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From: r62n@nynex.zib
On 5/18/2025 6:32 AM, Mitchell Holman wrote:
> howie ruffe wrote in
> news:100bl00$ki5$5@toxic.dizum.net:
>
>> On 17 May 2025, Dick Polack
>> posted some news:20250517.124124.5038bc51@msgid.frell.theremailer.net:
>>
>>> In Rudy said:
>>>>
>>>> I note it's time for a refresher.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you, Chairman Mast. I appreciate your strong leadership of
>>>> this Committee, and I look forward to working alongside you to bring
>>>> needed reform to our diplomatic strategy. We certainly have a lot to
>>>> do, and this hearing is just the beginning. Accountability is
>>>> coming.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you also to our witnesses today. The corruption going on
>>>> behind USAID’s doors has been a wakeup call for all Americans.
>>>>
>>>> As Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, I spent the
>>>> last two years exposing the Biden administration’s sabotage of our
>>>> border and the policies that kept America safe. I saw firsthand
>>>> their willful refusal to protect this country. Under the guise of
>>>> “foreign aid,” USAID has been an unapologetic front for a
>>>> far-left agenda. It has become self-evident these weren’t a
>>>> handful of foolish policies but rather a coordinated strategy of
>>>> radical, idiotic, and often anti-American priorities.
>>>>
>>>> Idiotic, you say? Millions to teach Moroccans how to make pottery?
>>>> The Moroccans were making pottery before we were a country!
>>>>
>>>> This entire debate today and the crocodile tears from Democrats just
>>>> goes to show what is wrong with this town. Not a single Democrat I
>>>> have heard has expressed dismay over the many examples of crazy,
>>>> wasteful spending. I don’t understand the objection to a deep dive
>>>> in how we spend our money. But perhaps it’s the fact that over the
>>>> last several weeks, a massive surge has occurred in the search for a
>>>> criminal defense attorney. That probably says it all! It’s up five
>>>> times in this city, more than any other city in the nation. I would
>>>> like to remind this Committee that President Kennedy unilaterally
>>>> created USAID through an executive order in 1961. Yet when President
>>>> Trump orders a momentary pause after winning a mandate for reform,
>>>> Democrats cry “constitutional crisis.” This is after four years
>>>> of reckless spending and unrepentant lawlessness from the Biden
>>>> administration.
>>>>
>>>> I want the American people to understand how this works in
>>>> Washington: As long as you are spending other people’s money, no
>>>> one bats an eye, but the second you want to save taxpayers’
>>>> dollars, the swamp cries “wolf” or in this case “unprecedented
>>>> constitutional crisis.” This breathless, fake outrage from the
>>>> left is utterly insane—and you know what, the American people can
>>>> see right through it.
>>>>
>>>> The generosity of Americans and the blessing of giving aid to others
>>>> has always been one of our most valuable tools for diplomacy. The
>>>> American people have a proud history of championing aid to our
>>>> fellow man, but lawless bureaucrats have poisoned that good will.
>>>>
>>>> Many USAID programs are wasteful and actively sabotage our
>>>> diplomatic relationships by forcing woke ideology on our partners.
>>>> Just look at the PEPFAR program, a beacon of hope in the fight
>>>> against HIV/AIDS. Yet, the Biden administration even weaponized this
>>>> crucial program, jeopardizing lives and undermining our
>>>> relationships with African nations. Under Administrator Powers, our
>>>> message to Africa was as explicit as it was heinous: “Abort your
>>>> babies and violate your religious convictions or we won’t grant
>>>> life-saving aid.” Let me be crystal clear to those who have been
>>>> complicit in this betrayal: firing those involved is just a start.
>>>> We have a long way to go.
>>>>
>>>> And one last point; I want to correct the record on a couple of
>>>> things. First, Elon Musk and his team do not have access to personal
>>>> data. They don’t have access to your social security number. That
>>>> is a lie. However, Elon Musk does have a security clearance—a top
>>>> secret security clearance. He makes the rockets for NASA! But the
>>>> suggestion that he, somehow, can’t be trusted to dig into how
>>>> we’re spending our money is nothing but a smokescreen to hide the
>>>> corruption and the wasteful spending that has occurred there. And I
>>>> am personally offended at the left’s continued references to
>>>> nineteen and twenty-one-year-olds in there doing work. There are
>>>> nineteen-year-olds who have won the Medal of Honor defending this
>>>> country. Just because you’re nineteen, does not mean you’re some
>>>> child who can’t be trusted. It is offensive, and if you’re
>>>> nineteen-years-old out there and you’re serving this country, your
>>>> service matters and please keep serving. We thank you for that.
>>>>
>>>> https://markgreen.house.gov/2025/2/rep-green-takes-aim-at-democrats-l
>>>> i es-on-usaid-during-foreign-affairs-hearing
>>>
>>> Those involved in USAID should all be executed for theft.
>>
>> Somehow that just doesn't seem to be good enough. Misuse of public
>> funds is out of control.
>
> $3 million for a Trump superbowl party.
>
> $45 million for a Trump birthday parade.
>
> $16 million to ship 41 immigrants to Gitmo -
> and bring them back again.
>
> Misuse of public funds, indeed.
Chump change.
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently announced that the 2024
fiscal-year federal budget deficit — the amount the government spent
over and above what it received in total revenue — was $1.8 trillion.
That makes the Biden-Harris administration by far the biggest deficit
spenders in modern history.
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