DOGE shut down USAID

[C_T_Russell]

Here is why:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025...runs-deep/
None of the following benefit the people of america.

• $1.5 million to “advance diversity equity and inclusion in Serbia’s workplaces and business communities”
  
• $70,000 for production of a “DEI musical” in Ireland
  
• $2.5 million for electric vehicles for Vietnam
  
• $47,000 for a “transgender opera” in Colombia
  
• $32,000 for a “transgender comic book” in Peru
  
• $2 million for sex changes and “LGBT activism” in Guatemala
  
• $6 million to fund tourism in Egypt
  
• Hundreds of thousands of dollars for a non-profit linked to designated terrorist organizations — even AFTER an inspector general launched an investigation
  
• Millions to EcoHealth Alliance — which was involved in research at the Wuhan lab
  
• “Hundreds of thousands of meals that went to al Qaeda-affiliated fighters in Syria”
  
• Funding to print “personalized” contraceptives birth control devices in developing countries
  
• Hundreds of millions of dollars to fund “irrigation canals, farming equipment, and even fertilizer used to support the unprecedented poppy cultivation and heroin production in Afghanistan,” benefiting the Taliban
  

[Oh_hunnihunni]

I am becoming more bemused by the day by the number of people strangely interested in what is inside other people's knickers. Do they not know that it's none of their business?

[harm_less]

Here is why:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025...runs-deep/
None of the following benefit the people of america.

• $1.5 million to “advance diversity equity and inclusion in Serbia’s workplaces and business communities”
  

Etc....

In another post you mention the US having 36 trillion of debt yet here you are quibbling about millions and even tens of 1,000s of dollars. The points you've raised here are not even chicken feed in the greater picture. You need to gain some perspective and a basic understanding of mathematics.

[king1]

Here is why:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025...runs-deep/
None of the following benefit the people of america.

• $1.5 million to “advance diversity equity and inclusion in Serbia’s workplaces and business communities”
  
• $70,000 for production of a “DEI musical” in Ireland
  
• $2.5 million for electric vehicles for Vietnam
  
• $47,000 for a “transgender opera” in Colombia
  
• $32,000 for a “transgender comic book” in Peru
  
• $2 million for sex changes and “LGBT activism” in Guatemala
  
• $6 million to fund tourism in Egypt
  
• Hundreds of thousands of dollars for a non-profit linked to designated terrorist organizations — even AFTER an inspector general launched an investigation
  
• Millions to EcoHealth Alliance — which was involved in research at the Wuhan lab
  
• “Hundreds of thousands of meals that went to al Qaeda-affiliated fighters in Syria”
  
• Funding to print “personalized” contraceptives birth control devices in developing countries
  
• Hundreds of millions of dollars to fund “irrigation canals, farming equipment, and even fertilizer used to support the unprecedented poppy cultivation and heroin production in Afghanistan,” benefiting the Taliban
  

so rather generously one might say maybe $20 million in 'savings' -  the USAID budget is approx $40 Billion.  One might call that a drop in the ocean...

[C_T_Russell]

I am becoming more bemused by the day by the number of people strangely interested in what is inside other people's knickers. Do they not know that it's none of their business?

Exactly my whole point, why should the US govt fund this rubbish, let alone outside the US?

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Here is why:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025...runs-deep/
None of the following benefit the people of america.

• $1.5 million to “advance diversity equity and inclusion in Serbia’s workplaces and business communities”
  

Etc....

In another post you mention the US having 36 trillion of debt yet here you are quibbling about millions and even tens of 1,000s of dollars. The points you've raised here are not even chicken feed in the greater picture. You need to gain some perspective and a basic understanding of mathematics.

It all adds up, and while it looks like chicken feed, you really need to see the rest of the rubbish USAID was spending, it runs into the billions.

[king1]

so that was the fraud and corruption in USAID huh?

[harm_less]

In another post you mention the US having 36 trillion of debt yet here you are quibbling about millions and even tens of 1,000s of dollars. The points you've raised here are not even chicken feed in the greater picture. You need to gain some perspective and a basic understanding of mathematics.

It all adds up, and while it looks like chicken feed, you really need to see the rest of the rubbish USAID was spending, it runs into the billions.

Are you really that mathematically challenged?

[C_T_Russell]

Are you really that mathematically challenged?

No, there is more that totals up that's not quoted.

[king1]

Are you really that mathematically challenged?

No, there is more that totals up that's not quoted.

about 200,000% more by the looks of it...

[Oh_hunnihunni]

Are you really that mathematically challenged?

No, there is more that totals up that's not quoted.

But but but - Doge promised full transparency...

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I liked the bit where Doge employees were firing themselves, lol.

Another tiny silver lining.

[zqwerty]

More Trumpanzee B.S.

https://i.redd.it/kjfvk7603zme1.jpeg

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Remember I said Trump will be the cause of the 3rd World War, he is super bad news

https://i.redd.it/w3dicm2ydyme1.jpeg

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Local resident confronts anti-abortion protestors

https://v.redd.it/2e687rmt3yme1

Musk is being stupid as well

https://i.redd.it/5dw7548gezme1.jpeg

More Trumpanzee corruption

https://i.redd.it/xgf07v5cxxme1.jpeg

[Lilith7]

More Trumpanzee B.S.

https://i.redd.it/kjfvk7603zme1.jpeg

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Remember I said Trump will be the cause of the 3rd World War, he is super bad news

https://i.redd.it/w3dicm2ydyme1.jpeg

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Local resident confronts anti-abortion protestors

https://v.redd.it/2e687rmt3yme1

Musk is being stupid as well

https://i.redd.it/5dw7548gezme1.jpeg

More Trumpanzee corruption

https://i.redd.it/xgf07v5cxxme1.jpeg

That last one could come in handy; there must be all sorts of things which could be added to a dinner...

[zqwerty]

Look what else stupid Trumpanzee and Co are doing, could it be that they are so ignorant that they don't like the word "Gay" or is it because the plane is given a female name?

Pentagon Wipes Records of Famed WWII Plane 'Enola Gay', Named After the Pilot's Mom, Because 'DEI' Is Dead

https://nz.news.yahoo.com/pentagon-wipes...54450.html

We truly are living with ignorant barbarians amongst us.

[Lilith7]

Look what else stupid Trumpanzee and Co are doing, could it be that they are so ignorant that they don't like the word "Gay" or is it because the plane is given a female name?

Pentagon Wipes Records of Famed WWII Plane 'Enola Gay', Named After the Pilot's Mom, Because 'DEI' Is Dead

https://nz.news.yahoo.com/pentagon-wipes...54450.html

We truly are living with ignorant barbarians amongst us.

They really don't seem to understand that they're making their country a laughing stock around the world....

[C_T_Russell]

No, there is more that totals up that's not quoted.

But but but - Doge promised full transparency...

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I liked the bit where Doge employees were firing themselves, lol.

Another tiny silver lining.

It is transparent, and they publish everything in full detail on their website and X feeds.
Anyway, the rot runs deep and DOGE have only just got started.
It's also been revealed that the democrats have used USAID as a money laundering scheme.
No wonder it's upsetting so many.
Things are going to get worse before it gets better.

[Oh_hunnihunni]

They publish stuff, and then when the media fact checks it they renege, or just remove it. Not what I call transparency...

As for the rest ct, that's more rabbit hole material.

One of the reasons DoGE is upsetting people is the illegality of what they are doing, and the obvious corruption that follows those moves. How come every department tasked with monitoring the safety of Musk involved businesses is either being hollowed out, or deregistered entirely? How come the court orders to stop their activities are being ignored? And how come their own party reps are starting to lodge objections to those activities? And how come none of the fraud they have 'uncovered' is being prosecuted?

Worse for sure, but I am not as confident as you about the better to come...

[king1]

you know, the money laundering thing would normally grab my attention - presumably from another late night post on twitter or 'truth' [sic] by Trump/Musk so I just can't seem to take it seriously.

In a few days or weeks it will turn out to be someone at USAID claimed some panadol on his/her charge account...