re: Has anyone on the left expressed outrage over what the USAID $$$ was earmarked for?

Bolsheviks goal is to destabilize the host country. Target the family, Christian values, and traditional culture. Create a dysfunctional community.

that video is solid gold.. 10/10

that girl gets it..

Before the end of this they'll be complaining nobody read them their rights before looking into USAID.

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Paying off the media to be their mouthpiece should be the biggest scandal. Politico received over $8m for “Pro” subscriptions at $10k each? Are you kidding me.
We laughed at other countries for state run media.

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While having a govt wide block on just checking sites like Glen Becks The Blaze, on govt computers.

Leftists have to be told what to think and they have not been told what to think about the spending.

I have a connection on FB that is a far-left prof at a university...

Let's just say that he is going nuts posting the past few days about USAID and how the $$$ is all for just causes, etc.

It is laughable at this to point to watch these freaks defend any of this, but then again, no one should be shocked.

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I’m not quite as emotional and dramatic as y’all so I don’t express outrage over politics, but I’m glad Trump is getting rid of a lot of wasteful spending.

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So since the MSM is going apoplectic about it and spreading purely one sided innuendo and attempting to generate outrage on command… we can rest assured you will never believe any of their garbage from here forward, correct? Considering also their lack of reporting on the competence of the last president?

I know I'm not special. Just an average guy from South Louisiana going about his life. Going to work, paying my bills. Enjoying time with family and friends.

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there has to be logical explanations as to why Iraq needs Sesame Street, Guatemalans need sexual reassignment funding, and Vietnam needs EVs. How is any of this in the best interest of the US?

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The way federal government agency budgeting works is there are a number of different budget categories. Every budget year some funding is devoted to specific Budget Object Codes (BOCs) and cannot be reprogrammed, while other funds in different BOCs can be reprogrammed.

Agency heads have a role in approving every single expenditure, though many delegate it to subordinates. But the agency heads still has pecuniary liability for that expense paid.

Some of these BOCs have very broad definitions of what the funds can be used for. Most of these can have additional agency funds reprogrammed into it, but often not out of it. These funds with broad definitions are likely where a great deal of waste and abuse comes from. I would wager that is where the Sesame Street and sexual reassignment funding is being used - under a broad category called something like foreign aid cultural development.

Congressional aides simply look at historical spending, make inflationary adjustments and will respond to efforts to increase funding or possibly even reduce it if a pet project in a different agency means they have to take it from somewhere.