Why? Genuinely curious and cant access X at work.Swan Song said:🚨BREAKING: Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been appointed as acting administrator of USAID. pic.twitter.com/1uiSJM5sz3
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) February 3, 2025
Trump Shutting Down USAID
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Speculation here.....50% of the taxes we pay are wasted.
**** THESE PEOPLE!!nortex97 said:When one looks back at the insane Biden(*) pardonapalooza fest in his last month/weeks in office, and the fanatical, desperate attempts to 'get Trump' including via funding from USAID for various offices such as those in NY, it all makes more sense now.Ag87H2O said:And then 2024 happened. Talk about a boomerang.Noctilucent said:"Fauci's NIAID and @USAID sent over $40M in U.S. taxpayer "support" to a scientist in Wuhan who was working on "bat coronavirus emergence" research, who also became "patient zero" for COVID-19?nortex97 said:
100 percent true. And Georgia/Romania/Slovakia (among others) still today.
"I didn't vote for Elon Musk, he's an unelected bureaucrat."
I didn't vote for the FBI, USAID, NED, CFPB, OSHA, DOE, ATF, CIA, PBS, CPB-NPR/PBS, FDA, WHO, UN, IRS, Federal Reserve, EPA , Fauci, or CDC.The level of corruption in these agencies is directly proportional to the Establishment's weeping and gnashing of teeth over the corruption being exposed.
— Ultra Maga Corgi King (@Corgi_King0421) February 3, 2025Mind-blowing 🤯 https://t.co/Vv7PnkaFYz
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 3, 2025
And the completion date for that funding was … in 2019???…"
Looks like the "democrats" and Deep Staters got what they needed just in time to sabotage the 2020 election, huh?
Trump wouldn't have gotten half the stuff done in four years if he had won in 2020 as he has been able to do in his first two weeks now. He is literally draining the swamp more rapidly than they can fill it back up.
Edit - And Pam Bondi is about to be very busy.
The Tides Center ($25 million from USAID), and it's spin out, the "Fair and Just Prosecution," USAID-funded, and Soros prosecutors (including Bragg office etc) all neatly tie together.
(Caution, nsfw language, strongly recommend watching or listening to this for 15 minutes when one gets a chance).Why did USAID give $27 million to the US fiscal sponsor of the group controlling Soros-funded prosecutors and telling them which American citizens and politicians to prosecute? https://t.co/nFm7wqXntQ
— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) February 2, 2025
Trump is now…on this **** is my point.
Someone with authority to carry out DOGE recommendations is my guess.
Hoyt Ag said:
[Why? Genuinely curious and cant access X at work.
Why not? They can't be trusted to do it themselves
JUST IN: USAID to be merged into the State Department with major workforce cuts, per AP
— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) February 3, 2025
Red Fishing Ag93 said:
Speculation here.....50% of the taxes we pay are wasted.
75-80% is likely closer.
Mattressburn said:
Nothing is more Christian than shuttering the government agency that helps struggling countries with food, medicine, and clean water.
That's just a cover. Weren't they the ones giving $50mm to Gasa for condom's?
Pretty sire .01% of that money went to condoms and the rest was for graft corruption and terrorism
It's how the US Govt funds both sides of the war
I mean it's pretty obvious when your an "aid" organization and you classify your govt spending transactions as top secret that you are doing some nasty **** that is 100% likely against the states interests of the USA
The world needs mean tweets
My Pronouns Ultra and MAGA
Trump 2024
My Pronouns Ultra and MAGA
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Beautiful freudian slip after 3 edits.Fightin_Aggie said:Mattressburn said:
Nothing is more Christian than shuttering the government agency that helps struggling countries with food, medicine, and clean water.
That's just a cover. Weren't they the ones giving $50mm to Gasa for condom's?
Pretty sire .01% of that money went to condoms and the rest was for graft corruption and terrorism
It's how the US Govt funds both sides of the war
I mean it's pretty obvious when your an "aid" organization and you classify your govt spending transactions as top secret that you are doing some nasty **** that is 100% likely against the states interests of the USA
USAID was created in 1961 via the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.Science Denier said:Elon Musk: Donald Trump 'agreed' USAID should be shut downjacketman03 said:Science Denier said:Musk is not shutting it down. Trump is.jacketman03 said:
Thread title says "Trump shuts down USAID", but the story is all about Musk saying he's going to do it. So I guess now we're cool with unelected bureaucrats taking control of government?
Nice principles you got there.
Here is a little education for you. The process is:
1. Musk finds bull**** waste,
2. Musk brings it to Trump,
3. Trump either approves or not
4. If Trump approves, the plan is carried out
I am GREATFUL that an outsider can look at a budget/org and make recommendations to Trump. Our country was almost totally ****ED by unelected bureaucrats. Now, these asswipes are being kicked out.
About time.
So where's the order from Trump directing Musk to do this? Don't worry, I'll wait for you to find it...
Trump has agreed. That's why it's going to progress.
You see, somethings are just not that hard.
Is the lib newsletter spewing "unelected bureaucrats" narrative? If so, you should get your money back on this week's issue.
Given that it was a law created by Congress, all Trump can do is fire everyone and not refill those positions.
But that doesn't "end" USAID. The next democrat president can simply re-fill those positions and bring USAID right back to where it was on January 19, 2025.
While a 4 year savings is nice, Trump has to get Congress to act to end USAID (and the Dept. of Education and whatever else he want to eliminate) so that it would require another act of Congress to bring the program back. THAT is the only thing that will actually "eliminate" USAID rather than simply hitting the pause button while Trump is POTUS.
“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. It's inherent virtue is the equal sharing of miseries." - Winston Churchill
We would have to get to a balanced budget first - which would take $2 trillion in cuts.FriendlyAg said:
Has anyone done the math if we reallocated these funds to pay down some of our debt obligations? I know we are spending 1.7 trillion or something on interest alone and 40b is probably a drop in the bucket, but you have to make some incremental progress, no?
I don't see the debt ever getting "paid down". We have to keep growing the economy (and revenues) at a faster rate than we are adding to the debt so we eventually get it back down to a reasonable percentage of GDP.
So... MAYBE in 12 years?pagerman @ work said:USAID was created in 1961 via the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.Science Denier said:Elon Musk: Donald Trump 'agreed' USAID should be shut downjacketman03 said:Science Denier said:Musk is not shutting it down. Trump is.jacketman03 said:
Thread title says "Trump shuts down USAID", but the story is all about Musk saying he's going to do it. So I guess now we're cool with unelected bureaucrats taking control of government?
Nice principles you got there.
Here is a little education for you. The process is:
1. Musk finds bull**** waste,
2. Musk brings it to Trump,
3. Trump either approves or not
4. If Trump approves, the plan is carried out
I am GREATFUL that an outsider can look at a budget/org and make recommendations to Trump. Our country was almost totally ****ED by unelected bureaucrats. Now, these asswipes are being kicked out.
About time.
So where's the order from Trump directing Musk to do this? Don't worry, I'll wait for you to find it...
Trump has agreed. That's why it's going to progress.
You see, somethings are just not that hard.
Is the lib newsletter spewing "unelected bureaucrats" narrative? If so, you should get your money back on this week's issue.
Given that it was a law created by Congress, all Trump can do is fire everyone and not refill those positions.
But that doesn't "end" USAID. The next democrat president can simply re-fill those positions and bring USAID right back to where it was on January 19, 2025.
While a 4 year savings is nice, Trump has to get Congress to act to end USAID (and the Dept. of Education and whatever else he want to eliminate) so that it would require another act of Congress to bring the program back. THAT is the only thing that will actually "eliminate" USAID rather than simply hitting the pause button while Trump is POTUS.
You must be a very positive, and potentially naive individual - and I mean that in the kindest way possible.Red Fishing Ag93 said:
Speculation here.....50% of the taxes we pay are wasted.
pagerman @ work said:USAID was created in 1961 via the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.Science Denier said:Elon Musk: Donald Trump 'agreed' USAID should be shut downjacketman03 said:Science Denier said:Musk is not shutting it down. Trump is.jacketman03 said:
Thread title says "Trump shuts down USAID", but the story is all about Musk saying he's going to do it. So I guess now we're cool with unelected bureaucrats taking control of government?
Nice principles you got there.
Here is a little education for you. The process is:
1. Musk finds bull**** waste,
2. Musk brings it to Trump,
3. Trump either approves or not
4. If Trump approves, the plan is carried out
I am GREATFUL that an outsider can look at a budget/org and make recommendations to Trump. Our country was almost totally ****ED by unelected bureaucrats. Now, these asswipes are being kicked out.
About time.
So where's the order from Trump directing Musk to do this? Don't worry, I'll wait for you to find it...
Trump has agreed. That's why it's going to progress.
You see, somethings are just not that hard.
Is the lib newsletter spewing "unelected bureaucrats" narrative? If so, you should get your money back on this week's issue.
Given that it was a law created by Congress, all Trump can do is fire everyone and not refill those positions.
But that doesn't "end" USAID. The next democrat president can simply re-fill those positions and bring USAID right back to where it was on January 19, 2025.
While a 4 year savings is nice, Trump has to get Congress to act to end USAID (and the Dept. of Education and whatever else he want to eliminate) so that it would require another act of Congress to bring the program back. THAT is the only thing that will actually "eliminate" USAID rather than simply hitting the pause button while Trump is POTUS.
Dept of ed was created via executive order
Another Carter disaster along with giving away the Panama Canal.Who?mikejones! said:pagerman @ work said:USAID was created in 1961 via the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.Science Denier said:Elon Musk: Donald Trump 'agreed' USAID should be shut downjacketman03 said:Science Denier said:Musk is not shutting it down. Trump is.jacketman03 said:
Thread title says "Trump shuts down USAID", but the story is all about Musk saying he's going to do it. So I guess now we're cool with unelected bureaucrats taking control of government?
Nice principles you got there.
Here is a little education for you. The process is:
1. Musk finds bull**** waste,
2. Musk brings it to Trump,
3. Trump either approves or not
4. If Trump approves, the plan is carried out
I am GREATFUL that an outsider can look at a budget/org and make recommendations to Trump. Our country was almost totally ****ED by unelected bureaucrats. Now, these asswipes are being kicked out.
About time.
So where's the order from Trump directing Musk to do this? Don't worry, I'll wait for you to find it...
Trump has agreed. That's why it's going to progress.
You see, somethings are just not that hard.
Is the lib newsletter spewing "unelected bureaucrats" narrative? If so, you should get your money back on this week's issue.
Given that it was a law created by Congress, all Trump can do is fire everyone and not refill those positions.
But that doesn't "end" USAID. The next democrat president can simply re-fill those positions and bring USAID right back to where it was on January 19, 2025.
While a 4 year savings is nice, Trump has to get Congress to act to end USAID (and the Dept. of Education and whatever else he want to eliminate) so that it would require another act of Congress to bring the program back. THAT is the only thing that will actually "eliminate" USAID rather than simply hitting the pause button while Trump is POTUS.
Dept of ed was created via executive order
Entitlements (Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid & Interest) completely consumes the tax money the government takes in. As such, running the current operations of the federal government mandates more debt.A. G. Pennypacker said:We would have to get to a balanced budget first - which would take $2 trillion in cuts.FriendlyAg said:
Has anyone done the math if we reallocated these funds to pay down some of our debt obligations? I know we are spending 1.7 trillion or something on interest alone and 40b is probably a drop in the bucket, but you have to make some incremental progress, no?
I don't see the debt ever getting "paid down". We have to keep growing the economy (and revenues) at a faster rate than we are adding to the debt so we eventually get it back down to a reasonable percentage of GDP.
The ONLY way to ever pay down the debt is to have MAJOR changes to entitlements but there is zero appetite from either politicians or the public to do so.
From an exclusively budgetary standpoint, cutting these departments is insignificant.
NOTE for those with reading comprehension difficulties: that doesn't mean cutting programs like USAID shouldn't be done or is a bad thing. It simply means that doing so doesn't do much for the deficit/debt.
“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. It's inherent virtue is the equal sharing of miseries." - Winston Churchill
Carter was a really ****ty president and person.Quote:
Another Carter disaster along with giving away the Panama Canal.
Department of Education Organization ActWho?mikejones! said:pagerman @ work said:USAID was created in 1961 via the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.Science Denier said:Elon Musk: Donald Trump 'agreed' USAID should be shut downjacketman03 said:Science Denier said:Musk is not shutting it down. Trump is.jacketman03 said:
Thread title says "Trump shuts down USAID", but the story is all about Musk saying he's going to do it. So I guess now we're cool with unelected bureaucrats taking control of government?
Nice principles you got there.
Here is a little education for you. The process is:
1. Musk finds bull**** waste,
2. Musk brings it to Trump,
3. Trump either approves or not
4. If Trump approves, the plan is carried out
I am GREATFUL that an outsider can look at a budget/org and make recommendations to Trump. Our country was almost totally ****ED by unelected bureaucrats. Now, these asswipes are being kicked out.
About time.
So where's the order from Trump directing Musk to do this? Don't worry, I'll wait for you to find it...
Trump has agreed. That's why it's going to progress.
You see, somethings are just not that hard.
Is the lib newsletter spewing "unelected bureaucrats" narrative? If so, you should get your money back on this week's issue.
Given that it was a law created by Congress, all Trump can do is fire everyone and not refill those positions.
But that doesn't "end" USAID. The next democrat president can simply re-fill those positions and bring USAID right back to where it was on January 19, 2025.
While a 4 year savings is nice, Trump has to get Congress to act to end USAID (and the Dept. of Education and whatever else he want to eliminate) so that it would require another act of Congress to bring the program back. THAT is the only thing that will actually "eliminate" USAID rather than simply hitting the pause button while Trump is POTUS.
Dept of ed was created via executive order
In the Senate, 69 voted in favor and 22 voted against separating education from the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. In the House of Representatives, 215 voted in favor and 201 voted against. President Carter signed the bill on October 17, 1979.
“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. It's inherent virtue is the equal sharing of miseries." - Winston Churchill
I guarantee you these ass holes are already reaching out to foreign countries to stage some "disaster" that occurred as a result of lack of aid so they can point the finger at Trump and hold him responsible.
The good news is it will only be broadcast on legacy media that nobody watches anymore.
The good news is it will only be broadcast on legacy media that nobody watches anymore.
This is false. Department of Education Organization Act established the Department of Education. Jimmy Carter issued Executive Order 12212 which specifically references the authority vested in him by Congress to begin establishing the department. If you want to eliminate the Department of Education, then it must be eliminated by Congress just as it was created by Congress.
pagerman @ work said:Department of Education Organization ActWho?mikejones! said:pagerman @ work said:USAID was created in 1961 via the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.Science Denier said:Elon Musk: Donald Trump 'agreed' USAID should be shut downjacketman03 said:Science Denier said:Musk is not shutting it down. Trump is.jacketman03 said:
Thread title says "Trump shuts down USAID", but the story is all about Musk saying he's going to do it. So I guess now we're cool with unelected bureaucrats taking control of government?
Nice principles you got there.
Here is a little education for you. The process is:
1. Musk finds bull**** waste,
2. Musk brings it to Trump,
3. Trump either approves or not
4. If Trump approves, the plan is carried out
I am GREATFUL that an outsider can look at a budget/org and make recommendations to Trump. Our country was almost totally ****ED by unelected bureaucrats. Now, these asswipes are being kicked out.
About time.
So where's the order from Trump directing Musk to do this? Don't worry, I'll wait for you to find it...
Trump has agreed. That's why it's going to progress.
You see, somethings are just not that hard.
Is the lib newsletter spewing "unelected bureaucrats" narrative? If so, you should get your money back on this week's issue.
Given that it was a law created by Congress, all Trump can do is fire everyone and not refill those positions.
But that doesn't "end" USAID. The next democrat president can simply re-fill those positions and bring USAID right back to where it was on January 19, 2025.
While a 4 year savings is nice, Trump has to get Congress to act to end USAID (and the Dept. of Education and whatever else he want to eliminate) so that it would require another act of Congress to bring the program back. THAT is the only thing that will actually "eliminate" USAID rather than simply hitting the pause button while Trump is POTUS.
Dept of ed was created via executive order
In the Senate, 69 voted in favor and 22 voted against separating education from the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. In the House of Representatives, 215 voted in favor and 201 voted against. President Carter signed the bill on October 17, 1979.
I stand corrected. Thank you
The U.S. Department of Education was established as a separate Cabinet-level department on **October 17, 1979**, when President **Jimmy Carter** signed the **Department of Education Organization Act**. It officially began operations on **May 4, 1980**.
### Background:
- Before its creation, federal education responsibilities were handled by the **Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW)**.
- The push to create a standalone department came largely from teachers' unions, especially the **National Education Association (NEA)**, which endorsed Carter in 1976 in exchange for his support for the department.
- Conservatives and many Republicans opposed the move, seeing it as unnecessary federal overreach into education, which is traditionally a state and local responsibility.
### Opposition & Later Attempts to Abolish It:
- Ronald Reagan and many Republicans opposed the department from the start and sought to **abolish it** in the 1980s, arguing that it **centralized too much power in Washington**.
- Despite repeated efforts, the department remained intact and even expanded under both Republican and Democratic administrations.
Since its establishment, the Department of Education has grown in influence, primarily through **student loan programs, K-12 funding (like No Child Left Behind and Every Student Succeeds Act), and enforcement of civil rights laws in education**. However, debates over whether it should exist or be dismantled continue to this day.
👀🚨BREAKING:
— Derrick Evans (@DerrickEvans4WV) February 3, 2025
Democrat Senator Brian Shatz (HI) says he will place a “blanket hold” on all of Trump’s State Department nominees until USAID is back up & running again. pic.twitter.com/F3fedUTmUi
How many other nominees does Trump have for State Department?
Brian Shartz can EAD
That is already thwarted. Its under Rubio now and he is already there.aggiehawg said:👀🚨BREAKING:
— Derrick Evans (@DerrickEvans4WV) February 3, 2025
Democrat Senator Brian Shatz (HI) says he will place a “blanket hold” on all of Trump’s State Department nominees until USAID is back up & running again. pic.twitter.com/F3fedUTmUi
How many other nominees does Trump have for State Department?
I love when the grifters self-identify.aggiehawg said:👀🚨BREAKING:
— Derrick Evans (@DerrickEvans4WV) February 3, 2025
Democrat Senator Brian Shatz (HI) says he will place a “blanket hold” on all of Trump’s State Department nominees until USAID is back up & running again. pic.twitter.com/F3fedUTmUi
How many other nominees does Trump have for State Department?
USAID appears to be the biggest source of revenue for the DNC. Will be interesting to see what the coffers look like during the next election cycle.
For just a small percentage of the budget, it sure did offend a lot of people on the left. Hmmm. I wonder why.
Seems like a good time for FOIA requests re: USAID.
Just request everything.
Dems will say it is punitive to just release information. But if you are simply responding to a FOIA request, things go much smoother.
Just request everything.
Dems will say it is punitive to just release information. But if you are simply responding to a FOIA request, things go much smoother.
I kept thinking it's a mistake to be announcing plans before they took office.
Holy cow! The federal govt sent these Lutheran NGOs over $600 million just in December and January? Can that possibly be right? Did Biden just pre-fund all these NGOs to keep them afloat the next four years? https://t.co/nNNzz70usX
— Aaron M. Renn 🇺🇸 (@aaron_renn) February 3, 2025
If Dems want to do this the hard way, that’s their choice, but we’ll get these nominees confirmed one way or the other—even if that means staying in session (including weekends) for weeks on end
— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) February 3, 2025
Buckle up! https://t.co/W23IvxTQsq
Paging Senator Thune. Any day now, show a spine.
But in all seriousness, nothing they can do with Rubio and Trump at the top right now anyway.
There is a way to derail prefunding that might have been snuck in. Just deliberate but normal looking old-fashioned complete federal inefficiency and slowly grinding mills. If they can't stop it, route it through the slowest channels possible.
Summary of the last 48 hours: every person who is screaming bloody murder about Trump pausing USAID is getting money from USAID.
— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) February 3, 2025
Every single one of them is like this.
There is also the recoupment option subject to 31 C.F.R., Parts 900- 904.titan said:
There is a way to derail prefunding that might have been snuck in. Just deliberate but normal looking old-fashioned complete federal inefficiency and slowly grinding mills. If they can't stop it, route it through the slowest channels possible.
Nanomachines son said:Summary of the last 48 hours: every person who is screaming bloody murder about Trump pausing USAID is getting money from USAID.
— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) February 3, 2025
Every single one of them is like this.
Like Elon talked about last night, the fraudsters are always the ones who scream the loudest.
🚨ELON MUSK: "One lesson I remember from the PayPal days: Do you know who complained the loudest? The Fraudsters. There would be immediate over the top indignation from the fraudsters. Normal people will say "I think there's something wrong," Fraudsters will come hot out the gate…
— Autism Capital 🧩 (@AutismCapital) February 3, 2025
Quote:
ELON MUSK: "One lesson I remember from the PayPal days: Do you know who complained the loudest? The Fraudsters. There would be immediate over the top indignation from the fraudsters. Normal people will say "I think there's something wrong," Fraudsters will come hot out the gate with fake outrage. They'll claim that they're a single mom with kids trying to make ends meet, but it'll be some dude in another country scamming others. We're going to see some pretty outrageous stuff from the fraudsters as we continue cracking down, they're going to be the loudest."
The Adam Schiff types are the perfect analogs of this in Congress.Hubert J. Farnsworth said:Nanomachines son said:Summary of the last 48 hours: every person who is screaming bloody murder about Trump pausing USAID is getting money from USAID.
— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) February 3, 2025
Every single one of them is like this.
Like Elon talked about last night, the fraudsters are always the ones who scream the loudest.🚨ELON MUSK: "One lesson I remember from the PayPal days: Do you know who complained the loudest? The Fraudsters. There would be immediate over the top indignation from the fraudsters. Normal people will say "I think there's something wrong," Fraudsters will come hot out the gate…
— Autism Capital 🧩 (@AutismCapital) February 3, 2025Quote:
ELON MUSK: "One lesson I remember from the PayPal days: Do you know who complained the loudest? The Fraudsters. There would be immediate over the top indignation from the fraudsters. Normal people will say "I think there's something wrong," Fraudsters will come hot out the gate with fake outrage. They'll claim that they're a single mom with kids trying to make ends meet, but it'll be some dude in another country scamming others. We're going to see some pretty outrageous stuff from the fraudsters as we continue cracking down, they're going to be the loudest."
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