Do you know anyone in Congress we could talk to about this?!?!

04.02.2025 18:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Has congress passed a law superseding or eliminating the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961?

Has the Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional?

Then why are journalists reporting that Trump and Musk are "shutting down" USAID. They are not authorized to do so.

03.02.2025 12:34 — 👍 6314    🔁 1909    💬 163    📌 109

Elon Musk's mother moved to South Africa in the year Apartheid was created, and she and Elon left the year it ended. The last Apartheid Prime Minister, a man who refused to testify at the Truth and Reconciliation Committee, was a family friend who stayed at their home. This is not a crazy theory.

03.02.2025 14:55 — 👍 18958    🔁 6698    💬 145    📌 167

One of my party facts is that according to polls, Americans believe foreign aid is about 25% of the federal budget and on average that it *should* be about 10%.

The actual number is less than 1%.

Foreign aid has long been a boogey man of the right, so it's not surprising they're vilifying it now.

02.02.2025 22:32 — 👍 17094    🔁 4748    💬 396    📌 201