President Trump and Elon Musk have taken steps to close The United States Agency for International Development, or USAID, in the past two weeks. Here's what the agency does, and why the new administration is targeting it.
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Contact your governor and state AG. Also Trump is willingly letting this happen, under section four of articles of impeachment, he can be removed based on incompetence.
USAID has been funding subversion of sovereign nations through organisations such as the National Endowment for Democracy and without doubt many other entities who are cut outs of the CIA.
The end of this pernicious organisation (USAID) is a matter for rejoicing, not mourning or wailing in agony.
Yes, Congress appropriates the funds, but it is overreach of the executive that shuttered the agency and blocked the funds that had been approved cutting off food that was already secured and leaving MILLIONS of humans starving. Seems like an "A" grade in journalism to me. What am I missing?
Real journalists would be exposing every damn thing this asshat is doing to our government, from the inside, with his handful of hackers. Oh but look, the Grammy’s!!
Only 1-2% of the whole federal budget goes to foreign aid.
Elon is like that character in Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986 Whoopee Goldberg movie) who figured out how to steal millions by skimming a few pennies here & a few there. Except Elon's doing it on a scale of billions—of *our* tax dollars.
Nobody would love the dismantling of the USAID more than Putin. That's the #TRUTH. That's all anyone needs to know. Trump and Musk are openly pro-Russia and anti-American. This is treason.
Could you explain this to me like in High school. How can a Private citizen like President Non-elect Muskrat can close US Aid? And the GOP allows this to go on?
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Sadly the demonization of the poor allows them to be seen as "subhuman" so any attacks are "okay". 🤦♂️
The end of this pernicious organisation (USAID) is a matter for rejoicing, not mourning or wailing in agony.
Like this one.
Quit pulling your punches, NYT. It's disgraceful.
You're being paid by that turd to whitewash him.
It's as if Trump gets pleasure out of bullying and creating a near financial market crash!
This is the most terrible, chaotic, and juvenile US President ever!
Elon is like that character in Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986 Whoopee Goldberg movie) who figured out how to steal millions by skimming a few pennies here & a few there. Except Elon's doing it on a scale of billions—of *our* tax dollars.
You are failing to meet the moment, NYT.
Fuck off NYT, fuck off
Billionaires, Mega-Corporations, and the American Media/Press are driving MAGA policy at the expense of democracy, "an absolute seizure"
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