Hope everyone is looking forward to doing this all over again in 30 days.
Current Affairs The Would Be Emperor Has No Clothes (aka POTUS 47)
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It'll be something else inside 48 hours.
Ever seen Fantazia? he's mickey mouse, orchestrating the chaos, the chaos doesn't matter, it's the power of the orchestration that keeps him breathing.
Dance to my tune underlings!!!
Exactly - there is a whole host of reasons to support the concept of foreign aid that can be directly tied to the security of the United States and its health and prosperity.
Understanding and appreciating the need for these programs does require knowledge and being open to seeing multiple levels of connection. Developing economies, health systems, education systems - all of these help build functioning societies and governments - and these are factors that make the US safer.
carolinablue232
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Totally fair. I never researched it independently. That said, think the other questions still stand re: getting our own house in order.
There is no clear indication that the administration plans to redirect the funds previously allocated to USAID into domestic programs that help support the issues you stated.
The administration's primary focus appears to be on reducing federal spending and limiting international commitments. If the administration’s priority was genuinely addressing issues like homelessness, disaster relief, and child hunger, then dismantling critical federal agencies like FEMA (which provides disaster response and emergency aid) and the Department of Education (which funds school meal programs and supports low-income students) would be counterproductive.
Yes. You'd think they could draw some parallels after COVID, but expecting this admin to reflect and learn is asking too much.
We don't have Ebola (or insert other horrible infectious diseases) in the US because we provide funds to manage outbreaks in Africa.
Along those same lines, helping improve opportunity and QOL in other countries can limit immigration to the US if that is your goal.
If they start looking into defense spending that could get very interesting…unlike Aid which iirc is something like 0.7% of the budget the military budget is massive.
I think you are being charitable, if not naive, about the intent here. It's not to just get.our house in order, looking at spending and making sure it's effective - it's to fundamentally change the role of America in the world and the role of our government in fairly and equitably serving our society and citizenry - to instead set a norm in our.society where you do better if you have the connections, the pull, the influence, to help yourself - if you do, you are."more worthy and deserving" - if you don't, well then it must be your own fault.
Called it about a week back, pure trussonomics.
Fwiw I think this is all small potatoes compared to fight that will likely take place with DoD. That will be the big one- you’ll start to hear rumblings (which are true) that DoD has failed its audits the past seven years. Plenty of allusions to that in Project 2025 and Musk’s posts
The DOD failing it's audits is a disgrace
I don't think there will really be a fight with DoD - there are too many supporters in both houses of Congress, too many connected lobbyists, too many communities dependent on that spending, to really make significant spending changes there.
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Senator Collins is a yes on Tulsi. Now onto that corrupt POS Murkowski.
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