• Starting today August 7th, 2024, in order to post in the Married Couples, Courting Couples, or Singles forums, you will not be allowed to post if you have your Marital status designated as private. Announcements will be made in the respective forums as well but please note that if yours is currently listed as Private, you will need to submit a ticket in the Support Area to have yours changed.

  • CF has always been a site that welcomes people from different backgrounds and beliefs to participate in discussion and even debate. That is the nature of its ministry. In view of recent events emotions are running very high. We need to remind people of some basic principles in debating on this site. We need to be civil when we express differences in opinion. No personal attacks. Avoid you, your statements. Don't characterize an entire political party with comparisons to Fascism or Communism or other extreme movements that committed atrocities. CF is not the place for broad brush or blanket statements about groups and political parties. Put the broad brushes and blankets away when you come to CF, better yet, put them in the incinerator. Debate had no place for them. We need to remember that people that commit acts of violence represent themselves or a small extreme faction.

Trump's Department of Government Efficiency Shuts Down USAID

Wolseley

Beaucoup-Diên-Cai-Dāu
Feb 5, 2002
22,027
6,710
65
By the shores of Gitchee-Goomee
✟395,896.00
Country
United States
Gender
Male
Faith
Catholic
Marital Status
Married
Politics
US-Others
article said:
Elon Musk, who formed DOGE with the Trump administration with the aim of finding ways to slash federal spending, claimed during the stream that USAID's work was "incredibly politically partisan" without offering evidence.

"As we dug into USAID, it became apparent that what we have here is not an apple with a worm it in but what we have actually just a ball of worms," Musk said.

"USAID is a ball of worms, there is no apple. And when there is no apple... you've just got to basically get rid of the whole thing. That is why it's got to go. It's beyond repair."

The Washington Post reported on Monday that staffers at USAID had been instructed to stay out of the agency's headquarters.

Trump told reporters on Sunday: "USAID has been run by a bunch of radical lunatics and we're getting them out and then we'll make a decision."

 

johansen

Well-Known Member
Sep 13, 2023
973
220
37
silverdale
✟94,857.00
Country
United States
Faith
Non-Denom
Marital Status
Married
read the book confessions of an economic hit man...

america's foreign experiments and expenditures have never been authentic. but its no different than any other country. money is given and interest is returned.. forever.

anyhow it doesn't look like its ending, just being rolled into the state department where at least the executive branch will be able to determine where the money is going.
 
Upvote 0