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The boundary know is what Trump likes. Nothing more, nothing less. It will take a while for all uppity judges and other members of government to get purged.The law is the boundary of what is allowable.
The law is the boundary of what is allowable.
Seems to have been done as illegally (extra-legally?) as the other recent IG firings.IG #18 has been fired.
The White House fired the independent inspector general for the U.S. Agency for International Development on Tuesday evening, a day after his office issued a blistering report assessing the impact of the Trump administration’s efforts to significantly curtail the agency’s mission.
“Look what happens when you write a report critical of this administration: They fire you the next day,” said Michael Missal, former inspector general at the Department of Veterans Affairs, who was among those fired by Trump last month. “This chills independent oversight, and that’s exactly what we need right now.”
The termination of Martin follows his office’s publication of a widely read report warning that more than $489 million in food assistance was at risk of spoilage or potential diversion after the Trump administration implemented its aid freeze and stop-work order.
Why bother. The people seen the bad things, that Trump did. And they still elected him. They don't care.
still almost entirely inaccurate
- $70,000 for production
Well gee, the WH is using Daily Mail and Breibart articles to try to justify their actions? Is that meant to be funny? When did they embrace this gish gallop concept I wonder.At USAID, Waste and Abuse Runs Deep
For decades, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has been unaccountable to taxpayers as it funnels massive sums of money to thewww.whitehouse.gov
Previous administrations used CNN and MSNBC, as well as other progressive liberal sources, to justify their actions.Well gee, the WH is using Daily Mail and Breibart articles to try to justify their actions? Is that meant to be funny? When did they embrace this gish gallop concept I wonder.
Farcical.
I'm sure you'll have some examples to indicate what you mean.Previous administrations used CNN and MSNBC, as well as other progressive liberal sources, to justify their actions.
Do you know how much money Congress allocates to USAID? From here: USAspending.gov
'How much funding is available to this agency?
$22.58 Billion in budgetary resources
0.2% of the FY 2025 U.S. federal budget'
See that percentage? It's 0.2% of the Fed budget. So even if these morons cut the spending by half they'd only save one tenth of one percent of the budget. But gee, it's a big number! Look! Over $22 billion!
Do you know what you guys spend on their pets each year? https://capitaloneshopping.com/research/pet-spending-statistics/
'Americans will spend a total of $150.6 billion on their pets by the end of 2024.'
This is just a shot in the dark but I'd bet that you, and very few people beside, had no idea of those figures.
USAID oversees projects such as food aid, disaster relief and health programs in over 100 countries with a staff of more than 10,000 and a budget of around $40 billion. Billions of those dollars flowed back into the American economy until President Donald Trump ordered a 90-day freeze on foreign-aid spending last month.
Now U.S. businesses that sold goods and services to USAID are in limbo. That includes American farms, which supply about 41 percent of the food aid that the agency, working with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, sends around the world each year, according to a 2021 report by the Congressional Research Service. In 2020, the U.S. government bought $2.1 billion in food aid from American farmers.
Purchases and shipments of U.S. food aid worth over $340 million — including rice, wheat and soybeans — have been paused during Trump’s foreign-aid freeze, according to officials and an email obtained by The Post. That has left hundreds of tons of American-grown wheat stranded in Houston alone, Rep. Angie Craig of Minnesota, the highest-ranking Democrat on the House Agriculture Committee, said Tuesday.
Let's save money by letting $340 million sit and rot. Even if one argues that all these cuts are good, this is a ham-fisted way to do it and will do more damage than is needed.
You know, this thought came to me: after unfortunately letting those accursed Left Behind books get into my head and sour the lens through which I viewed our planet (something I am slowly detoxing from, thank the Lord) the last couple of years, it dawned on me how many people I have seen over my years as a believer fretting and worrying over when "the Antichrist" is finally going to come into the world and begin the modern End Times period view that is the literal Rapture/Tribulation.
And all the while I can't help but think that: if there even is a specific future person called the Antichrist who is going to start a seven-year countdown to the end of the physical world, I would tell those folk who believe that futurist view that they should probably start looking at Trump* or Elon Musk with more wariness, because I can't really think of anything more anti-Christlike than calling a halt to obviously benevolent actions such as feeding undernourished and impoverished folk in foreign lands when we have the ability and means to, outside of straight up denying Christ Himself according to the words of 1 John 4:1-3.
* NOTE: No, I do not actually think that Trump might be The Antichrist who is going to damn so many of my Christian brothers and sisters to eternal torment by fooling them into worshipping him and taking "the mark". I'm not that paranoid, because I just don't think that Christians are meant to live their lives seeing Evil around every corner. I just think said brethren are sorely mistaken in excusing nearly everything he says just because they have been conditioned by our ridiculous political divide in this country to believe that no matter what, the other side is a hive mind 100% opposed to Jesus Christ.
FURTHER NOTE: I did not vote for Biden either.
The Trump administration's dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development has halted work at a network of farm research laboratories at land grant universities in 13 states, according to six lab directors.
The lab closures are another hit to U.S. agriculture from President Donald Trump's overhaul of the federal government, by blocking research work designed to advance seed and equipment technology and develop markets abroad for U.S. commodities.
The U.S. has stopped purchases for foreign food aid programs since the Trump administration began a sweeping review of federal aid spending, despite a waiver issued nearly two weeks ago for food assistance, according to nine sources.
The freeze in purchases of wheat, soybeans and other commodities produced by U.S. farmers could hinder or halt the operations of organizations that provide millions of tons of food each year to help alleviate poverty in countries such as Madagascar, Tanzania and Honduras, the sources said.
It also means added pain for U.S. farmers, already facing low commodity prices and uncertainty from potential tariffs in an emerging trade war, and who see foreign aid programs as opportunities to promote their farm products abroad, four of the sources said.
I don't think that anyone would disagree. But the point being made is that Joe Schmo will gladly complain about something without having any idea of that which he is complaining.To play devil's advocate, a small amount doesn't = "no ill effects when it's misused"
Which Russian agents, err, US jounalists?Another was to fund foreign journalism outlets to publish bogus reporting to accuse US journalists of being "Russian agents" with no proof. (if they dared to question US involvement in the Ukraine/Russia conflict)
Which Russian agents, err, US jounalists?
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