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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]USAID is targeted for very different reasons than just cost cutting.  Can anyone verify if tax spend on USAID funding so vastly exceeds all the other agencies?  I thought HHS was the one most heavily funded..[/quote]

This is OT, but since you asked - USAID IG was investigating Starlink in Ukraine

https://gizmodo.com/elon-musks-enemy-usaid-was-investigating-starlink-over-its-contracts-in-ukraine-2000559365[/quote]

Fake News.

See what I SAID itself says:
https://docs.house.gov/meetings/FA/FA17/20240926/117696/HHRG-118-FA17-Wstate-MartinP-20240926.pdf

USAID OIG was inspecting's USAID  itself (just like Musk is doing!), regarding contracts in Ukraine  and potental for waste, fraud, and abuse. They were not 'investigating Starlink".

Think about it, if you can. USAID's or Mar function is to give money away. 
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Why would Musk close an agency that was giving him money, instead of letting it give him more money?

I hate everything unelected President Musk is doing, but this particular accusation is bullsht.

[/quote]. Wrong.  Usaid was investigating Starlink’s and its actions with Russia.  Usaid was also supporting democratization efforts around the world which angered many oligarchs (friends of Trump.) 
https://www.newsweek.com/usaid-elon-musk-starlink-probe-ukraine-2027054
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+1.  Basically, after the collapse of communism, USAID has spent a lot of money in all former Warsaw Pact nations to help them transition to democratic governance structures. These countries *wanted* to become independent, democratic, integrated with the rest of Europe economically and socially and part of NATO. USAID helped with teaching how to hold elections, run for office, screen judges for corruption, build a human rights respecting police force, create a transparent budget and contract letting process, etc.

It's Putin who benefits from the collapse of USAID and not just in C&EE but also in Africa where he is using the former Wagner crews to topple African governments and create chaos.  Getting rid of USAID in CEE softens it up so that he can invade the Baltics after he's made a favorable deal on Ukraine. [/quote]

Yes, it’s basically like we are letting Putin draft our foreign and domestic policy in many ways.  It’s awful. [/quote]

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