As the DOGE minions stop into different agencies, vacuum up data, and issue ‘cuts’ rubber stamped by frightened Trump Admin bosses?
People Have STOPPED working IN the US Government and Across AMERICA
(USAID Money and JOBS actually come BACK to America when it is spent..So does US Foreign Aid Money)
As the number’s increase?
This IS going to begin showing up in the economy…..
And THAT IS gonna become a BIG political problem for ole’ Donald….
Again?
We’re NOT talking about Twitter….
A private Social Media Blog….
USAID oversees projects such as food aid, disaster relief and health programs in over 100 countries with a staff of more than 10,000 and a budget of around $40 billion. Billions of those dollars flowed back into the American economy until President Donald Trump ordered a 90-day freeze on foreign-aid spending last month.
Now U.S. businesses that sold goods and services to USAID are in limbo. That includes American farms, which supply about 41 percent of the food aid that the agency, working with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, sends around the world each year, according to a 2021 report by the Congressional Research Service. In 2020, the U.S. government bought $2.1 billion in food aid from American farmers.
Purchases and shipments of U.S. food aid worth over $340 million — including rice, wheat and soybeans — have been paused during Trump’s foreign-aid freeze, according to officials and an email obtained by The Post. That has left hundreds of tons of American-grown wheat stranded in Houston alone, Rep. Angie Craig of Minnesota, the highest-ranking Democrat on the House Agriculture Committee, said Tuesday.
Besides farmers, researchers whose work is funded by USAID have been furloughed. Smaller companies in sectors such as global health care could go out of business, upending the jobs of office staff and security guards. Experts and representatives from the industries affected said the disruption will worsen if the pause in spending persists and USAID continues to lose staff that once administered these programs.
“You’re talking about a direct impact on American products and American jobs,” said George Ingram, a senior fellow at the Center for Sustainable Development at the Brookings Institution….
Hits on USAID seem to be VASDTLY Overstated and Just plain Wrong….
The news release then listed 12 examples, plucked from the websites of right-wing media. But the numbers cited — as low as $32,000 — hardly justify the claim that these are “massive sums” of money. In fact, they are so low that some of the funds appear to have been awarded at the ambassador level, without Washington involvement. At least one dated from the first Trump administration, and some were actually State Department grants, not USAID….
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Is THIS why Democratic lawmakers in Congress seem to sitting on their hands ….Waiting for the bottome to fall out?
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