowning in debt, fund programs that don't align with its national interest?

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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3  seeder  JohnRussell    3 weeks ago

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Snuffy
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4.1  Snuffy  replied to  JohnRussell @4    3 weeks ago

What? So they haven't been slowing the process as much as they could have all along? 

 
 
 
Ed-NavDoc
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4.1.1  Ed-NavDoc  replied to  Snuffy @4.1    3 weeks ago

They have nowhere near the power they think they do.

 
 
 
George
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5  George    3 weeks ago

How many of the democrats BS can we get out before everyone tells them to fuck off again? we have an opening bid of constitutional crisis, do I hear dictator? a simple Nazi of fascist accusation?

And now a democrat senator is going to block trump nominees? who the fuck cares? they have all the power, the only thing missing is a title, tell him to go fuck himself and then block all aid that is legally possible to do so to his state, see how long his constituents think foreigners should be funded before them.

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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6  seeder  JohnRussell    3 weeks ago

america, land of the free and home of the dumbass -

  Polling has shown that U.S. adults tend to overestimate the share of the federal budget that is spent on foreign aid. Surveys from the Kaiser Family Foundation have found that on average, Americans say spending on foreign aid makes up 31% of the federal budget rather than closer to 1% or less.

 
 

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