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By ELLEN KNICKMEYER WASHINGTON©2025 GPlusMedia Inc.
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TaiwanIsNotChina
Absolutely disgusting how MAGAs don't care about national security. Will be back under Trump's successor just to spite him I hope.
Underworld
Not you choice Trump.
The fact is that this agency is how the US projects "soft power" in the world. Unfortunately Trump doesn't understand foreign policy.
It's also costing ~50,000 US private sector jobs.
It's affecting farmers who sell their crops to USAID.
iknowall
Finally a leader actually leads and dismantles this useless organization that promoted wasteful spending of US taxpayer's dollars for years.
Trump has every right, and he is right, to close down USAID and bring the money back home.
TaiwanIsNotChina
It's 0.6% of the US budget. You will save nothing and cost the US everything.
plasticmonkey
The purpose of this is not to save money. The purpose is to symbolically stick it to “the left”. Being cruel is considered a big win. Turns the MAGA people on bigly.
bass4funk
BS
Vance wouldn’t do that.
No, it’s just Dems have to take it, nothing more, quite simple
FizzBit
Win win
stormcrow
Yesterday Trump was leading a prayer breakfast and howling about bringing God back into the classroom, and today Trump is destroying a program which feeds tens if not hundreds of thousands of hungry children. It seems very un-Christian, doesn't it?
iknowall
USAID was funding the left?
Yrral
Federal judge overruled Trump, stopped the shutter of USAIDS
wallace
The USAID buildings signs have been ripped down.
plasticmonkey
Thank you for agreeing with me.
TaiwanIsNotChina
MAGAs still don't understand that our oceans will not protect us from our economic enemies.
iknowall
Like it or not, it's Trump's choice.
He knocked Biden out of the election and crushed Kamala. So, it's the Trump Tornado.
The fact is, promoting lesbian dance theory in Nigeria is actually projecting weakness.
Trump understands foreign policy well, which is why he is ending Democrat-induced wasteful spending.
lincolnman
The only question is how big was the payoff from Xi so China and the CCP could take over aid and influence to all these countries...
iknowall
Finally a conspiracy the Democrats can screech about for a few days!
I'veSeenFootage
Nothing says "my country is rapidly going down the toilet" than a government pursuing grievance-based policies founded on the sole principle of sticking it to the other guys. And their rabid fans are cheering them on while their lives gets progressively worse.
Blacklabel
zero. China can have “these countries”.
wallace
The US gave the greatest aid, $60 billion but the UK gives more per capita, $20 billion.
lincolnman
Who says?
Well at least that's consistent for a guy that says "Russia can have Ukraine"...
Russia, China, and MAGA - the new Axis of Evil?
plasticmonkey
What a cynical, nihilistic, misanthropic view.
bass4funk
We will be ok.
Blacklabel
how so?
I feel we shouldn’t be giving international aid to impoverished or war torn sovereign countries in an attempt to take advantage of their desperate situation.
you all for that?
iknowall
Interesting, what Trump is doing.
Keeping his campaign promises!
And all the power to Trump.
Americans should be mortified and outraged that their taxpayer money was paying a concrete company in Gaza - -owned by Hamas, that was building tunnels that were used to keep hostages, including Americans.
It's disgusting that the Democrats support that type of foreign "aid".