Summary
Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the completion of the Trump administration’s six-week purge of USAID programs, eliminating 83% of the agency’s initiatives.
The remaining 18% will move under State Department control.
The administration claims eliminated programs “did not serve the core national interests” of the US. Critics argue the shutdown is illegal without congressional approval.
Aid groups report even life-saving programs received termination notices. The rapid dismantling has left thousands unemployed and billions in unpaid contracts, with many USAID staff still stranded overseas awaiting travel expenses.
So now he will hand everyone a wad of hard, cold cash he have saved. Just as he promised, right?
These assholes are trading countless human lives to line already obscenely rich people. The children deserve justice.
Thanks you Trump for finally eliminating US soft power. Once no nation sees any benefits in close relationships with the US and actively hates it, the US will truly be a wealthier and more powerful super power than ever before!
(I’m being sarcastic, jfc this is so stupid and cruel)
So now that we’re not wasting money on other countries we’re gonna help Americans, right?
The money was mostly given to American companies and created American jobs. Most of the money went to Americans, who focused their energies on helping other countries.
What, you don’t feel richer already???
100%. American billionaires…and one South African because the illegal immigrant label doesn’t apply to white people.
There’s multiple South Africans backing Krasnov.
Of course. And by that, they mean land and business owners who cozy up to the cabal, not the “lowly NPC masses”.
Absolutely. A very, very, small percentage of Americans.
I am so proud that my country is actively starving people and denying them medical care around the world, just like at home. Spreading the American way!
(do I really need to add the /s?)
Nothing says 'Murica like a homoerotic beefcake. 💙
The United States Agency of International Development… Is also a big part of how the CIA pays for the maintenance of the American world order overseas, which benefits America, and goes against the interests of places like Russia, and China.
From Wikipedia:
U.S. national interests
Congress appropriates exceptional financial assistance to allies to support U.S. geopolitical interests, mainly in the form of “Economic Support Funds” (ESF). USAID is called on to administer the bulk (90%) of ESF[67] and is instructed: “To the maximum extent feasible, [to] provide [ESF] assistance … consistent with the policy directions, purposes, and programs of [development assistance].”[68]
Basically that’s jargon for, we do CIA stuff to maintains US interests. Gotta fund protestors in Russia or Iran? The money is probably going through USAID. Rebels in Chad? That’ll be USAID money. Fund Israeli scouts to patrol the oil rich Golan Heights in Syria? CIA to USAID to Israel.
Without USAID America’s ability to effect ecents overseas will be diminished, allowing other players a greater amount of influence, for their global interests.
What’s funny to me is that a party made of people that go on RELIGIOUS MISSIONS don’t seem to understand the concept.
So traitorous GOP doing traitorous GOP stuff by weakening the US worldwide. Understood.
There is currently no standard irony or sarcasm punctuation.
Until there is one, you can use some other symbol for irony punctuation. Like ⸮, ‽, ¡ or ¿.
You can also use the rolleyes emote 🙄, strategic italics, and even rAndOMcASe capitalization.
Just don’t use the SarcMark™. A trademarked punctuation mark you have to pay to use is one of the most bullshit forms of capitalist bullshit one can imagine. Fuck that shit with a white-hot iron rebar.
Oh, before I forget, there’s also the snarkmark ( .~ ). Works like the SarcMark™, but you don’t have to tell the world you are an idiot for paying to use a punctuation mark.
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Now we will eliminate the waste, fraud, and abuse in the military budget, right? Right?
Hooray… We did it…
