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Why is America trying to get rid of USAID? It's simple...

It's because USAID was investigating Starlink and its ties to Putin.

That is all.

https://www.newsweek.com/usaid-elon-musk-starlink-probe-ukraine-2027054

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robingoodfellow · M

Half a million tons of food is going to waste because of the usaid shutdown.

https://www.newsweek.com/half-million-tons-food-risks-going-waste-usaid-shut-down-2027861

Patriot96 · 56-60, C

@robingoodfellow why isnt local govt distributing the food

Thrust · 56-60, M

@robingoodfellow

You are complaining about cleaning up grotesque corruption. What a ding aling

SW-User

@Thrust How about providing an example of the "grotesque corruption" from an agency that has always helped the poorest people on Earth?

Patriot96 · 56-60, C

@Thrust we will solve our problems, let them solve theirs

Thrust · 56-60, M

@SW-User it's been all over the news every day. Try looking at something besides bluesky

SW-User

@Thrust How about providing an example of the "grotesque corruption" from an agency that has always helped the poorest people on Earth?

I challenge you to provide one, with a source.

Patriot96 · 56-60, C

@SW-User how about millions to Gaza for condoms,

SW-User

@Patriot96 How is that "corrupt"? Plus, there's no evidence of this.

robingoodfellow · M

@Patriot96 much of the food is sitting in US ports.

robingoodfellow · M

@SW-User a lot of the corruption talk comes from conspiracy theory websites. I welcome Musk and Trump to show the American public real proof, hold up dollars spent and where they actually went. But they're not doing that, are they.

SW-User

@robingoodfellow I would go as far as to say ALL of the corruption talk comes from conspiracy websites. But because they are not the "mainstream media", it is swallowed hook line and sinker by the MAGA cult.

Thrust · 56-60, M

@SW-User

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SW-User

@Thrust I'll say for a third time: How about providing an example of the "grotesque corruption" from an agency that has always helped the poorest people on Earth? Just one will do.

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SW-User

@Patriot96 Depends what your definition of news is. But I'll ask you to provide just one instance of the "gross corruption" of USAID. And the condoms don't count; that's been confirmed as fake news.

Patriot96 · 56-60, C

@SW-User 84 million to Chelsea Clinton. Couple million to Iran for a Sesame Street show. Couple million to Sudan for transgender operations

SW-User

@Patriot96 1. The $84 million to Chelsea Clinton is fake news.

2. The "transgender operations" were actually in Colombia, not Sudan, it was not a couple of million and it wasn't even for operations.

The grant included $25,000 of federal spending, and it came from the State Department, not USAID. The money was awarded to Universidad De Los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia, as part of a public diplomacy program which aims to "advance national interests, and enhance national security by informing and influencing foreign publics," and by strengthening the relationship between the United States and the world.

The money went toward a 2022 production of "As One," a coming-of-age story and opera about a transgender woman. It was for approximately $30,000, and the funding was from the US State Department not USAID.

3. The Sesame Street program was in Iraq, not Iran. The grant was $13 million, and the money was, again authorised by the US State Department.

Patriot96 · 56-60, C

@robingoodfellow the current organization if rife with fraud and corruption. It is being reorganized under the State Dept

SW-User

@Patriot96 No evidence for rife fraud and corruption, except on far-right conspiracy websites.

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