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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Usaid should be aiding American first[/quote]

In what way should we be aiding America first? Republicans have no plan to do this. [/quote]

The entire rest of the government's job is to aid America first.  USAID is the one small part which is designed to aid foreign countries in ways that help with our own national security (often by diminishing refugee flows so that those refugees don't destabilize trading partners or create refugees that come to the US), support allies involved in conflict (we are about to pour a lot of humanitarian aid into Gaza in order to stabilize and protect Israel, which we view as a key ally in the Middle East & also to stop a broader mid-East conflict in order to decrease inflation, for example, the Houthis blowing up ships of their coast has shifted global sea routes in a way that is making goods more costly for Americans.  The Houthis will stop this when there is a Gaza cease-fire and humanitarian aid and reconstruction.  Plus, the price of oil shoots way up if there is a conflict in the middle east, which would also be inflationary).

So, USAID is helping Americans.  It's just not a first order effect.

If you think the USG should aid needy Americans, then the proper focus is why isn't the current USG domestic policy diminishing USG citizen needs -- why are Rs intent on taking away the child tax credit?  why are they intent on taking away healthcare subsidies for US citizens?   Rs aren't doing that because they gave too much money to USAID, they're doing that because they are philosophically opposed to helping US citizens in any way because they view the bottom 50% of the income strata as "takers not makers". To distract that 50% they are trying to make people believe that immigrants and foreign aid are the problem.  They are not.  Basic R philosophy is the problem. [/quote]

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