USAID is Democrat Dark Money, and they are HOWLING that DOGE is saving the taxpayers a billion dollars a day.

Let me count the ways:

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6368281606112

$20 million for Iraqi Sesame Street
$2 million for Moroccan Pottery classes
$11 million to tell Vietnam to stop burning trash
$27 million to give gift bags to illegals before we deport them
Millions to help Afghanis grow crops instead of opium. As a result opium production has skyrocketed
$300 million to Afghanis to build diesel fuel power plants, which they can't use because diesel is too expensive
$200 million on a dam that was too unsafe to be used
$250 million to build a road that cannot be used. It is actually a road that goes nowhere
$9 million to Syrians for humanitarian aid, but someone messed up and that money went to Al Qaeda
$1 million for bat research in Wuhan
Funding Fashion Week in Paris. (France hasn't paid its NATO dues but USAID pays for Fashion Week.)

As Jesse Watters summed up, USAID is only .7 percent of the federal budget. Imagine the fraud, waste and abuse when DOGE looks elsewhere. Imagine the billions wasted by the Pentagon.

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Northwest · M

$1B per day. They would run out of money in 40 days.

Reason10 · 70-79, M

@Northwest $1B per day. They would run out of money in 40 days.

A federal program running out of money? And this with Democrats BORROWING trillions of dollars each year?

What should give YOU the red ass is the fact that USAID is .7 percent of the federal budget. If THIS massive amount of cash is being wasted by this Democrat dark money pit, how much more money is wasted by other agencies?

Northwest · M

@Reason10 Democrats have been borrowing money when the GOP has been in control of either House or Senate, or both, for more than 8 years?

I'm surprised you did not include the $50M USAID spent on condoms for Hamas, seeing that Trump and Mush have been shopping around this turd.

Carla · 61-69, F

@Northwest it's one hundred million now.

Reason10 · 70-79, M

@Northwest Democrats have been borrowing money when the GOP has been in control of either House or Senate, or both, for more than 8 years?

I'm surprised you did not include the $50M USAID spent on condoms for Hamas, seeing that Trump and Mush have been shopping around this turd.

Point well taken. I'm thinking that USAID (which is only .7 percent of the federal budget) is the tip of the iceberg.

Can you imagine what would happen (and the Democrat Howling) when DOGE brings it's genius tech nerd staff to places like the Department of Agriculture, Department of Commerce?

At this point, I'm thinking that the batshit crazy Democrats would probably prefer Trump just using his executive order to shut down the Department of Education. I don't think they want Musk and his tech nerds to audit that agency.

Northwest · M

@Carla

it's one hundred million now.

Yes, I forgot.

Carla · 61-69, F

@Northwest 200 million condoms would have made many bombs.
Whew! Glad elon caught that!

Northwest · M

@Reason10

genius tech nerd staff

Just because you know how to type, it does not mean you understood tech. Musk is no genius tech nerd. What he's really good at is stealing other people's ideas, then getting money from the government.

Tesla: Musk invested money in the company, then edged the founders out, and then got hundreds of $Ms from the Obama administration to start operations, then sold cars he had not built, started a stock scam to get the company going.

SpaceX: idea and tech came from other people, but the company failed. It was brought back to life using a $1.5 Billion from NASA.

Some of the institutions he now wants to gut.

I sincerely hope your personal data is safe, it's not like anyone is vetting all the foreign engineers he's using to sift through it.

Northwest · M

@Carla

200 million condoms would have made many bombs.
Whew! Glad elon caught that!

Yeah, imagine what would have happened if Hamas filled them with water and packaged the whole thing in the form of a giant water bomb.

Reason10 · 70-79, M

@Northwest Just because you know how to type, it does not mean you understood tech. Musk is no genius tech nerd. What he's really good at is stealing other people's ideas, then getting money from the government.

Definitely shows inferior blue state reading skills. It shows you don't know how to read links. The genius tech nerds came from Silicon Valley. Musk hired them to take a seven figure salary cut and work to root out fraud and abuse using AI.

We'll wait patiently while you produce actual records from a reliable source showing (a) the Tesla was a stolen idea, and (b)somehow the government paid for it.
Just because you throw handfuls of shit against the wall and hope they stick doesn't mean your OPINIONS have any more validity than anyone else. You're just a voice in a crowded room.

I provided a reliable link. You have tried to change the subject.
I haven't discussed Musk's businesses or how he made his money. I haven't brought it up. And that is irrelevant to the story today.

Northwest · M

@Reason10

We'll wait patiently while you produce actual records from a reliable source showing (a) the Tesla was a stolen idea, and (b)somehow the government paid for it.

Let me know when you emerge from your slumber, because this is common knowledge.

https://www.britannica.com/money/Tesla-Motors/Tesla-under-Musk-New-models-battery-technology-and-solar-energy

Highlights:

Tesla Motors was founded as an electric carmaker by engineers Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning in 2003.

Elon Musk, co-founder of Paypal, was an early investor in Tesla and board member, before taking over as CEO.

Details of the $465M loan Tesla received from the government:

https://www.energy.gov/lpo/tesla

As to your Fox link, this is the same one that included the claims shopped around by Trump and Musk about USAID doling out either $50M or $100M (the story changes) for condoms destined for Hamas.

Get real. Getting a blue state education is sour grapes for you.

Reason10 · 70-79, M

@Northwest
Yeah, imagine what would have happened if Hamas filled them with water and packaged the whole thing in the form of a giant water bomb.

KKKalifornia might have been happy.

Northwest · M

@Reason10

KKKalifornia might have been happy.

Here's what our dummy for President did. Get yourself educated:

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-02-03/trump-administration-dams-release-water

Reason10 · 70-79, M

@Northwest @Northwest Excuse me, but your source didn't suggest the Tesla was a stolen idea. The word STolen is nowhere to be found.

Your blue state teachers must all have been fresh out of kindergarten.

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