S.O.S. Rubio: USAID "Has Officially Come To An End"

[SavannahMann]

Clinton did it because he had a Gingrich led congress that forced his hand. But that isnt relevant to what needs to be done today. Explain how we get out of our deficit problem today.

So the tax increases in his first year in office didn't have anything to do with it? The cuts he made to the budget before Newt took the Speakers Gavel were accidental?

 

[jaypatriot]

The end of our most powerful foreign policy tool.

Well done lil Marco.

And all of those countries we have helped for 75 years really love us because of our generosity, right? What if they really don't like us and vote against us in the United Nations?

 

[eohrnberger]

Who do you think will fill the aid vacuum? China.
And guess who will be able to use that as geopolitical leverage? China.
And who will get looked at as the Ebenezer Scrooge of the world? America.

As you bemoan the results of the USAID being disbanded, keep in mind what brought that disbanding about.

Democrats leaders are calling for war and fighting in the streets because Trump plans to cut foreign aid on things like a trans comic in Peru. Millions of dollars of waste to push leftist philosophy around the world. The sky is falling yet again. Wolf wolf wolf cry’s the boy……

“Here is the list of USAID expenses:

• $50 million to fund condoms in Gaza
• $1.5 million to advance DEI in Serbia's workplaces
• $70,000 for the production of a DEI musical in Ireland
• $47,000 on a transgender opera in Colombia
• $32,000 for a transgender comic in Peru
• $37 million to the World Health Organization
• $16 million in funding for institutional contractors in gender development offices
• $4 million of funding for the Center for Climate-Positive Development
• $12 million in support services to the Bureau for Resilience, Environment, and Food Security
• $6 million in non-emergency funding for redundant administrative supports for the Center of Excellence
• $3 million in non-emergency funding to provide evaluation services for planning and learning programs
• $600,000 to fund technical assistance for family planning in Latin America”

That’s 76,000,000 rubbers for Gaza lol. 95 rubbers for ever resident at Amazon Trojan prices.

Actually calling for violence in our streets. Words like FIGHT lol remember that word. When Trump said it leftists went nuts. Now it’s perfectly fine and in this case they are actually calling for war in the streets. Pathetic.

USAID Official and 3 Others Plead Guilty After Decade-Long, Half-Billion Dollar Bribery Scheme Falls Apart​

An official with a government agency that President Donald Trump targeted for elimination has pleaded guilty, along with three businessmen, to being part of a decade-long bribery scheme that involved more than $500 million in taxpayer money, the Justice Department has announced.​

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In a news release published Thursday, the DOJ said Roderick Watson, 57, a contracting officer with the U.S. Agency for International Development, steered contracting work to specific companies in return for bribes.​

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The payments, according to the release, included "cash, laptops, thousands of dollars in tickets to a suite at an NBA game, a country club wedding, downpayments on two residential mortgages, cellular phones, and jobs for relatives."​

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The three businessmen involved in the long-term scheme were identified in the release as Walter Barnes, 46, of Potomac, Maryland; Darryl Britt, 64, of Myakka City, Florida; and Paul Young, 62, of Columbia, Maryland.​

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Watson has pleaded guilty to bribery of a public official, according to the release. Barnes, Britt, and Young have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to bribe a public official, according to the news release. Each of the four faces a maximum prison term of five years.​

https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/...dollar-bribery-scheme-falls-apart/ar-AA1GKnbc

Had not USAID been turned into a corrupt extremist leftist social causes flush fund, feeding corrupt leftist NGOs; had it remained as it was originally intentioned by Kennedy, there would have been no reason to shut it down.

But the Dems, Libs, and Progs did what they always do, and now USAID (the originally intentioned by Kennedy version) is yet another one of their casualties.

This is what happens when you don't think things out.

Yeah, apparently the Dems, Libs, and Progs in their over eagerness to push their extremist leftist social agenda world wide, didn't think things out.

 

[eohrnberger]

Clinton did it because he had a Gingrich led congress that forced his hand. But that isnt relevant to what needs to be done today. Explain how we get out of our deficit problem today.

Let's not forget the accounting gimmick which Clinton used to achieve his alleged balanced budget.

 

[The Brad Dad]

Wow. Right on cue.

Details Released About Wasteful Spending at USAID​

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As CBN News reported this week, U.S. Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told the press what USAID has been funding.​

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She said, "These are some of the insane priorities that that organization has been spending money on:​

• $1.5 million to advance DEI in Serbia's workplaces.
• $70,000 for a production of a DEI musical in Ireland.
• $47,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia.
• $32,000 for a transgender comic book in Peru.

That was just the tip of the iceberg.​

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Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) published another list of projects and programs she says the agency has funded over the years until DOGE stepped in.​

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"From funneling tax dollars to risky research in Wuhan to sending Ukrainians to Paris Fashion Week, USAID is one of the worst offenders of waste in Washington… all around the world," Ernst posted to X this week.​

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The Iowa senator gave more detail in a thread noting the organization spent millions on wasteful projects including:​

• "A whopping $20 million to create a Sesame Street in Iraq
• $2 million for Moroccan pottery classes and promotion
• $2 million promoting tourism to Lebanon
• More than $9 million of USAID's 'humanitarian aid' intended to feed civilians in Syria ended up in the hands of violent terrorists, including an affiliate of Al Qaeda in Iraq."

Ernst points out that millions of dollars were sent to farmers in Afghanistan to get them to grow food crops instead of opium.​

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A White House fact sheet also contends that American taxpayer dollars were inadvertently used to fund terrorism.​

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It notes:​

• As much as $10 million was used by an al Qaeda-linked group for meals.
• $78,000 to a non-profit linked to designated terrorist organizations including Pakistan's Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation — even after an inspector general launched an investigation.
• $15 million in taxpayer funds to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan to help distribute 'oral contraceptives and condoms.'

The fact sheet lists millions of dollars in additional wasteful spending, including:​

• $6 million was used to fund tourism in Egypt
• $2.5 million for electric vehicles for Vietnam
• $1.5 million to 'advance diversity equity and inclusion in Serbia's workplaces and business communities.'

The exhaustive list of "egregious waste" continues as Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) recently pointed out that USAID "spent a million dollars to help disabled people in Tajikistan become climate leaders."​

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"If you are a left-wing radical activist this is music to your ears, but if you are just an American taxpayer it is horrifying, which is why President Trump came in and said enough is enough," Cruz said.​

White House Releases List of USAID 'Waste and Abuse' on Everything from Al Qaeda to Trans Operas

The Trump administration presented a plan Thursday to gut and largely dismantle the U.S.

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Looking at this list of questionable programs which USAID funded, I'm hard pressed to find any which qualify as fellow humans or aids those in dire situations'.

You guys spent 4 years declaring a national election result was fraudulent but now straight quoting state propaganda to make an argument.

 

[SkyChief]

American kindness and charity...who needs it? Amirite?

Kindness and charity should come from the heart (the church) - not the government. There are numerous foreign aid entities to which anyone can donate to if they are so inclined:

UK FCDO
Global Affairs Canada
Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency
OFDA (Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance)
German Federal Foreign Office
European Union
et. al.

 

[Slavister]

I consider it positive thinking.

Saying something that you hope for is quite different than predicting future without any qualifiers and being wrong over and over again.

 

[Dans La Lune]

Earlier today, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the official end of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Rubio noted that decades of U.S. foreign assistance had failed to deliver results for America:

“Development objectives have rarely been met, instability has often worsened, and anti-American sentiment has only grown. This era of government-sanctioned inefficiency has officially come to an end.”

Rubio also said that the U.S. will sustain some foreign assistance programs, but those "which advance American interests":

"As of July 1st, USAID will officially cease to implement foreign assistance. Foreign assistance programs that align with administration policies - and which advance American interests - will be administered by the State Department, where they will be delivered with more accountability, strategy, and efficiency. We will favor those nations that have demonstrated both the ability and willingness to help themselves and will target our resources to areas where they can have a multiplier effect and catalyze durable private sector, including American companies, and global investment,"

Former president Barack Obama rebuked the Trump Administration for shuttering USAID:

"Gutting USAID is a travesty and it's a tragedy. Because it’s some of the most important work happening anywhere in the world," - Barack Obama

facts to know: USAID was established in 1961 by JFK. According to government data, USAID redistributed $61 Billion of U.S. taxpayer funding to foreign countries last year.

source of quotes: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/usaid-programs-now-run-state-department-agency-ends/story?id=123373289

Where are the savings going?

 

[Dans La Lune]

America is ****ed anyways. Who cares what they do with their waning reputation and power?

 

[ColdHardTruth]

Saying something that you hope for is quite different than predicting future without any qualifiers and being wrong over and over again.

I haven't been wrong yet.

The orange traitor will eventually fall.

 

[SkyChief]

Where are the savings going?

People who pay taxes have less of a burden to support other countries. We can now channel that some funding towards helping the poor in the U.S.

. . . it's a part of Trump's "America First" agenda.

 

[ColdHardTruth]

People who pay taxes have less of a burden to support other countries. We can now channel that some funding towards helping the poor in the U.S.

. . . it's a part of Trump's "America First" agenda.

"America First" is a KKK slogan and you should not be using it.

 

[SkyChief]

"America First" is a KKK slogan and you should not be using it.

"America First" is why voters elected Trump. TWICE.

America First leads to MAGA.

"In trade, military and EVERYTHING else, it will be AMERICA FIRST! This will quickly lead to our ultimate goal: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!" - Trump

 

[ColdHardTruth]

"America First" is why voters elected Trump. TWICE.

"America First" is a KKK slogan. Using it is racist and shameful.

America First leads to MAGA.

"In trade, military and EVERYTHING else, it will be AMERICA FIRST! This will quickly lead to our ultimate goal: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!" - Trump

It's a KKK slogan. Using it is racist.

 

[Slavister]

I haven't been wrong yet.

Uh... see post #55.

 

[ColdHardTruth]

Uh... see post #55.

The game is not over yet. I will admit, I did not expect dumpletits to get elected. I think Musk's money had a great deal to do with that.

 

[rahl]

Let's not forget the accounting gimmick which Clinton used to achieve his alleged balanced budget.