Closing USAID

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Anonymous wrote:I'm just a regular person and the amount of dumb stuff this dept spends money on is pretty infuriating. Why is there also over 10k employees for a dept most Americans have never heard of. Good riddance and I hope they go back to the core mission under the state dept.

Again, WHY are there over TEN THOUSAND employees for a dept most Americans have NEVER heard of?

Because most of them are out doing the work in the field - different countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America, mostly along with the support staff that goes with it.

This is not going to build support - especially when people learn of the ridiculous compensation and entitlements these employees get. Did you know we rent houses and apartments for these employees that happen to come with full time cleaners and personal chefs? The State Department only approves local landlords with robust personal service riders. So these “aid” workers are living in penthouse apartments in Bogota or gated mansions in Abuja with full household staffs - all at taxpayer expense. In Bogota that comes with a fleet of chauffeured SUVs that personally drive their kids to the $61,000 per year British International School that - again - US taxpayers pay for.

Do you have any idea what it is like to work in the conditions these government employees work in? Yes, having a place to rotate back to while in country is critically important. Having a safe place for your family is critically important. You are way overblowing how these people and their families are living.

I am not - I have first hand knowledge. If these places are so unsafe - they should be unaccompanied assignments. If they are so unsafe, maybe we should not have a US citizen (accompanied by their children) overseeing US taxpayer funded projects to put on drag shows in these countries.

If you believe the bolded then you brainwashed and a lost cause.

It is true. Also, it is absolutely true these people are living in luxury housing with full time staff sending their kids to elite private schools - all taxpayer funded.

https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/press-release/icymi-u-s-taxpayer-funded-drag-show-exposed/

DRAG SHOWS funded with OUR tax dollars!!!!!

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Anonymous wrote:I find it very odd and suspicious that USAID is suddenly in Elon’s crosshairs like this. Did Trump or GOP ever mention this agency during the last campaign or in recent Congressional hearings, budget negotiations?

It seems there must be some other underlying reason (for corrupt purposes and financial gain) that Elon is going after it so aggressively. I hope the media will start digging!

It is a slush fund for Democrats. Give money to NGOs who give to other funds, who can use the money to promote leftist causes.
Their big mistake was not giving enough money to Republicans so now no one is supporting them.

When the International Space Station was nearly defunded under Clinton, NASA went out and distributed the jobs around the country.

Yes,
USAID has been a SLUSH FUND for DEMOCRATS.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Hey, farmers who voted for and support convicted felon Donald Trump. On Monday, the guy you wanted as president and his “special government employee,” Elon Musk, illegally shuttered the United Stated Agency for International Development (USAID) and ordered the immediate firing or furlough of everyone of its employees working here and anywhere else in the world. They also completely halted all programs the agency operates, from providing HIV treatment to stopping the spread of Ebola to stemming famine to promoting democracy and American economic interests in 120 countries.
You probably like that, right? Take care of America and forget those foreigners, am I right?
Well, guess what also stopped abruptly when Trump and Musk gutted USAID? More than two billion dollars per year in USAID purchases of rice, wheat, lentils, and peas for foreign aid stopped. Right now. Immediately.
And from whom do you suppose USAID buys the commodities it uses for humanitarian aid distribution? It’s from you, bub. It’s from American farmers. And your Dear Leader just snatched that two billion dollar market out from under you.
What else do you suppose is going to happen now that all of USAID’s missions have suddenly ended without notice, leaving millions of desperate people who depend on American aid searching for help? Guess who’s going to step into that sudden void because of the new opening handed to them on a silver platter by Trump and Musk? Oops and surprise, it’s going to be our economic and philosophical adversaries like China and Russia. They are now much freer to insert their own footprint into those countries and to greatly increase their own influence. That also means making it easier for China to take over the foreign markets which, until now, used to be yours, thanks in large part to soft power overseas work of USAID. Yeah, China and Russia absolutely love it, baby.
Now, the question is, what are you going to do about it? Keep your mouths shut and your eyes down? Keep voting for leaders who engage in such colossally stupid, poorly executed and illegal acts which cause real actual harm to you and your livelihoods? Are you going to cheer them on despite what they’re doing to you? Are you going to just shrug your shoulders as their actions literally kill people, including the most vulnerable children of the world because, y’know, MAGA?
Did you vote for that? Are you going to bend over and take it? I mean, seriously. In spite of warning bells going off so loudly that you could’ve even heard them over the chugging of the giant tractors for which you’re probably deeply in debt, you went ahead and invited these guys to f**k you over anyway. So, will you come to your senses and fight back or roll over and say, Thank you, sir,” and ask for more of it?

And don’t forget: since we no longer want to help improve living conditions in these countries, guess how much more they’ll want to leave? To go where, I wonder. The greatest country in the world!

Well, now that the US is going to be a sh^thole country, I guess they will go to Canada.

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Anonymous wrote:I find it very odd and suspicious that USAID is suddenly in Elon’s crosshairs like this. Did Trump or GOP ever mention this agency during the last campaign or in recent Congressional hearings, budget negotiations?

It seems there must be some other underlying reason (for corrupt purposes and financial gain) that Elon is going after it so aggressively. I hope the media will start digging!

It is a slush fund for Democrats. Give money to NGOs who give to other funds, who can use the money to promote leftist causes.
Their big mistake was not giving enough money to Republicans so now no one is supporting them.

When the International Space Station was nearly defunded under Clinton, NASA went out and distributed the jobs around the country.

What about Elon’s $1 million USAID contracts with Starlink?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2025/02/03/usaid-and-musk-were-partners-via-spacex-starlink/

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Hey, farmers who voted for and support convicted felon Donald Trump. On Monday, the guy you wanted as president and his “special government employee,” Elon Musk, illegally shuttered the United Stated Agency for International Development (USAID) and ordered the immediate firing or furlough of everyone of its employees working here and anywhere else in the world. They also completely halted all programs the agency operates, from providing HIV treatment to stopping the spread of Ebola to stemming famine to promoting democracy and American economic interests in 120 countries.
You probably like that, right? Take care of America and forget those foreigners, am I right?
Well, guess what also stopped abruptly when Trump and Musk gutted USAID? More than two billion dollars per year in USAID purchases of rice, wheat, lentils, and peas for foreign aid stopped. Right now. Immediately.
And from whom do you suppose USAID buys the commodities it uses for humanitarian aid distribution? It’s from you, bub. It’s from American farmers. And your Dear Leader just snatched that two billion dollar market out from under you.
What else do you suppose is going to happen now that all of USAID’s missions have suddenly ended without notice, leaving millions of desperate people who depend on American aid searching for help? Guess who’s going to step into that sudden void because of the new opening handed to them on a silver platter by Trump and Musk? Oops and surprise, it’s going to be our economic and philosophical adversaries like China and Russia. They are now much freer to insert their own footprint into those countries and to greatly increase their own influence. That also means making it easier for China to take over the foreign markets which, until now, used to be yours, thanks in large part to soft power overseas work of USAID. Yeah, China and Russia absolutely love it, baby.
Now, the question is, what are you going to do about it? Keep your mouths shut and your eyes down? Keep voting for leaders who engage in such colossally stupid, poorly executed and illegal acts which cause real actual harm to you and your livelihoods? Are you going to cheer them on despite what they’re doing to you? Are you going to just shrug your shoulders as their actions literally kill people, including the most vulnerable children of the world because, y’know, MAGA?
Did you vote for that? Are you going to bend over and take it? I mean, seriously. In spite of warning bells going off so loudly that you could’ve even heard them over the chugging of the giant tractors for which you’re probably deeply in debt, you went ahead and invited these guys to f**k you over anyway. So, will you come to your senses and fight back or roll over and say, Thank you, sir,” and ask for more of it?

And don’t forget: since we no longer want to help improve living conditions in these countries, guess how much more they’ll want to leave? To go where, I wonder. The greatest country in the world!

I find your long mansplain pretty condescending and the fact that you direct it " joe farmer" as if there are any small time family farms owned by individuals left in America. You should have written: dear Monsanto, do you not realize when you voted for Trump he was gonna can your subsidies ? Hmmmm maybe Monsanto doesn't vote....and farmers as a constituency were told to F off by Reagan in the 80's.

Lastly, since you seem to think the world can't survive without 50 Billion a year in welfare in form of USAID, how did " the world" manage for thousands of years before USAID was created in 1961 ? One wonders....

Maybe they weren't dependent on US aid, maybe their birth rates/ survival rates were lower and their countries less crowded and more sustainable .

Maybe the invention of artificial Nitrogen fertilizer wasn't such a good thing for the Earth or world stability ??? But you preach to us some more since, at age 28-35 ( my guess) you seem to know so much

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hey, farmers who voted for and support convicted felon Donald Trump. On Monday, the guy you wanted as president and his “special government employee,” Elon Musk, illegally shuttered the United Stated Agency for International Development (USAID) and ordered the immediate firing or furlough of everyone of its employees working here and anywhere else in the world. They also completely halted all programs the agency operates, from providing HIV treatment to stopping the spread of Ebola to stemming famine to promoting democracy and American economic interests in 120 countries.
You probably like that, right? Take care of America and forget those foreigners, am I right?
Well, guess what also stopped abruptly when Trump and Musk gutted USAID? More than two billion dollars per year in USAID purchases of rice, wheat, lentils, and peas for foreign aid stopped. Right now. Immediately.
And from whom do you suppose USAID buys the commodities it uses for humanitarian aid distribution? It’s from you, bub. It’s from American farmers. And your Dear Leader just snatched that two billion dollar market out from under you.
What else do you suppose is going to happen now that all of USAID’s missions have suddenly ended without notice, leaving millions of desperate people who depend on American aid searching for help? Guess who’s going to step into that sudden void because of the new opening handed to them on a silver platter by Trump and Musk? Oops and surprise, it’s going to be our economic and philosophical adversaries like China and Russia. They are now much freer to insert their own footprint into those countries and to greatly increase their own influence. That also means making it easier for China to take over the foreign markets which, until now, used to be yours, thanks in large part to soft power overseas work of USAID. Yeah, China and Russia absolutely love it, baby.
Now, the question is, what are you going to do about it? Keep your mouths shut and your eyes down? Keep voting for leaders who engage in such colossally stupid, poorly executed and illegal acts which cause real actual harm to you and your livelihoods? Are you going to cheer them on despite what they’re doing to you? Are you going to just shrug your shoulders as their actions literally kill people, including the most vulnerable children of the world because, y’know, MAGA?
Did you vote for that? Are you going to bend over and take it? I mean, seriously. In spite of warning bells going off so loudly that you could’ve even heard them over the chugging of the giant tractors for which you’re probably deeply in debt, you went ahead and invited these guys to f**k you over anyway. So, will you come to your senses and fight back or roll over and say, Thank you, sir,” and ask for more of it?

And don’t forget: since we no longer want to help improve living conditions in these countries, guess how much more they’ll want to leave? To go where, I wonder. The greatest country in the world!

I find your long mansplain pretty condescending and the fact that you direct it " joe farmer" as if there are any small time family farms owned by individuals left in America. You should have written: dear Monsanto, do you not realize when you voted for Trump he was gonna can your subsidies ? Hmmmm maybe Monsanto doesn't vote....and farmers as a constituency were told to F off by Reagan in the 80's.

Lastly, since you seem to think the world can't survive without 50 Billion a year in welfare in form of USAID, how did " the world" manage for thousands of years before USAID was created in 1961 ? One wonders....

Maybe they weren't dependent on US aid, maybe their birth rates/ survival rates were lower and their countries less crowded and more sustainable .

Maybe the invention of artificial Nitrogen fertilizer wasn't such a good thing for the Earth or world stability ??? But you preach to us some more since, at age 28-35 ( my guess) you seem to know so much

I don’t think arguing with people is your forte. Is there anyone else in the house? A child or something?

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Your glee at the unemployment of 13,706 people is nauseating. I am laying off all my staff because of the USAID shutdowns. The single moms, the dads with kids with cancer, the fresh-faced kids with their first apartment leases. And since my programs are shut down we aren’t stopping that Ebola outbreak in Uganda or preventing babies from getting Malaria in Nigeria. That’s what we all did all day. And we got paid the kind of salaries that people on this board scoff at, and we live in neighborhoods most of you won’t enter. Because we aren’t rolling in dough based on some big USAID fraud, right? We are nurses and social workers who use our skills in other countries.

What the F is WRONG with you?

Why was USAID operating in Hungary?

https://rumble.com/v29a3te-usaid-in-hungary.html

Samantha Power didn't seem to think her mission was helping starving people in Africa, but rather building media operations to take out political opponents.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, so much waste in USAID.


Hundreds of millions on lbtgq, drag shows…….

Horrible.

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Your glee at the unemployment of 13,706 people is nauseating. I am laying off all my staff because of the USAID shutdowns. The single moms, the dads with kids with cancer, the fresh-faced kids with their first apartment leases. And since my programs are shut down we aren’t stopping that Ebola outbreak in Uganda or preventing babies from getting Malaria in Nigeria. That’s what we all did all day. And we got paid the kind of salaries that people on this board scoff at, and we live in neighborhoods most of you won’t enter. Because we aren’t rolling in dough based on some big USAID fraud, right? We are nurses and social workers who use our skills in other countries.

What the F is WRONG with you?

Why was USAID operating in Hungary?

https://rumble.com/v29a3te-usaid-in-hungary.html

Samantha Power didn't seem to think her mission was helping starving people in Africa, but rather building media operations to take out political opponents.

What does Samantha Power have to do with USAID’s current operations?

[Anonymous]

How many people has DOGE/OPM actually fired, i.e., not just put on paid leave?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Your glee at the unemployment of 13,706 people is nauseating. I am laying off all my staff because of the USAID shutdowns. The single moms, the dads with kids with cancer, the fresh-faced kids with their first apartment leases. And since my programs are shut down we aren’t stopping that Ebola outbreak in Uganda or preventing babies from getting Malaria in Nigeria. That’s what we all did all day. And we got paid the kind of salaries that people on this board scoff at, and we live in neighborhoods most of you won’t enter. Because we aren’t rolling in dough based on some big USAID fraud, right? We are nurses and social workers who use our skills in other countries.

What the F is WRONG with you?

Why was USAID operating in Hungary?

https://rumble.com/v29a3te-usaid-in-hungary.html

Samantha Power didn't seem to think her mission was helping starving people in Africa, but rather building media operations to take out political opponents.

Fascism has taken hold in Hungary. USAID projects provide soft diplomacy to promote democracy (in this case through a free press) as part of overall global stability efforts. There a reason authoritarian leaders or cheering on this effort to dismantle USAID.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/06/authoritarian-usaid-elon-musk

Please think through who is supporting the destruction if USAID and what they have to gain from it.

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Anonymous wrote:How many people has DOGE/OPM actually fired, i.e., not just put on paid leave?

This is my question too.
The media has not been clear. But this is not an episode of the apprentice. There’s a whole process. So the only people that can actually be dismissed are politicals, which happens (albeit less dramatically) in every new administration.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Complaint just filed.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25515230-afsavtrumpcomp020625/

I like that they quote Elon's tweets.

Don't think I've ever seen a cause of action for "Violation of Separation Powers"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How many people has DOGE/OPM actually fired, i.e., not just put on paid leave?

I would also like to know this.

We do not know of a single Federal employee in our entire social circle who has been fired. DW is a Fed.

We do know of one employee who was out on paid leave.

Are there stats on how many people Musk has fired?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I find it very odd and suspicious that USAID is suddenly in Elon’s crosshairs like this. Did Trump or GOP ever mention this agency during the last campaign or in recent Congressional hearings, budget negotiations?

It seems there must be some other underlying reason (for corrupt purposes and financial gain) that Elon is going after it so aggressively. I hope the media will start digging!

It's not secret. USAID caught Elon illegally doing something. It was discussed earlier in the thread. I don't know why but possibly because one of his businesses was contracting for them and there was some malfeasance.