Closing USAID

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Anonymous wrote:If USAID information is in a scif the there is something seriously amiss.

Not really. Many of USAID’s overseas foreign partners don’t want to be advertised in their home country as taking US money. It can be dangerous on the ground for them. USAID reps take confidential meetings with foreign government representatives; those discussions would be classified. China is always trying to undercut USAID or sabotage projects, so we need to work carefully and discreetly.

You get that foreign aid is a competition, right? We are competing with Russia and China to influence these foreign governments

Why is it a competition? So it is a foreign influence/opposition-in-other/countries funding mechanism? Are the American people really signing up for this?

You say that like it’s a bad thing. I like America First and spreading our influence, values, and democracy. I’d also rather have stable developing countries, lowering the risk of refugee and health crises.

Yes, the American people signed up for this. it was established by law by Congress and enacted via EO by President Kennedy. The U.S. - by law - is required to have a foreign aid agency.

It is a bad thing. I don’t think we should be colonizing the planet with our values and influence. That’s a white supremacist/Nazi mindset. Especially when other governments feel we are funding internal opposition within their domestic affairs. I know I don’t want other governments influencing our domestic affairs—like Russian Facebook election meddling.

GWB blew through trillions of dollars and killed hundreds of thousands spreading democracy. I thought we learned our lesson about the folly there.

Mutually beneficial, non-coercive trade sounds great. Why are health initiatives, development and refugee prevention so secretive?

Helping prevent the spread of bird flu, aids and Ebola is not "colonizing"

If it is so benign, then let the sunshine in and let ordinary citizens see what is happening.

If it is such a cornerstone of American national security, roll its functions up under DoD or State.

But the handwringing over a purported benign, cornerstone of our diplomacy, national security, and health also being treated as some kind of double secret probation top level of information security gives the APPEARANCE that perhaps something more nefarious is going on here.

These agencies ALL have public reports and their budgets are open for public scruitiny. The sunshine is there, or it was until the websites were taken offline at the end of last week. Maybe check the internet wayback machine, but the information you seek is/was readily available.

USAID IS (or was) under the State Department.

There was ZERO sunshine on how much USAID gave to WUHAN lab.

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Anonymous wrote:Can anybody confirm or deny that USAID is funding opposition journalism—particularly in developed western countries?

Anyone?

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Anonymous wrote:It is stuff like this that turns people off.

Facts matter.

Facts matter from sketchy sources, lmao! Provide a reputable one and I’ll listen.

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musky orange petty meet petty

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sigh

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Rubio? Who just threatened to go to war against Panama and who last week froze all foreign aid, basically starting the end of USAID himself?

SMH

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He's in deep shit. A bunch of Senators and Congressmen just finished a press conference outside of USAID and went inside a few minutes ago to hold them to task.

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He's in deep shit. A bunch of Senators and Congressmen just finished a press conference outside of USAID and went inside a few minutes ago to hold them to task.

Yeah, he is. Wow, Trump really hates poor little Marco to stick him like this. This mess isn't Rubio's fault (tbf freezing all foreign aid is his fault) but he's going to go down for it.

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Anonymous wrote:USAID helped end Aparteid in South Africa, so now it makes sense why Musk targeted this agency.

Stop being so racist.

It is a fact. How is it racist?

Because the poor white Africans who used to own all that land they stole!

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Anonymous wrote:How sick and amoral is it that the world’s richest man is cutting food and medicine for the world’s poorest children, so that America’s wealthy can pay less taxes.

That is 100% what we are witnessing.

I am fine with you paying for it.

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elections have consequences.

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With USAID as shrunken and folded into the Dept of State, I wonder if the GSA would lease out the Reagan Building and adjacent Federal Triangle buildings. It’s been noted in various newspapers that President Trump is eyeing the prestigious Pennsylvania Ave corridor for a new luxury hotel project

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Anonymous wrote:With USAID as shrunken and folded into the Dept of State, I wonder if the GSA would lease out the Reagan Building and adjacent Federal Triangle buildings. It’s been noted in various newspapers that President Trump is eyeing the prestigious Pennsylvania Ave corridor for a new luxury hotel project

It won't be. Congress has stepped up on this one.

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He's in deep shit. A bunch of Senators and Congressmen just finished a press conference outside of USAID and went inside a few minutes ago to hold them to task.

Yeah, he is. Wow, Trump really hates poor little Marco to stick him like this. This mess isn't Rubio's fault (tbf freezing all foreign aid is his fault) but he's going to go down for it.

And that's how he trbeows everyone out. musk too.