USAid spent under $22 Billion last year.

It was 0.3% of federal spending. Cutting USAid is not about saving money. Cutting USAid has already killed many people.

https://www.bu.edu/sph/news/articles/2025/tracking-anticipated-deaths-from-usaid-funding-cuts/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2fXo82Z3GGZYE0hpM1xHW2nib9jGgIXxea8xH6Iv7E0aI0dksA70nCK7k_aem_6TxWvTdSJp7ko2c0h3VUhg

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zonavar68 · 56-60, M

This might be an unpopular view, but until a country can properly look after it's own people it should not engage in any foreign aid operations.

JonLosAngeles66 · M

@zonavar68 we can walk and chew gum at the same time. Remember Ebola? Imagine if we had no one over there.

zonavar68 · 56-60, M

@JonLosAngeles66 I'm just saying that we look at charities and giving without looking after our own first.

JonLosAngeles66 · M

@zonavar68 they're cutting that too.

Roundandroundwego · 61-69

@zonavar68 the people in the country voted not to care for themselves and to let themselves go.

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@zonavar68 The two have never been mutually exclusive.

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@zonavar68 And it has never been about not being able to look after their own people in the US. Your political class has taken a deliberate decision not to.

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