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House Passes Trump-Backed Rescissions Package Slashing $9 BILLION in Bloated Spending — FOREIGN AID, NPR, and PBS on the Chopping Block — Two Republic

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“This package eliminates $9 billion in unnecessary and wasteful spending at the State Department, USAID, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The American people will no longer be forced to fund politically biased media and more than $8 billion in outrageous expenses overseas. While Republicans continue to deliver real accountability, restore fiscal discipline, and protect taxpayer dollars, Democrats continue to defend waste, fraud, and abuse. This isn’t the end, it’s the beginning. We look forward to passing additional rescissions bills throughout the 119th Congress.”

The first rescissions package that has passed in over thirty years!
 

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Sadly the only things bloated now are the stomachs of the babies and children dying of malnutrition in Gaza and Africa and the third world.
 
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Sadly the only things bloated now are the stomachs of the babies and children dying of malnutrition in Gaza and Africa and the third world.
You can’t give hungry kids handouts. However will they learn the value of hard work? In the long run burning tons and tons of food is actually doing them a favour.
 
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“This package eliminates $9 billion in unnecessary and wasteful spending at the State Department, USAID, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The American people will no longer be forced to fund politically biased media and more than $8 billion in outrageous expenses overseas. While Republicans continue to deliver real accountability, restore fiscal discipline, and protect taxpayer dollars, Democrats continue to defend waste, fraud, and abuse. This isn’t the end, it’s the beginning. We look forward to passing additional rescissions bills throughout the 119th Congress.”

The first rescissions package that has passed in over thirty years!
Never thought I would see the day where helping the disenfranchised would be considered as "waste". But then again, we were warned by Jesus Christ of Nazareth what would occur as the condition of the heart would begin to deteriorate then be revealed in such a way.

Mark 7:21-23
"For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries, covetings, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: all these evil things come from within, and defile the man."
 
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I remember when Christians wanted the poor and downtrodden to be helped; at least as a mindset.

It's like trump supporters are getting behind those city counsels that prosecuted Christians feeding the homeless.

Trump turned some Christians into callous people. And I'm pretty sure there were some biblical warnings about that.
 
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And some of their pastors have so distorted the lessons and words of Jesus that their congregants believe that mistreating your neighbor is God's command.
 
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I remember when Christians wanted the poor and downtrodden to be helped; at least as a mindset.
It seems like a lot of Christians think those sentiments are inauthentic and were inserted in to the Bible for devious ideological purposes.
 
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You can’t give hungry kids handouts. However will they learn the value of hard work? In the long run burning tons and tons of food is actually doing them a favour.
LOL, I had to read that several times to catch the sarcasm because sometimes you never know here.
 
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“This package eliminates $9 billion in unnecessary and wasteful spending at the State Department, USAID, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The American people will no longer be forced to fund politically biased media and more than $8 billion in outrageous expenses overseas. While Republicans continue to deliver real accountability, restore fiscal discipline, and protect taxpayer dollars, Democrats continue to defend waste, fraud, and abuse. This isn’t the end, it’s the beginning. We look forward to passing additional rescissions bills throughout the 119th Congress.”

The first rescissions package that has passed in over thirty years!

The world's wealthiest country, holding 30% of global wealth, is unwilling to spend $8 billion to address global hunger and poverty. This is especially ironic considering some citizens identify as Christian.
 
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It seems like a lot of Christians think those sentiments are inauthentic and were inserted in to the Bible for devious ideological purposes.
You mean they are misled to believe.
 
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I remember when Christians wanted the poor and downtrodden to be helped; at least as a mindset.

It's like trump supporters are getting behind those city counsels that prosecuted Christians feeding the homeless.

Trump turned some Christians into callous people. And I'm pretty sure there were some biblical warnings about that.
Trump's Christians were like that already. He's just empowering them.
 
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The said part is that Congress gave him a signed BBB (big bad bill) and he sent it back.
Not cruel enough.
Not anti first amendment enough.
What? Poor children might be fed? No!
Not bad enough. SMH.
 
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There's nothing stopping Americans from contributing to numerous organizations that send food and aid to other countries.
Indeed, with the tax cuts Americans should be able to choose the organizations to donate to that will best help those in need instead of organizations loyal to the Democrats.
 
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The said part is that Congress gave him a signed BBB (big bad bill) and he sent it back.
Not cruel enough.
Not anti first amendment enough.
What? Poor children might be fed? No!
Not bad enough. SMH.
I wonder how many people who talk about poor children being fed, send generous contributions to UNICEF and similar. My guess is not nearly enough.
 
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“This package eliminates $9 billion in unnecessary and wasteful spending at the State Department, USAID, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The American people will no longer be forced to fund politically biased media and more than $8 billion in outrageous expenses overseas. While Republicans continue to deliver real accountability, restore fiscal discipline, and protect taxpayer dollars, Democrats continue to defend waste, fraud, and abuse. This isn’t the end, it’s the beginning. We look forward to passing additional rescissions bills throughout the 119th Congress.”

The first rescissions package that has passed in over thirty years!
Bravo Mr. President another thing former Presidents spoke of, but never did.

You can tell when he is being effective by the volumes of screeching from the left.
 
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Indeed, with the tax cuts Americans should be able to choose the organizations to donate to that will best help those in need instead of organizations loyal to the Democrats.
That's happening, of course, been going on all the time, really. The biggest single recipient of USAID funds was Catholic Relief Services, which I assume was the kind of organization you meant. But they didn't get all their funding from USAID and are certainly not going out of business over it.
 
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The world's wealthiest country, holding 30% of global wealth, is unwilling to spend $8 billion to address global hunger and poverty. This is especially ironic considering some citizens identify as Christian.
It certainly dispels the myth that the United States is a "Christian nation".
 
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