The destruction of USAID will see CIA back running things and China winning
USAID could slash staff to hundreds after placing most on leave
America’s foreign aid agency could see its staff slashed from about 10,000 to fewer than 300 globally as the Trump administration makes major cuts to government spending.
All but a handful of essential staff are already set to be placed on administrative leave at midnight on Friday, including thousands based abroad. An online notice says a plan is being prepared for return travel and the termination of non-essential contractors.
One union representing employees, which is involved in a legal challenge to the plan, told the BBC’s US partner CBS News that just 294 staff have been deemed essential.
Trump’s cutbacks to USAID – championed by his adviser Elon Musk – have upended the global aid system.
Jesus wept this is the most insane thing Trump is doing out of a Hierarchy of Insane shit that he is ramming through.
If you hate the Deep State, murdering USAID so that the funding goes back inside the CIA seems remarkably stupid.
USAID is a necessary promotion of democratic values donating aid worth $43billion each year for water, food and public health services that promote the values of the West.
Taking aid out of the CIA and making it a public health and basic care issue was the right thing to do, amputating it because some money was spent on Palestinian condoms and a transgender opera is incredibly spastic when you consider none of this was a secret and was all open for the public to check!
The way Fox News has been covering this as if all the spending was somehow a secret that no one knew is ridiculous because the spending was all online!
America spreading democratic values and progressive social policy is one of the few things they do that is actually necessary, to gut .7% of US spending for aid the planet needs will open the door for China to step in and take over.
Trump and Musk are dangerous and have no idea the rammfictaions of this.
This is becoming more stupid by the passing day.
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The US would be better off spending that 43 billion on its own infrastructure / maintaining its borders / defence forces / or redesigning its healthcare system – Muslims etc are going to hate the US regardless of how much or how little the US does to try and help them.
China is going to leap in and fund Iraqi Sesame Street to the tune of $20 million?
(Honestly google Iraqi Sesame Street meme it’s hilarious)
America First means America alone
Absolute nonsense. The existence of fake ‘independent’ and ‘humanitarian’ organizations like USAID and the NED is what lets scum like Anne-Marie Brady pretend they aren’t CIA puppets.
They are CIA puppets, they have committed high treason, they must be held to account for their crimes.
Elon Musk Says USAID is ‘Criminal’. USAID $42 billion annual budget. Elon Musk pending Tesla annual $101 billion pay package, net worth $429 billion.
USAID is again a bone to throw at the US public and Democrats to keep them distracted from other things like what the DOGE bags are doing to US treasury and other deep access into federal depts.
Hold on are you saying not having a mask on the Cia is a problem.
What did the usaided colour revolutions do for the peoples of Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Hong Kong, Ukraine – like they are all democracies now.
yep. the current executive are dreaming. it’s all a plant. small time grift to fake it , back-side grift to take it. we are serfs. ticket clipped to subsistence.