LOOKS LIKE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS HAVE BEEN STOLLEN AT USAID, AND OTHER AGENCIES, MUCH OF IT GOING TO THE FAKE NEWS MEDIA AS A “PAYOFF” FOR CREATING GOOD STORIES ABOUT THE DEMOCRATS. THE LEFT WING “RAG,” KNOWN AS “POLITICO,” SEEMS TO HAVE RECEIVED $8,000,000. Did the New York Times…

— Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) February 6, 2025

LOL, tweeted as only DJT can put it.

I don't think they are specified in any budget bill passed by Congress…

From what I can tell, USAID decides where the $ goes…

It's another disaster created by baseline budgeting. USAID gets appropriated X amount of dollars for a hurricane or earthquake or some such in a year that is easily justified to congress. Next year, baseline budgeting kicks in and the disaster respoonse dollars are built in without needing justification - then you just ask for a 3 - 10% increase on top of what were, at the time, extraordinary measures.

Several years later, layer upon layer upon layer is a slush fund built out of old disaster response budgets carried out perpetually.

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It's another disaster created by baseline budgeting. USAID gets appropriated X amount of dollars for a hurricane or earthquake or some such in a year that is easily justified to congress. Next year, baseline budgeting kicks in and the disaster respoonse dollars are built in without needing justification - then you just ask for a 3 - 10% increase on top of what were, at the time, extraordinary measures.

Several years later, layer upon layer upon layer is a slush fund built out of old disaster response budgets carried out perpetually.

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Spot on…that's my understanding of this as well…thus a loophole was created that bypasses Congress's budget oversight powers…

Congress has oversight over the total amount of money given to USAID every year, but no oversight on how the $'s are actually doled out…

So the Trump team is saying that since Congress won't take ownership of how each dollar is spent annually, then the Executive Branch will do so…

And by my reading of how laws work on congressional oversight of spending, there's nothing to stop Trump et al from doing exactly what they are doing…

By putting USAID under the State Department now, State can now decide how each dollar is spent from their annual budget, so State can now shut down whatever they want…

He’s mad that @DOGE is dismantling the radical-left shadow government in full view of the public.

This is our ONE CHANCE to return POWER to the PEOPLE from an unelected BUREAUcracy back to DEMOcracy!!

Only with the support of YOU can this succeed. Thank you, unknown soldiers. https://t.co/G8ZCOUSHN6

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 4, 2025

Lol at Schumer... just like the "unelected secret group" that were the puppeteers of brain dead Biden for last 4 years.

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Sims said:

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It's another disaster created by baseline budgeting. USAID gets appropriated X amount of dollars for a hurricane or earthquake or some such in a year that is easily justified to congress. Next year, baseline budgeting kicks in and the disaster respoonse dollars are built in without needing justification - then you just ask for a 3 - 10% increase on top of what were, at the time, extraordinary measures.

Several years later, layer upon layer upon layer is a slush fund built out of old disaster response budgets carried out perpetually.

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Spot on…that's my understanding of this as well…thus a loophole was created that bypasses Congress's budget oversight powers…

Congress has oversight over the total amount of money given to USAID every year, but no oversight on how the $'s are actually doled out…

So the Trump team is saying that since Congress won't take ownership of how each dollar is spent annually, then the Executive Branch will do so…

And by my reading of how laws work on congressional oversight of spending, there's nothing to stop Trump et al from doing exactly what they are doing…

By putting USAID under the State Department now, State can now decide how each dollar is spent from their annual budget, so State can now shut down whatever they want…

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It's not a bug, it's a feature.

Congress wants baseline budgeting because it automatically increases their power by increasing the size and scope of the federal government without having to actually vote for the increase. They even have the audacity to call reducing the amount of automatic increase a "cut".

Fundamentally what you are seeing is the exact reason the founders set up a republic with strictly enumerated federal powers that limit what the federal government can do (at least theoretically). The point was to keep governing power as close to the individual as possible. Can you get corruption at the state and local level? Absolutely. But when power is local it gives the individual citizen much greater ability to identify and prevent or eliminate it. I am a much greater concern to my state representative than I am to my federal senator.

If, as the saying goes, sunlight is the best disinfectant, all an enormous, bloated federal government does is ensure the lights are almost always off.

Over $4 billion to Haiti but Haiti only got 2% of it. The rest went to firms in DC and "other" pic.twitter.com/5CzzZT0i2H

— Peachy Keenan (@KeenanPeachy) February 5, 2025

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This probably needs it own topic, but I often wonder "Who sponsored these wasteful items in the budget?" I may be mistaken, but aren't these individual project appropriations to USAID specified in the budget? Why can't we get names as to who added them?

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What is this "budget" you keep referring to? We have been governing by continuing resolution for a couple of decades now. Budgets are apparently for the little people.

I have news for Schumer and the rest of those brain dead "Musk not elected" idiots; not a single department head, or even cabinet member, was elected. The were hired.

taxpreparer said:

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I have news for Schumer and the rest of those brain dead "Musk not elected" idiots; not a single department head, or even cabinet member, was elected. The were hired.

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Schumer knows that. He's throwing out lies so his base can eat it up and riot .

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LOOKS LIKE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS HAVE BEEN STOLLEN AT USAID, AND OTHER AGENCIES, MUCH OF IT GOING TO THE FAKE NEWS MEDIA AS A “PAYOFF” FOR CREATING GOOD STORIES ABOUT THE DEMOCRATS. THE LEFT WING “RAG,” KNOWN AS “POLITICO,” SEEMS TO HAVE RECEIVED $8,000,000. Did the New York Times…

— Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) February 6, 2025

LOL, tweeted as only DJT can put it.

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Forgot to all cap a whole sentence in there. Are we sure DJT is still mentally fit for office?

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I'm more convinced of it today than I was on November 5th or Jan 20th. I'm becoming more convinced by the day. It's a marvel to behold.

Right man, right place, right time.

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It's another disaster created by baseline budgeting. USAID gets appropriated X amount of dollars for a hurricane or earthquake or some such in a year that is easily justified to congress. Next year, baseline budgeting kicks in and the disaster respoonse dollars are built in without needing justification - then you just ask for a 3 - 10% increase on top of what were, at the time, extraordinary measures.

Several years later, layer upon layer upon layer is a slush fund built out of old disaster response budgets carried out perpetually.

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Yep. And government always spends every dollar they receive. So they have 8100 people basically trying to figure out how to spend all the money which leads to all these ridiculous projects

U.S. government spending records show Soros-backed institute received more than $260 million in grants from USAID https://t.co/UPg5AB5jCj

— John Solomon (@jsolomonReports) February 6, 2025

Now THIS is draining the swamp

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Now THIS is draining the swamp

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They came at the king, and missed. Elections have consequences.

I need some indictments and televised perp walks in the worst of ways.

I wonder how many of the dems are sitting back and thinking how simple life could have been if they had just let Trump win legitimately in 2020 instead of stealing the election. He would have spent 4 more years marginalized and surrounded by uniparty squishes like Pence and Barr and then the democrats could have run Gavin against Pence and run away with turning the US into California.

Instead, we got 4 years of leftists running amok under a puppet government. We now have an energized Trump backed by the smartest and richest guy in the world appointing people to key positions that will take no **** from anybody and a populace that is sick and tired of all the goofy crap the dems have been spending our money on for 4 years. These people are systematically dismantling the deep state tools used to control the narrative and disrupt free elections here and elsewhere, and they are barely 2 weeks into his term.

They have to look forward to nearly 4 more years of this, and who is their bench? Newsome has been destroyed as a viable candidate and there is nobody behind him on the dem side. The Rs have Vance, DeSantis, and a half dozen other viable and energetic candidates to run in 2028.

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Where is the constitutional mandate for organizations like USAID, NOAA, etc.? Where is the constitutional mandate for the fed gov to give grants to any non-profit or give any block grants to ngo's, states, or cities?

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There isn't one…nothing was ever defined when the Foreign Assistance Act was signed in 1961…

We have a lawfully-formed organization with literally no congressionally approved rules as to how it will appropriate its funds…

Quite literally, it is a slush fund that has clearly been used to launder money and pay off certain folks to help drive certain agendas and ideologies…with literally zero oversight…

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I just checked Linkedin.

34 Aggies work for USAID.

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**** 'em

🤣🤣 https://t.co/crsv4hCpuO

— Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) February 6, 2025

The pigs are a squealin' boy!

Only way you'd hear a bunch rage harder is if you put 1000 single moms in a room and gave them all an order reducing their ex's child support.

Word is trickling out.

This is only the beginning of the Uniparty rabbithole. The NDI is the Democratic wing of the Uniparty. Wait until you dig into the Republican version - International Republican Institute - and find out that the Republican party itself has been financing the refugee influx.…

— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) February 6, 2025

Call out the uniparty at every opportunity.