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And identical to that, the world is a significantly better place now that the Trump administration and America’s “first good friend” Elon Musk have gutted USAid, the evil company seeking to assist underprivileged nations get better from catastrophe and poverty.
As a result of the brand new America hates poverty and catastrophe and serving to and hope.
The usually silent Secretary of State Marco “Little Marco” Rubio (the president’s nickname for him, not mine), posted to Elon Musk’s about me web page (also called X) that the Trump hatchet squad was carried out eviscerating the U.S. Company for Worldwide Growth down to simply 18%, and whereas he didn’t point out which applications have been spared, Little Marco did word that the remaining growth applications would now fall beneath the State Division’s purview.
“After a 6 week overview we’re formally cancelling 83% of the applications at USAID,” Rubio tweeted. The 5200 contracts that at the moment are cancelled spent tens of billions of {dollars} in ways in which didn’t serve, (and in some instances even harmed), the core nationwide pursuits of america. In session with Congress, we intend for the remaining 18% of applications we’re protecting (roughly 1000) to now be administered extra successfully beneath the State Division.”
There was no phrase on how lengthy it will take for these “saved” billions to make their approach again into the 1%’s pockets…I child, however severely, nothing was talked about about the place the monies would now be spent.
In keeping with AP Information, all of this started shortly after President Trump took workplace and instantly issued an govt order stopping overseas help as a result of he needed to overview the cash despatched overseas. Trump claimed the “overseas help was wasteful and superior a liberal agenda.”
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It’s all part of Mission 2025, which was a MAGA file on the right way to finish America as we all know it. That is America’s third villain story. The primary was stealing the land from Native Individuals, the second was the inhumane therapy of African Individuals, and the third and closing act would be the destruction of america. And America couldn’t have chosen a greater chief to destroy itself contemplating all the pieces Trump touches fails flamboyantly or goes bankrupt. The destruction of USAid was so haphazard that Rubio and Musk needed to try to woo again of us who’d acquired termination notices after studying that these folks have been important to applications like “emergency dietary help for ravenous kids and ingesting water serving sprawling camps for households uprooted by struggle in Sudan,” AP notes.
As a result of this administration doesn’t learn previous the desk of contents, they’ve not listened to those that’ve argued that ending assist in unsettled nations might trigger a risk to nationwide safety as a result of serving to nations creates goodwill and bonds for America.
However why would they care about that when there are folks to fireplace?!
“Within the weeks after Trump’s order, one in all his appointees and transition workforce members, Pete Marocco, and Musk pulled USAID employees around the globe off the job by means of pressured leaves and firings, shut down USAID funds in a single day and terminated assist and growth contracts by the 1000’s,” AP experiences.
AP notes that the sudden shutdown of USAid has left many staffers and contractors stranded abroad, ready on again pay in order that they’ll return house. However why would the Trump administration care about these folks after they clearly are the administration for the 1%?
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