While the final fate of USAID is in the hands of Congress, there is no doubt that the organization's reputation has been burned to the ground. Perhaps more important is the people, domestic and abroad, who managed the web of leftist programs will not have the financial staying power to wait until this all gets settled. They will move on to other jobs. Lastly, we've turned the spotlight on the truth of how our money was used to spread political propaganda inside the United States to support one of the two major political parties.

Department of Government Efficiency @DOGE
Unburdened by what has been.

Elon Musk @elonmusk
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This building is now occupied by @CBP
9:10 PM · Feb 7, 2025. //

This is the new headquarters for US Customs and Border Protection.

If the agency is able to survive this near-death experience, nothing will ever be the same again.

GBenton
18 hours ago
I can only imagine what it's like to try to run a blog with this much incoming news.

But if the Democrats planned on a 90 day effort from Trump with something to fight every month or every week, they were woefully unprepared for something new every day - multiple times a day.

With social media coverage on X and on New Media like Red State and even Fox 24/7.

If this pace keeps up, can't see how they find their footing.

Especially when Trump's DOGE is cutting off their money supply and exposing genuine scandals that the public is outraged over because it affirms the frustrations that caused them to vote for Trump in the first place.

Dems are in deep, deep existential crap.

They probably shouldn't have tried to imprison Trump or delete him.

He's got no choice but to tear their stuff by the roots and scorch the earth so they can't regrow.

A century of Marxism is getting taken head on and from all sides.

OrneryCoot GBenton
18 hours ago
Ain't life grand? Trump figured out where the money was coming from and went for the throat. He has a good number of other targets, but this one will really sting a long list of players in the progressive movement, inside and outside of the government. Now to proceed at the same speed to the next targets.

GBenton OrneryCoot
17 hours ago
Because of how Trump 1.0 struggled with obstacles I suspected he would hit the Democrats on their weak flank rather than fuss with a slim majority in Congress.

My assumption was he would expose their corruption and criminality and destroy their brand so they would lose more seats in the mid terms and he'd secure his legacy in 2028.

The swamp is their home turf and there are enough Qusiling RINOs to sabotage his agenda in Congress and the courts are too often partisan adversaries rather than adjudicators of the law.

But the Democrats are a confidence game. They depend on the public not seeing what they are really doing.

I thought he'd focus on Crossfire Hurricane and a litany of other stuff like that to dirty them up.

Instead, Musk hit a flank I didn't even know existed in such a concentrated target - USAID is their piggy bank.

Sure, I figured they were corrupt, but that the whole mess could be exposed that quickly was a surprise to me - and probably them, too.

Now I'm positive this is just the tip of the iceberg. Every agency will reveal more rot.

And the states probably have satellite operations that mimic the larger pattern. Then there's the international stuff and NGOs and scumbags like Soros, etc.

The public is angry about inflation and crime and Trump exposed the Dems are stealing money and they ARE criminals.

Maybe they can survive this but I don't see how if all their grubby paws just got caught in the cookie jar.

After Trump's speech the other day about God and unity, it seems to me he will gut and destroy them but he will also make deals with Democrats like perhaps RFKjr to take over the husk of the party once he's done burning it to the ground.

The current leadership is all done though, the dominos he's set up haven't fallen - yet.

But he just said today there was "possibly" criminality with the funds at USAID.

In Trump-speak that means he has evidence of criminality.

Like I've been saying, he knows they tried to kill him. They ignored Sun Tzu and left him no way out but to go through them.

He can't just let power swap back and forth with the Uniparty every 2 to 4 years - they will never leave Trump or his family in peace.

So he has to destroy their machine. We're a few weeks in and they're taking massive hits that seem to be aimed at toppling them.

OrneryCoot GBenton
14 hours ago
With the way that Trump has become a one man wrecking ball for the Democrats along with his absolutely soaring approval from the public, I think that it may be a bit harder for the quislings to try and stop him. Not if they want to stay in office. The RNC is firmly in Trump's camp, and they control a lot of the money that goes into the midterm campaigns. Those who aren't on board may suddenly find themselves in the same position as Cheney and Kissinger...pariahs from the political world. It's all about the momentum and the scoreboard. So far, Trump is doing well enough to counter even the more prominent quislings like McConnell. If he keeps racking up wins, especially wins like USAID which are just bananas in their scope, I expect some legislation that will make those wins permanent. If Trump can get the House and Senate to start making real cuts in the Leviathan, we may yet save the country.

GBenton Light dispels darkness
17 hours ago
I'm guessing the controlled opposition, the RINOs, the Dems pet accomplices, are gonna be real quiet and hope they don't get exposed.

The impression I get is that Trump is so far ahead of them, he's got so much power in the government they built to oppress us, and so muchdirt on them that the old games are not gonna work.

He played their game last time.

This time, he's hitting them from all sides and he already knows all their weaknesses.

The thing to remember is they are all criminals and traitors.

And Trump can expose them all.

I'd bet money there are terms of surrender being negotiated behind the scenes with some pretty big names.

As soon as they really get that Trump already has them a move or two away from check mate they'll do whatever it takes to save their asses.

They can't even take him out because he's already got enough dirt to expose them even if he's gone.

The ultimate insurance policy is having them dead to rights.

Remarks
REMARKS BY PRESIDENT TRUMP
AT THE NATIONAL PRAYER BREAKFAST
February 6, 2025
THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of Communications

For Immediate Release

U.S. Capitol

Washington, D.C.

8:18 A.M. EST

THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much. This is very beautiful, I must say. This is a beautiful place. And our country is starting to do very well again. It’s happening fast — a little faster than people thought.

Thank you especially to Senator Marshall for the beautiful introduction. Appreciate it very much. Thank you. Great senator you are. //

From the earliest days of our republic, faith in God has always been the ultimate source of the strength that beats in the hearts of our nation.

We have to bring religion back. We have to bring it back much stronger. It’s one of the biggest problems that we’ve had over the last fairly long period of time. We have to bring it back.

Thomas Jefferson himself once attended Sunday services held in the old House Chamber on the very ground where I stand today, so there could be nothing more beautiful than for us to gather in this majistic place — it is majestic — and reaffirm that America is and will always be “one nation under God.”

At every stage of the American story, our country has drawn hope and courage and inspiration from our trust in the Almighty. Deep in the soul of every patriot is the knowledge that God has a special plan and a glorious mission for America. And that plan is going to happen. It’s going to happen. I hope it happens sooner rather than later. It’s going to happen.

Adults familiar with the way these early forays into the dank underbelly of longtime bureaucratic Washington have a more cynical suspicion than Elon hunting down disgruntled Tesla mechs.

And it has to do with the last sentence in the quote I used above:

The Labor Department houses an enormous amount of confidential data, and includes the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which produces important economic data, including inflation readings and market-critical employment statistics

What if - what IF - the Wonder Boys get in there and find out the past four years of #Bidenomincs have been a manipulated fantasy?

A badly managed fraud?

A theater piece for the gullible who didn't pay attention to the numerous, massive, downward revisions in data quietly done months after publication. //

Mike Derscher @MDerscher
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I’m more interested to what the Doge guys find when they start looking at the BLS data. They’ll be able to figure out if it is accurate or if it has been managed.
5:35 AM · Feb 6, 2025 //

According to this fellow below, the entire DOGE department was set up very carefully to be within all the legal parameters from the beginning to prevent challenges based on its legality.

This is part of his thread explaining what the Trump team did and it is so interesting. They didn't create a new department out of whole cloth. They renamed an existing one that was already authorized within the scope of the president's authority to oversee (an executive branch department) and had all the funding, etc, in situ.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1887038847629877714.html.

The Trump team did their homework. I can't say that enough, and we're witnessing the fruits of it every single day - damn near something new every hour.

I expect that the Labor Department is going to be as big as a bag of different worms as USAID once this lawsuit gets tossed or negotiated.

I remember how we all kept getting told things were so wonderful if only our lying eyes would allow us to see it.

They all fell out of a coconut tree.

A somber and reflective President Trump, speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast at the Capitol on Thursday, talked about the attempt on his life in Butler, Pennsylvania, last July.

In a rare public moment of emotion, Trump explained that the incident affirmed his belief in God.

"Honestly, it's a mir (miracle) — It changed, it changed something in me," the president said in a hushed tone. "I feel even stronger."

"I believed in God, but I feel — I feel much more strongly about it. Something happened," he added as the crowd burst into applause

What we're actually seeing is a trend on this particular issue, and it's going in the direction of opposition. So, take a look here. Okay, transgendered female athletes, and amongst those Americans who oppose them in women's sports, back in 2021, it was 62%. A majority, but, you know, not anywhere close to a ginormous majority, right? A clear majority, but not a ginormous majority. But then again, you look here in 2025, you see it at 79%. So, it's not just that the majority of Americans are opposed to transgender female athletes in women's sports, it's that the opposition has become considerably larger in just the last four years. //

So transgender female athletes, again, opposing them in women's sports, you get 67% of Democrats, so two-thirds there. You get 64% of independents, you get about two-thirds there. And then look at this, near uniformity among Republicans, 94% of Republicans in opposition. You rarely get 67% of Democrats and 94% of Republicans to agree on anything, but they do on this particular issue.

“The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America,” reads the very first sentence of Article II of the Constitution. “A” is singular. There is a President of the United States. He has the executive power. The federal bureaucracy operates under the President. Congress has, in some cases, established executive departments that the President cannot get rid of due to their statutory origin. Congress has granted some executive powers that the President cannot get rid of due to their statutory origins. But everyone in the executive branch serves at the pleasure of the President and, with few limits, he gets to direct the executive branch. //

rump is, they claim, engaged in a coup against the American administrative state.

One can hardly launch a coup against oneself. The executive power is vested in a single President, not an administrative state. Mr. Trump is retrieving powers long ago distributed to unelected bureaucrats who have used that power to advance progressive goals even when progressives do not hold power. //

Contrary to some Trump supporters’ claims, USAID did not spend $50 million on condoms for Gaza. It was $45 million and included “sexual and other reproductive health care” for Gaza, not just condoms. There was, separately, $10 million for condoms in the Gaza Province of Mozambique, in Africa. USAID also spent $2 million on healthcare for transgender youth in Guatemala; $45 million for DEI scholarships in Burma; $520 million for leftwing ESG investments in Africa; and $45 million to promote social justice and democracy based on the theories of an Italian Marxist professor. The money flows through and subsidizes various leftwing NGOs. Virtually one hundred percent of USAID’s top outside contractors, recipients of billions of dollars, donate to the Democratic Party. Tim Meisburger, a former USAID employee, discovered that “Of the top 17 grantees and partners of USAID’s Office of Democracy, Human Rights and Governance, 14 saw 100 percent of their political donations during the 2019–2020 election cycle directed to Democratic Party causes with only one (the International Republican Institute) under 90 percent.”

Therein lies the reason Republicans now wish to wind down USAID and Democrats wish to preserve it. The organization is not just a clearing house for aid from the United States to the developing world but both a boundary-breaking vanguard of progressive funding abroad and a pass-through source of Democratic Party donations domestically.

The State Department can run PEPFAR and other programs. USAID is not a necessary entity.

Kennedy's Executive Order 10973 named the USAID. But read the first line carefully.

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (75 Stat. 424) and section 301 of title 3 of the United States Code, and as President of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows:

This corresponds to a Congressional directive, the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. That law required Kennedy to create a foreign aid organization to replace the hodgepodge then in existence. The law lists a wide range of international aid activities required by Congress and directs the president to put those functions under a single person.

The President may exercise any functions conferred upon him by this Act through such agency or officer of the United States Government as he shall direct. Tne head of any such agency or such officer may from time to time promulgate such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out such functions, and may delegate authority to perform any such functions, including, if he shall so specify, the authority successively to redelegate any of such functions to any of his subordinates. //

Such designation and authorization shall be in writing, shall be published in the Federal Register, shall be subject to such terms, conditions, and limitations as the President may deem advisable, and shall be revocable at any time by the President in whole or in part. //

From the beginning, the USAID administrator has required Senate approval and has had a budget.

Because Congress created the agency, President Trump will either gut it and leave the remnant alive or set off a direct conflict with Congress, which he may or may not want.

"I’ve left instructions," Trump said. "If they do it, they get obliterated. There won’t be anything left. And they shouldn’t be able to do it."

The comments came as the president signed an executive order restoring a “maximum pressure” campaign against Tehran, something he indicated he was "unhappy" to do because it was really tough on Iran but necessary since he believes they are "close" to building a nuclear weapon. //

President Trump's threat to obliterate Iran if they dare carry out threats on his life is reminiscent of a similar warning he issued to Taliban leader Abdul Ghani Baradar.

Baradar, now Afghanistan's acting first deputy prime minister, was involved in negotiations for the United States withdrawal with Trump during his first term. And he received a hell of a threat from the then-president, reminding him not to harm a single American.

“Under my conversations with Abdul, who’s the leader of the Taliban, for 18 months, we didn’t lose one soldier,” Trump bragged in an interview with Sean Hannity, adding that he told Baradar he’d “obliterate” him if he failed to follow orders in their negotiations to withdraw.

To drive home the point, Trump sent him a lovely picture.

"I sent him a picture of his house,” he revealed. “He said, ‘But why, but why do you send me a picture of my house?’ I said, ‘You have to figure that one out.'”

The White House’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has finally gained access to the U.S. government’s payment system after a career bureaucrat had blocked them out. In an executive order creating DOGE, President Donald Trump ordered all agencies to provide the small but energetic team, headed by Elon Musk, with “full and prompt access to all unclassified agency records, software systems, and IT systems,” for the purpose of identifying and exposing areas of government waste, which can later be cut.

A single payment system within the U.S. Treasury Department is effectively the spigot for every dollar Uncle Sam spends, and for decades access to it has remained closely held among career officials in the U.S. Treasury Department’s Bureau of Fiscal Service. Since the election, agents of DOGE have requested access to this system, and they renewed their requests after Trump’s executive order made their department official.

Yet through the first week of the Trump administration, Acting Treasury Secretary David Lebryk denied DOGE access to the payment system. Last Monday, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Trump’s nominee, received Senate confirmation, and Trump administration officials placed Lebryk on administrative leave.

On Friday, Lebryk announced his retirement in a letter to Treasury employees — rather a high-flying move for a civil servant. The letter addressed the Fiscal Service without addressing the controversy directly. “The Fiscal Service performs some of the most vital functions in government,” he said. “Our work may be unknown to most of the public, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t exceptionally important.”

This could simply be encouraging comments, or it could be a subtle call to further resistance against impending changes by the Trump administration. The latter would be both inappropriate and unwelcome. //

“The fact that there are people in the government, paid by taxpayers, who think the President of the United States or his designee cannot see who is being paid by the federal government is a scandal of the highest order,” Kilgannon added. “Expect resignations and firings until this situation is corrected. We have a right and a duty to know where federal dollars are flowing.”

Meanwhile, the mainstream media is not enamored by the thought of public accountability for public spending; their reporting attempts to make the access by DOGE appear sinister. //

For now, the stated purpose of DOGE is to audit the government for waste, so that the elected agents of the people can actually control the government that governs in the people’s name. The team is too small and moving too fast to pull illegitimate shenanigans along the way. //

But even mechanical jobs need oversight because machines can malfunction, too. Musk reported on Saturday, “The @DOGE team discovered, among other things, that payment approval officers at Treasury were instructed always to approve payments, even to known fraudulent or terrorist groups. They literally never denied a payment in their entire career. Not even once.” //

“More will come out,” Gacek continued, “but two things are clear: Trump was watching how Elon Musk took over Twitter, and there will be no #resistance in the federal workforce.”

The US Digital Service was a part of the Executive Office of the President (EOP) established by Barack Obama. Trump then renamed that unit "DOGE." Most of the people in the EOP are "unelected" as are most of the people in the executive branch and the USAID officials. Chuck thinks they are somehow sacrosanct and immune from review.

Schumer is essentially saying the elected president doesn't have any right to review an agency within the executive branch. Indeed, it is Schumer who is arguing that an "unelected shadow government" of bureaucrats from USAID should not be questioned or reviewed by the president and the people in the EOP when USAID has control of $50 billion a year.

Plus, imagine Democrats having fits about things being run by a shadow government when Joe Biden was in cognitive decline for four years. They have some nerve. //

Elon Musk

@elonmusk
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Hysterical reactions like this is how you know that @DOGE is doing work that really matters.

This is the one shot the American people have to defeat BUREAUcracy, rule of the bureaucrats, and restore DEMOcracy, rule of the people. We’re never going to get another chance like this.

It’s now or never. Your support is crucial to the success of the revolution of the people.

Chuck Schumer @SenSchumer
An unelected shadow government is conducting a hostile takeover of the federal government.

DOGE is not a real government agency.
DOGE has no authority to make spending decisions.
DOGE has no authority to shut programs down or to ignore federal law.
DOGE’s conduct cannot be…
3:59 AM · Feb 4, 2025

"Now, many of my Democratic colleagues and some of the tofu-eating wokeratti at the USAID are screaming like they're part of a prison riot because they don't want us reviewing the spending. But that's all Mr. Musk is doing, and he's finding some pretty interesting stuff. To my friends who are upset, I would say, with respect, you know, call somebody who cares...They better get used to this. It's USAID today, it's going to be Department of Education tomorrow."

Kennedy said for four years under Joe Biden, that these people asked one simple question, "Who needs to pay more in taxes?" "Well, that's not the question that the Republicans and President Trump are going to ask," Kennedy explained. "Our question is, 'What the hell happened to the money?'"

Exactly, and that's why Democrats are flipping out — because, finally, all of this is being unraveled.

To say Democrats and their press allies were upset would be an understatement. Nothing seems to incense the left more than stopping the federal government from wasting taxpayer money overseas. Politicians who never said a word about the lack of funding for Hurricane Helene victims rushed to the podium to decry how "cruel" and "dangerous" it is to stop funding abortions in the Gaza Strip, among other insane wastes of money. //

LEAVITT: Here's the reason Elon Musk and others have been taking a look because if you look at the waste and abuse that has been run through USAID over the years, these are some of the insane priorities that that organization has been spending money on.

1.5 million dollars to advance DEI in Serbia's workplaces. $70,000 for a production of a DEI musical in Ireland. $47,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia. $32,000 for a transgender comic book in Peru. I don't know about you, but as an American taxpayer, I don't want my dollars going towards this crap, and I know the American people don't either, and that's exactly what Elon Musk has been tasked by President Trump to do. To get the fraud, waste, and abuse out of our federal government.

Now ask yourself, what possible benefit to America's standing could come from promoting DEI in Serbia or paying for a transgender comic book in Peru? And that's assuming the money even went to those things. To be frank, many of the grants given out by USAID sound so ridiculous that it would make more sense for them to just be money laundering operations. //

GBenton
an hour ago
I'm guessing none of those funded projects or causes got a fraction of the money or even existed. Probably all fronts for the Dems and Republicans who authorized the pay to play.

Understand what this means. Trump and Musk are cutting off the enemy's money supply and exposing the dirt behind how they funded Covids creation and release and Trump's lawfare, too.

wanna bet the money trail leads directly back to the scumbags crying into microphones?

They're all dirty corrupt maggots and they're all going down.

All they can think of to do is scream and cry and probably accuse Trump of persecuting his critics when they get indicted.

But he's got the receipts and they're screwed.

Wanna bet Cheney and McConnell and Ryan and Romney are all in on this?

of course they are. Its all about the grift with this treasonous traitors.

When Democrats and the media say they’re concerned about ‘independence’ in Trump’s appointees, they mean they want insubordination. //

Neither Democrats nor the Washington-based news media want Donald Trump’s presidency to succeed and one of the most effective ways to ensure it doesn’t is for people to sabotage his administration from within, as was often the case in his first term.

But they don’t explicitly acknowledge that reality. They instead cloak the subversion in nobility by referring to “independent” administration officials or cabinet appointees whom they urge to “exercise independence.”

On Friday’s episode of The New York Times’ “The Daily” podcast, reporter Jonathan Swan said Trump and his closest allies are “scouring the executive branch, looking for any pockets of independence and removing them.” Likewise, during the confirmation hearing for Trump’s pick for attorney general Pam Bondi, Democrat Sen. Chris Coons said, “One of the concerns I’ve raised … is safeguarding the Department of Justice’s independence…”. //

Every elected Republican and “career civil servant” (aka government bureaucrat) who did that in Trump 1.0 was turned into a media hero: Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, Alexander Vindman, Miles Taylor (who?!), Mark Milley, James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Christopher Wray, John Brennan and on and on and on.

Each one of those “independent” fellows proved their courage by undermining the person to whom power was bestowed by the voters. To be called “independent” by Democrats and the media is to do everything Democrats and the media want you to do. Amazing how that works.

The Department of Justice, FBI, and USAID are posing prominent test cases for how the Trump administration can reform a malignant federal bureaucracy. //

The Office of Personnel Management and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) are also posing prominent test cases for how the Trump administration can reform a federal bureaucracy that has, by design, resisted elected control since its inception. //

USAID is widely perceived as a CIA front organization. Former State Department official Mike Benz says USAID has funded international censorship and regime change operations. As demonstrated by journalists Diana West and M. Stanton Evans, the State Department has embedded Communist subversives from well before Whittaker Chambers all the way through secretaries Hillary Clinton and Antony Blinken, making it another top strategic threat to American self-governance. //

Last Monday, acting agency administrator Jason Gray placed 50-60 USAID employees on paid administrative leave while he investigates “information that they may have been conspiring to circumvent Trump’s executive orders requiring the halting of federal aid funds to overseas programs and all diversity, equity, and inclusion programs within the agency,” reported RealClearPolitics’ Susan Crabtree. //

Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee sent a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio Sunday complaining about the incident and insisting that “by law” Congress must determine whether the president can revise a president-created agency. //

If the executive cannot control his own personnel, agencies, and funding lawfully given to him by a duly elected Congress, elections mean nothing. If the executive is not actually an executor, then the entire bureaucracy is an autocratic, self-licking ice cream cone. It runs the country, not any elected official. And Congress is complicit, because it allows the distribution of opium funds to Afghanistan and queer “safe spaces” in Kenya without ever having to take a public vote on any of this garbage, so long as these taxpayer-provided slush funds slather their retirements and relatives with “nonprofit” and “contractor” lard.

on Sunday, he announced that he would be pulling any funding for South Africa because he believes the government is unlawfully confiscating land from its own citizens. He took to Truth Social to announce his intentions: //

Robby Starbuck @robbystarbuck
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President Trump just called out South Africa for their land confiscation and racism toward White South Africans.

"The United States won’t stand for it, we will act" and he’s cutting off ALL funding for them. //

Trump’s comments come less than two weeks after South African President Cyril Ramaphosa signed a new law making it easier for the state to expropriate land, subject to equitable compensation paid.

The African National Congress, the largest political party in South Africa, has pushed to make it easier for the state to take land in an effort to address racially skewed land-ownership patterns dating back to colonial and White-minority rule. //

epaddon
7 minutes ago
Post-apartheid, it's amusing how no one has ever given a damn about human rights and liberty in South Africa because any acknowledgment that the ANC has never been anything but a Marxist party more dedicated to ideas rooted in Lenin than Jefferson has always been a no-no.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Panamian President José Raúl Mulino on Sunday and laid down the law regarding the Panama Canal.

President Donald Trump has repeatedly expressed his intention to end Chinese influence over the key shipping channel, noting that American ships are being charged higher fees than other nations. A Hong Kong-based company currently holds the contract to control the canal, and there's little doubt that CCP politics are playing a role in how things are operated. China is always going to try to press any advantage it can, and this situation is no exception. //

One of the issues here is that the Panama Canal Treaty of 1977, which was created and signed by an incredibly naive (at best) President Jimmy Carter, calls for total neutrality regarding the canal. Handing China control of operations is not neutrality. It's a slap in the face to the United States and its generosity. China did not spend billions of dollars to build the canal, and because it is a geopolitical adversary, it is a national security risk for the communist country to have any involvement outside of paying fees to transit its ships. //

Alex Ward @alexbward
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Panama's President: Panama will not renew the memo 2017 with China on its Belt and Road Initiative. Panama will study the ability to end the agreement earlier than its end date in a year or two.

This comes after SecState Rubio's visit to Panama today.

The White House @WhiteHouse
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Kayla Hamilton, Jocelyn Nungaray, and Rachel Morin were murdered by illegal aliens.

Their courageous mothers had something to say to @SelenaGomez and those who oppose securing our borders. Watch ⬇️

6:14 PM · Jan 31, 2025

In fiscal year 2023, the United States disbursed $72 billion of assistance worldwide on everything from women's health in conflict zones to access to clean water, HIV/AIDS treatments, energy security and anti-corruption work. It provided 42% of all humanitarian aid tracked by the United Nations in 2024. //

NavyVet Largo Patriot
11 hours ago
We should amend the Constitution, if we can't get legislation, that prevents any and all aid, grant, or other funding when the government has a deficit.

If we can't afford to give money away - i.e. government has to borrow money to meet its obligations - then it should be expressly illegal, and, any elected official proposing it should be immediately removed from office and barred from running in the future. //

doctor goodheart Weminuche45
4 hours ago
In my personal experience (Russia 1990's), it's a transfer of wealth from taxpayers to Beltway bandits, with a tiny percent of funds actually hitting the ground in foreign countries.

Per William Easterly's books (e.g. The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good), foreign aid has repeatedly been shown to do more damage than good. It creates a large pool of money and therefore power to one tribe vs. another tribe; substitutes US-made food supplies for local growers, thereby perpetuating poverty--and so on and so forth as President Reagan would have said.
Anyway what to the leftists care? They used to be concerned about world poverty. Now they want to worsen it to depopulate the world, or at least keep most of the world unable to have cheap energy, the source of prosperity and health.

Richard Grenell @Rechargeable
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It It is not lost on me that most of the DC media failed to tell the truth about their partnership with the Biden Regime. Why else would they not criticize the failure of the Biden Administration to even visit Americans in prison in Venezuela?

The diplomatic standard is a wellness check, at least. These 6 Americans had ZERO help from Joe Biden, Anthony Blinken or Jake Sullivan.

Zero.

Donald Trump freed them on Day 11.
1:47 PM · Feb 1, 2025. //

Richard Grenell @RichardGrenell
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We can now announce more great news from our Venezuela diplomatic mission yesterday:

Venezuela has agreed to take back all the illegal immigrants in the U.S. from Venezuela - and pay for it! Thanks to @realDonaldTrump!
1:13 PM · Feb 1, 2025. //

A former Biden official, who served under both Obama and Biden in the State Department and the Department of Defense, said it was "inconceivable" that the Trump team managed to pull this off.

Richard Grenell @RichardGrenell
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Of course it’s inconceivable for someone from the Biden team…

They made chaos around the world because they didn’t show up or lead. There isn’t a region of the world that was safer after 4 years of Joe Biden’s Administration.

Brian P. McKeon @bpmckeon64
Replying to @MarcACaputo
It's inconceivable that Maduro didn't give something for the hostages and for agreeing to take deportees. A visit by Grenell wouldn't be enough.
4:46 PM · Feb 1, 2025

epaddon
2 hours ago
"Incapable of human feeling." Says the race hustler who was incapable of human feeling for what he did to Stephen Pagones when he defamed him with lies in the Tawana Brawley hoax. That this disgusting POS has never been out of the public eye since then is of itself an example of DEI with its racist black privilege that made possible BLM rioters and looters never having to be accountable for any of their crimes.

Lance Parkertip
2 hours ago
Al Sharpton, the man who incited violence against Jews over a traffic accident? The man who is as racist as the Grand Dragon of the KKK? The fake reverend who hasn't paid taxes in years? The fake Christian who is racist against his fellow man? He has brass ones to be looking down his pointy nose at others.