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Posted By: ladydawgfan, 2/5/2025 6:53:25 PM

This week, a massive firefight broke out between Democrats and Team Trump over the White House takeover of the U.S. Agency for International Development. The USAID managed approximately $40 billion in fiscal year 2023; its original mandate, established under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, was to spread American influence across the globe through aid to various governmental and non-governmental organizations. Over time, however, USAID morphed into a piggy bank for a wide variety of international organizations with agendas ranging from green energy policy to the spread of left-wing gender and racial politics. President Donald Trump tasked Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) with taking charge

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You catch the most flak when you are over the target!! AFAIC, the entire USAID business needs to be completely obliterated and started over from scratch, but with absolute oversight, transparency and set laws and rules on exactly what can be funded.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: edgar 2/5/2025 7:03:45 PM (No. 1890272)
This is why approving Continuing Resolutions for government spending should be outlawed.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: jeffkinnh 2/5/2025 7:54:10 PM (No. 1890301)
"a grinding fear that their permanent, bureaucratic structures of power are under existential assault." And isn't it glorious. Armageddon for the programs and agencies the dems use to carry out their corrupt purposes.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: DVC 2/5/2025 10:44:48 PM (No. 1890408)
Trump's team found their backdoor into the treasury and closed it. This frightens them, and frighten little men can get dangerous.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: DiegoDude 2/6/2025 5:57:06 AM (No. 1890503)
The flak over the USAID scandal is as thick as a WWII bombing run over Germany. Over target is a mild understatement.
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