Trump Shutting Down USAID

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In reply to Fenrir • 9:56a, 2/7/25
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Fenrir said:
So between those last 2 tweets the US government has literally just handed out almost $5 billion to undisclosed entities.

Makes you wonder how sinister the recipients must be that they were made anonymous when others were not.
where do you think the pallets of cash to Iran under Obama came from?
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In reply to samurai_science • 9:57a, 2/7/25
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Technically it would be Rubio sending the RIF notices as USAID was moved under DoS.
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9:59a, 2/7/25
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The one time Joe knew what he was talking about and told the truth. Coming out now, huh.




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In reply to samurai_science • 10:10a, 2/7/25
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samurai_science said:
Is this confirmed?


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14372711/DOGE-trump-musk-usaid-fired-workers.html

DOGE sends firing notice to 9,0000 USAID employees as Trump pledges to 'CLOSE DOWN' entire agency
https://www.usaid.gov/

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On Friday, February 7, 2025, at 11:59 pm (EST) all USAID direct hire personnel will be placed on administrative leave globally, with the exception of designated personnel responsible for mission-critical functions, core leadership and specially designated programs. Essential personnel expected to continue working will be informed by Agency leadership by Thursday, February 6, at 3:00pm (EST).

For USAID personnel currently posted outside the United States, the Agency, in coordination with missions and the Department of State, is currently preparing a plan, in accordance with all applicable requirements and laws, under which the Agency would arrange and pay for return travel to the United States within 30 days and provide for the termination of PSC and ISC contracts that are not determined to be essential. The Agency will consider case-by-case exceptions and return travel extensions based on personal or family hardship, mobility or safety concerns, or other reasons. For example, the Agency will consider exceptions based on the timing of dependents' school term, personal or familial medical needs, pregnancy, and other reasons. Further guidance on how to request an exception will be forthcoming.

Thank you for your service.
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In reply to nortex97 • 12:17p, 2/7/25
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Because as their editor-in-chief, Russell Moore, was taking money from Kristol's anti-Trump political organization to develop and promote a Christian political curriculum that teaches that white conservatives lack empathy and that Christians must use their vote to end alleged systemic racism, he was overseeing Christianity Today's political coverage, which the outlet claims is non-partisan.

This means Moore was formally partnering with a hyper-partisan group and promoting the material he developed from that partnership to Christianity Today's readers and podcast listeners.

This is an even greater ethical breach than the CT staffers who donated to Democrats while covering politics. It is a greater breach that merely taking the money of the hard-left, secular Rockefellers. Moore was taking partisan money to create material for churches and ministries and using his magazine to promote that political material without disclosing that it had been financed by an anti-Trump political group.

Do we really believe that after all the spending DDT has done to defeat Donald Trump this wasn't its aim in funding The After Party?

Is it any wonder then that in the run up to the election CT was white-washing Kamala Harris' record and encouraging Christians not to vote?

Whatever the purpose was for the $1.8 million listed as government grants on CT's 2023 tax return, this alone is damning stuff.
Wowzers. I heard Christianity Today was no longer really Christian but I had no idea. Devastating.
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In reply to f1ghtintexasaggie • 12:25p, 2/7/25
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f1ghtintexasaggie said:
Of all the ish that's come out, this make my blood boil the most. How the **** could this be allowed to happen? No money trail? No way to audit? This could have been sent directly to our own politicians with no way of knowing? Of course, they SAY it went to foreign entities, but how can we trust that?
The foxes have appointed themselves guardians of the hen house.

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12:30p, 2/7/25
Mike Johnson


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12:32p, 2/7/25
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that's a little confusing, it says you cannot expand either?
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12:34p, 2/7/25
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when is fiscal year 2024 over? maybe this is why the 8 months of severance?
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12:35p, 2/7/25
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If you can't fire USAID employees, haul everyone before Congress.
Make them explain payments under oath.
Ridicule them, and prosecute them when they lie.

You can resign, or you can go to prison. F*** all these leeches
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12:37p, 2/7/25
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It literally says the FUNDS appropriated in the act cannot be used to reorg. It doesn't prohibit reorg.
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In reply to AgBQ-00 • 12:39p, 2/7/25
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AgBQ-00 said:
when is fiscal year 2024 over? maybe this is why the 8 months of severance?
it was over Oct 1, 2024. Fed FY go from Oct 1 - Sept 30
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In reply to deddog • 12:40p, 2/7/25
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deddog said:
If you can't fire USAID employees, haul everyone before Congress.
Make them explain payments under oath.
Ridicule them, and prosecute them when they lie.

You can resign, or you can go to prison. F*** all these leeches
what makes you think congress wants any part of this, good chance most are getting piece of the pie
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In reply to BQ_90 • 12:41p, 2/7/25
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Awesome. So it is moot then. Clearly says it is for FY2024
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12:48p, 2/7/25
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Preemptively protecting USAID huh...find who wrote that part of the language and dig in.
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In reply to samurai_science • 12:51p, 2/7/25
samurai_science said:
Mike Johnson

Guess this is what they were doing last year when they were working furiously to 'Trump proof' the federal government.
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In reply to Stat Monitor Repairman • 12:54p, 2/7/25
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Stat Monitor Repairman said:
samurai_science said:
Mike Johnson

Guess this is what they were doing last year when they were working furiously to 'Trump proof' the federal government.
LOL I don't think they had any idea he was going to come out swinging like this.

Whatever they planned for hasn't worked. And thank God for that.
Trump will fix it.
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In reply to Tailgate88 • 1:13p, 2/7/25
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samurai_science said:
Is this confirmed?



DOGE sends firing notice to 9,0000 USAID employees as Trump pledges to 'CLOSE DOWN' entire agency
https://www.usaid.gov/

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Thank you for your service.
But when are they actually getting FIRED? I am not sure what placed on leave means?
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1:25p, 2/7/25
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Spreading social cohesion and 'democracy' across Eastern Europe.

Winning:

James Brown's hairpiece is melting down.

Trump truths:
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In reply to G Martin 87 • 1:38p, 2/7/25
G Martin 87 said:
It literally says the FUNDS appropriated in the act cannot be used to reorg. It doesn't prohibit reorg.
Thank you. Hopefully it means what it says IANAL
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1:39p, 2/7/25
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Ran across this old one. Real aid related. NSFW.

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In reply to Red Fishing Ag93 • 1:45p, 2/7/25
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Love this standup! "Look at this, its sand. You want to know what grows here? Nothing.... NOTHING GROWS HERE"
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This is amazing

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In reply to Red Fishing Ag93 • 3:05p, 2/7/25
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Ran across this old one. Real aid related. NSFW.

Sorry your slush fund got shut down, Bernie. The money wasn't getting to the poor people anyway, and you know it. The warlords aren't starving, you nitwit.
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In reply to aggiedata • 3:14p, 2/7/25
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This is like the grim reaper meme come to life with the Department of Education the next door.
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In reply to M4 Benelli • 6:39p, 2/7/25
The same people that stole these funds from the projects are also boycotting and crying about Mr Beast doing charity projects around the globe.
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In reply to SB IV • 6:42p, 2/7/25
SB IV said:
aggiedata said:
This is like the grim reaper meme come to life with the Department of Education the next door.


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In reply to fightingfarmer09 • 6:44p, 2/7/25
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TBF, some of them have a point. His charity projects center around self-promotion and aren't really sustainable. Like you can drill a bunch of wells in Africa and that's great, but if there's no infrastructure to maintain or service it then that's a short term benefit.
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In reply to TacosaurusRex • 6:51p, 2/7/25
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TacosaurusRex said:
SB IV said:
aggiedata said:
This is like the grim reaper meme come to life with the Department of Education the next door.


That is amazing!
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4:03a, 2/8/25
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$500 million for "Internews"???

Tucker Benz episode dropped, fyi.

Ernst blasts USAID:
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Ernst, who claims to have been threatened with legal action from USAID during her oversight efforts, alleged that the agency misled her staff at times.
Last September, she reached an agreement with USAID to parse through data on US funding to war-torn Ukraine. They insisted that her team look through the document in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, typically used for classified information.
But her staff quickly "discovered the documents were not classified."
"In a desperate attempt to limit congressional oversight of public information, USAID demonstrated intentional abuse of a system designed to keep our nation's secret information secure," Ernst complained in her letter to Rubio.
She noted that her team also learned that over 5,000 Ukrainian businesses garnered taxpayer funds of up to $2 million each.
"Many of these initiatives … claim to enhance Ukraine's wartime posture by increasing Ukrainian businesses' sales in new markets," she wrote. "Instead, the American people have funded extravagant trade missions and vacations for Ukrainian business owners to film festivals and fashion weeks across the glamorous [capitals] of Europe."
Another example of her team being lied to by the USAID occurred three years ago when she reached out for data on the agency's Negotiated Indirect Cost Rate Agreements (NICRAs) with grant recipients that permitted them to use funding on miscellaneous expenses.
"The agency responded to the request for information by claiming that, 'USAID does not have a system to track or report on this data, as it is not possible to compare indirect costs between for-profit and nonprofit organizations at the rate level,'" Ernst recounted to Rubio.
Corruption in Ukraine using our money? Shocking.
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8:23a, 2/8/25
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Check out this thread, LOL. NVIDIA founder's wife and a securocrat got a half billion funneled through this address?


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USAID has pushed nearly half a billion dollars ($472.6m) through a secretive US government financed NGO, "Internews Network" (IN), which has "worked with" 4,291 media outlets, producing in one year 4,799 hours of broadcasts reaching up to 778 million people and "training" over 9000 journalists (2023 figures). IN has also supported social media censorship initiatives.

The operation claims "offices" in over 30 countries, including main offices in US, London, Paris and regional HQs in Kiev, Bangkok and Nairobi. It is headed up by Jeanne Bourgault, who pays herself $451k a year. Bourgault worked out of the US embassy in Moscow during the early 1990s, where she was in charge of a $250m budget, and in other revolts or conflicts at critical times, before formally rotating out of six years at USAID to IN.

Bourgault's IN bio and those of its other key people and board members have been recently scrubbed from its website but remain accessible at archive.org. Records show the board being co-chaired by Democrat securocrat Richard J. Kessler and Simone Otus Coxe, wife of NVIDIA billionaire Trench Coxe, both major Democratic donors. In 2023, supported by Hillary Clinton, Bourgault launched a $10m IN fund at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI). The IN page showing a picture of Bourgault at the CGI has also been deleted.

IN has at least six captive subsidiaries under unrelated names including one based out of the Cayman Islands. Since 2008, when electronic records begin, more than 95% of IN's budget has been supplied by the US government (thread follows)

Bonus: Victoria Nuland's husband's sister sits on the board for Institute for the Study of War, a Bill Kristol pro-war propaganda outfit funded by the USAID.
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