It was only $38 billion guys. Less than 1% of the budget. Why do you even care?

Because the government tries to squeeze every penny out of my poor arse.

Nancy New should point out that she stole only a tiny fraction of the state budget.

If you need any more proof that slowflopro is full of it, this was his defense of USAID last week.

The 2023 state of louisiana budget was $43b. THis just goes to show that if we are talking like "no big deal, its a small %" of mostly wasted money then we need to look at the overall budget and slash it down,way down

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Why do you guys even acknowledge that clown. He just makes all those irrational comments.Just to keep post counts up on this board. I wouldn't doubt if he's paid by someone who has interest in the post count...

Turn it around on them. If it’s less than 1% and that amount is so small that no one should care about it being spent, then it is equally that no one should care if it’s not spent.

Muh rounding error bullshite is bullshite.

It’s still our fricking money.

How many expenditures are greater than 1% of the budget. The way politicians run the country, it's like death by a thousand cuts. You gotta start somewhere. And USAID isn't the only budget cut DOGE is exploring, but the amount of backlash is telling that it's a large abuse of taxpayer money.

USAID wasn’t about the money savings. It’s about control of unchecked spending and unchecked power. The money was an excuse to take control

simplest answer

you break bad habits with the first step, the most obvious and easiest first step

we have wasted taxpayers' money and grown our debt for far too long.
For our future and National security, we must change our bad habits.

And for our allies overseas it's best to let them know emphatically and early that changes are about to be made