Trump administration cuts million dollars donation for Nepal.
Gotta pinch as many pennies as we can to fund the most important causes like funneling more money into the pockets of billionaires.
There’s also a chance that many of these are employing Americans carrying out this work. So it may not even be the most extreme thought that “all this money is leaving America”. He could be cutting American jobs, that pay American taxes (so a portion of that comes right back to the tax fund).
Well done to DOGE for absolutely tearing up the place scrounging up the US Government’s metaphorical pennies, whilst ignoring actual budget inefficiencies, such as the infamously overzealous military budget
Leave it to the trump regime to fuck around and revive things like the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.
Which America pretty much let happen. We were happy to fuck around in Vietnam, where we lost, and Korea but Cambodia? Nothing to see there folks.
Korea but Cambodia
completely agree about cambodia, nixon’s hideous bullshit there is still killing kids through unexploded ord. Korea?
I mean maybe I don’t get your gist but we fought a long war there then pretty much occupied the place for the remainder.
Americans really don’t know anything about Cambodia.
I once went on a Holiday in Cambodia.
Damn $19M for a biodiversity conversation?!?! What are they conversing about?! \s
The thing is, you can make anything at all sound stupid if you try, and they are. There’s many earth-shattering scientific studies that can be made to sound idiotic. You’re not building a fission reactor, you’re “finding out what happens when you stack spicy rocks and get them wet”.
I’d like to thank DOGE for single handedly strengthening Chinas soft power around the world!
This whole list amounts to $729 million. That is 20% of the $3.5 billion in additional money we sent in one month to Israel to buy bombs and missiles. You can see what kind of goodwill our government is really interested in “spreading”. Maybe the USAID money was well spent and we could do something about the money that is going to death, misery and creating more hate against us? Crazy talk, I know.
Look how they snuck empowering women (in the USA) in the middle
Tripping over pennies to lose dollars. These turds do not understand soft power and international trade.
It’s such an easy concept. I can’t figure out if they actually don’t get it because they are so narcissistic and why would anyone appreciate a few million in aid or if they are just playing stupid to posture to their base and be able to do even worse while everyone is distracted.
I think the later might be more accurate and I’m really curious what else I am missing.
Never underestimate bad students who reject academically rigorous ideas because they’re intimidated by smart people.
Yup. And by the end of the week China will step in and replace all of that funding.
And then we’ll be left wondering why we’re being kicked out of all our overseas bases. And then why the SEA countries are acquiescing to everything China wants and then why Taiwan gives up major concessions like allotting high quality computer parts to China.
It’s all connected.
Taking bets on him thinking it’s some kind of DEI program for nipples.
We would save so much more if musk just fucking exploded.
They are deliberately not giving the time scale on these things, and this is all from inception of these programs. This is a cumulative total of spending over decades in most cases, and definitely over many years for others.
Fuck these assholes for trying to justify their existence.
I’m not surprised he’s against anti corruption campaigns in Serbia. That’s kind of the opposite of his whole deal.
Its insane that these guys don’t realise that USAID and all these programs are all about soft power. So many of these countries are going to turn on the US and they’re going to shocked pikachu face when a bunch of new wars and terror attacks spring up.
You could just say “they’ll act shocked”.
Where’s the fun in that
They do, they just don’t care.
I don’t think they’re aware that they’re actively dismantling US empire by doing shit like this. They just think “this is charity. charity bad”
I think they are absolutely aware. Musk has business in China. This is a gift to them so they scratch his back in return.
I don’t agree. A quid pro quo with China and this admin would involve removing tariffs, not something so indirect like this.
It’s not with the administration, it’s with Elon.
They do, they are just removing the soft power “carrot” and are going to rely on military force instead. They rely on forcing people to conform because that’s all they know how to do as corporate dictators. Just view their actions as that of CEOs. The little people don’t matter and will do what they’re told. Manipulate investors and PR for more money and control. Take your golden parachute when everything falls apart.
Totally mad given that the US military has had a huge recruitment drought for years and that they’re simultaneously gutting benefits.
Like I said. The little people don’t matter. Watch trump, assuming this coup destroys democracy as we know it and we become Republicanistan, force mandatory service.
What in all of that list am I supposed to be upset about? All i see are good causes to better medical and Democratic outcomes in other countries.
I’d rather my tax dollars be spent on these things, than more cyber trucks or whatever.
Any sane semi-intelligent human would agree but we don’t live in that world.
Kinda curious what the reaction are but not enough to give that Nazi traffic.
Ooh, ooh, look at the price of a single Tomahawk missile or anything else we regularly blow up, even in training exercises!
You can either aid democracy in South Africa, or have 1 Tomahawk. I wonder which does the most good…
