No. Your claim is the elimination of DOE will hit differently, and is “not going to play out like these ghouls think it will.” It will, and they don’t care.
We’ll see, unfortunately.
I posted about a dozen other wastes of taxpayer money. The percentage is irrelevant.
I agree its very small, but if true, it is an indication that some people at USAID are not being great stewards of tax-payer money. Its not nearly enough for me to want to end the program but its enough for me to want an investigation and if its true, hold people accountable for approving these programs.
Perhaps you can elaborate on (1) what the problem would be if the description of those programs is true (even though it's highly likely that the description is not entirely true), and (2) what you mean by "hold people accountable" in this context?
It will be hard to investigate now that orangeturd has eliminated all Inspector Generals
I bet I can find 5-10 ridiculous uses of taxpayer funds in the military - does that mean we should dismantle it?
We ridiculously spent money educating some of our MAGA mooks on this board and that has had a very low return. Negative, even.
First of all, you don't get to decide what is and isn't a "waste" of taxpayer money. And I'm confident you are not informed enough about this subject to make that determination.
1. I don't feel like they are the best use of our foreign aid tax dollars compared to feeding starving people, offering medical care, etc. 2. Censure them or fire them or vote in different politicians.
Not in my opinion. And I don't think those programs are enough to dismantle USAID, like I mentioned in the post you quoted.
I'm all for finding waste everywhere. The problem is, the go-along-to-get-along Congress doesn't care about waste, nor have they, to any meaningful degree, for a long time.
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I know. I thought that was a mistake. Trump could have reprioritized those folks and still gotten his headlines and we would have kept experienced investigators.
This is going to surprise you, I'm sure, but it does not seem as though you understand what the Inspectors General do.
Incorrect. This is the narrative they are going to see:
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Let me be clear, I have no problem if Trump wants to advocate and push Congress to change USAID's funding priorities to stop funding things that it calls "DEI" (even though their description of that is hilariously broad). The problem is in (1) the President taking power over funding that is not his to take, and (2) trying to demonize and destroy USAID in its entirety on the basis of spurious claims that it is a criminal organization that is engaged in fraud and criminal activity. When the only "evidence" is a small minority of small grants that were used for things the Trump administration is now crusading against.
Congress has to delegate some level of authority to make particular expenditures in service of congressional appropriations. Congress can't sit around all day deciding what brand of hammers to use on construction projects, what kind of coffee to put in the break room, and where every single grant dollar is going to go. The people to whom that authority is delegated shouldn't be second-guessed by any random American citizen who thinks some bucket of money should have been spent differently. Because you can't get 10 people to agree on how every dollar in the federal government is spent, much less the whole budget. That's why this sort of line-item exploration of every single grant dollar ever sent out is just such a spectacular waste of time - and such an obvious bad-faith exercise from Musk and the Trump admin, who have no desire to actually reduce fraud and waste but instead are looking for any pretext they can find to unconstitutionally arrogate to themselves the sole power to make decisions on expenditures.