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re: USAID only makes up .7% of our budget. This is chess move…
Posted on 2/4/25 at 9:42 am to MrXYZ
Posted on 2/4/25 at 9:42 am to MrXYZ
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USAID only makes up .7% of our budget
Not even a dollar of our tax money should be wasted. Politicians should be more prudent with OUR money than anything else they deal with.
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Posted on 2/4/25 at 9:42 am to MrXYZ
1% of our budget is a huge investment in US infrastrure, with plenty left over to assist rebuilding after Hurricanes, wildfires, etc.
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Posted on 2/4/25 at 9:45 am to SmackoverHawg
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Just kidding, I'd be shitposting all over the internetz daily.
So you’d be Elon.
Posted on 2/4/25 at 9:47 am to MrXYZ
No need for recess appointments once Gabbard, Patel, and RFK get confirmed.
Posted on 2/4/25 at 9:48 am to MrXYZ
USAID has a budget almost double that of freaking NASA. Yes, its small as a percentage. But it's a huge honey pot for politicians, as evidenced by the gnashing of teeth yesterday from all the Dem Senators.
Posted on 2/4/25 at 9:51 am to MAROON
continuing resolution are dead with the govt reorganization. Zero based budgeting in March
Posted on 2/4/25 at 9:53 am to Deuces
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They have a particular attachment to USAID, though.
Stuck pig squeals.
Posted on 2/4/25 at 9:54 am to Evolved Simian
which $40B?
Posted on 2/4/25 at 9:56 am to Vacherie Saint
and if it's so small why the hysteria from the dems?
Posted on 2/4/25 at 10:02 am to MrXYZ
.7% of the budget that is used for political discretion and kickbacks. Rep Mast states that only 10% of the funds allocated through USAID makes it to the recipient of the grant. This means that 90% of .7% of the budget is going to those who "administer" the aid funds.
That is a clear line to corruption that may be an easy target to find more corruption from the political class.
That is a clear line to corruption that may be an easy target to find more corruption from the political class.
This post was edited on 2/4/25 at 10:03 am
Posted on 2/4/25 at 10:14 am to MrXYZ
quote:IMO you've misassessed.
USAID only makes up .7% of our budget. This is chess move…
This isn’t the head of the snake
E.g., Sans USAID, it's likely Crimea would still be Ukrainian, there would have been no 2022-25 Russo-Ukraine war, and the billions that episode channelled to the MIC, backdoor NGOs, and assuredly to campaign coffers, would still be in the US Treasury. A nefarious catalytic organization does not need that much money to lead us into spending a ton of money.
Posted on 2/4/25 at 10:15 am to MrXYZ
but it's 99% of the corruption
Posted on 2/4/25 at 10:16 am to lake chuck fan
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Obviously it's enough to corrupt the system and allow the scum in DC to create a dysfunctional government that seeks it's own direction and frick over the tax payers that fund the entire thing.
It's a huge deal. That's why the Marxist are screaming!!!!
We have discovered who the real lobbyists are........
the politicians.
Posted on 2/4/25 at 10:24 am to MrXYZ
What you wrote:
What I read:
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USAID only makes up .7% of our budget.
What I read:
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One wafer thin mint, sir,
This post was edited on 2/4/25 at 10:26 am
Posted on 2/4/25 at 10:27 am to SECSolomonGrundy
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Department of Energy?
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Dept of Education. DoEd, i gues
Gotcha.
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Too many govt agencies for me to know every acronym
Even if you knew them all, there would be new ones every day that you wouldn't be able to keep up with. That's how bureaucracy works, I guess.
Posted on 2/4/25 at 10:41 am to madmaxvol
Wait till DOGE gets to the Pentagon and SS/Medicare...
Posted on 2/4/25 at 10:50 am to Wally Sparks
USAID is where you find the worst of the NGOs. Then from those, you find what other parts of the government are proving those same NGOs. Then trace back and start cutting those programs.
USAID, while only a small % of funding, is the tell tale fingerprint of the rot of the system. By knowing where to trace back from, now you can go into departments and look at everything also funded from the same groups that also backed the USAID NGOs to identify even more graft...
You got to start somewhere and in essence the corruption tied to USAID is the Rosetta Stone to the rot in the rest of the system.
USAID, while only a small % of funding, is the tell tale fingerprint of the rot of the system. By knowing where to trace back from, now you can go into departments and look at everything also funded from the same groups that also backed the USAID NGOs to identify even more graft...
You got to start somewhere and in essence the corruption tied to USAID is the Rosetta Stone to the rot in the rest of the system.
Posted on 2/4/25 at 10:52 am to MrXYZ
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USAID only makes up .7% of our budget.
$40,000,000,000.00/yr is still a lot of money,,,,,,,,
Posted on 2/4/25 at 11:19 am to MrXYZ
It’s the access to the data that tells DOGE where to look.
USAID was only one area of focus. I guarantee they aren’t the only.
USAID was only one area of focus. I guarantee they aren’t the only.
Posted on 2/4/25 at 11:29 am to SECSolomonGrundy
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Hit FEMA and DoE next and the numbers get better.
FEMA’s issues lies in its reliance on conglomerates or groups that hire contractors. They get a master contractor to haul x amount of debris for 1,000 dollars, they then sub it out to a contractor for 500 dollars, and then they sub it out again for 250 dollars. By the time it is all said and done the government paid 3 times more for the work than hiring the subcontractors directly. Not to mention the DEI requirements to use certain contractors to meet DEI quotas.
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