General Discussion

...what we won't have is Trump, making unilateral decisions about spending (or not spending).

And,don't forget that it only takes THREE republicans in the house to help a unanimous Dem minority block things like SS and Medicaid cuts.

And also realize that USAID iswn't just a beneficient enterprise that Congress has supported for decades and decades, since Kennedy.

It's about BUSINESS interests which are not divorced from the republicans in the majority who are essentially employees of the corporations and money men who put them there.

Those are THEIR interests, as well, with at least 47 states directly involved in making the product of their constituents available to USAID - and that's not a donation, it's real dollars that these states will lose, that these politicians will hear about.

Now, USAID spending comprises just 0.3 percent of total federal spending. POINT THREE PERCENT.

In fiscal year 2020, USAID bought $2.1 billion of food aid from American farmers.


TWO POINT ONE BILLION! IN ONE YEAR!