My dear, you are free to believe the data I've given you or whatever the WaPo says. Your choice, and I'm not going to waste any more time on it.
As I've noted two times now: the trump administration didn't define "life-saving". That's a glaring omission, when it comes to the administration that summarily shut down and cut off global aid.
Still waiting for you to acknowledge that some people have died from Trump and Musk shutting down USAID.
Gee, no headlines about the millions of lives saved every year.
Actually finding what they claimed they would find is not what is important to MAGATS et al, what is the only important thing is what DOGE and KING MAGAT aka Donny Trump claimed they would find!
Time to shut down the entire $1 trillion Department of Defense.....since there are literally billions of dollars completely unaccounted for.
It has been established that less than 1/5th of the money was spent as designated. The State Department also took over several USAID programs.
I would not be surprised at that which I made bold. For a curious minded person might you have a source link to that establishing data?
No one compliments WaPo on their restraint, then they use themselves as the fact-checker
It has been established that less than 1/5th of the money was spent as designated. The State Department also took over several USAID programs.
I don't see a word about either of those points, just the bombast.
Why do you tolerate the greedy corrupt Democrats politicians stealing from the poor.
It hasn't been "established"....except in your MAGA mind.
No one compliments WaPo on their restraint, then they use themselves as the fact-checker
It has been established that less than 1/5th of the money was spent as designated. The State Department also took over several USAID programs.
www.unlockaid.org
www.pewresearch.org
You said the money was not spent "as designated". That is incorrect. Paying salaries of aid workers and other administrative costs are always part of contracts and delivering goods.Follow the Money
There's not a lot foreign about foreign aid. Most of it goes to a handful of insiders that keep most of the money for themselves. Meantime, frontline communities can't access the resources they need. We built this site to lay it all out.
The keyword is directly. The bulk of USAID's money went to Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) and international organizations. In both cases, transparency is restricted.
This is not specific to USAID.
What the data says about U.S. foreign aid
The $71.9 billion in foreign aid that the government spent in fiscal year 2023 works out to 1.2% of that year’s total federal spending.
Who are "they"? Everyone involved? A few bad apples?
Since you did not bother to check the source, this may be helpful.
And, how would finding $200 billion this year ever mean that they will continue to find $200 billion each year for the next nine years? Does your brain shut down because critical thinking is a foreign concept to you?
It doesn't, and the people who found it this year won't be in control for all of the next nine years. We can only hope that the people who are in control understand what's going to happen to all the non-discretionary budget items if they don't.
The money is still being spent as designated. That is not fraud.
When a charity spends more than 5% of receipts on overhead it's considered high.
You say probably.
Are you also demanding that the Dept of Defense be shut down, since there are literally billions of dollars that are unaccounted for and the DoD has not passed a financial audit in years?
Deflection noted.
I have been entirely consistent.
Only one of us is coming across unprepared.
