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On 20 May 2025, Mitchell Holman posted some
news:XnsB2E5D2F3486D4629555@185.151.15.190:
> ralph wrote in
> news:100j2kt$32n4q$6@news.tcpreset.net:
>
>> On 5/18/2025 6:32 AM, Mitchell Holman wrote:
>>> howie ruffe wrote in
>>> news:100bl00$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.
>
>
> like the salaries of fired park
> rangers, fired FAA staff, fired VA
> clerks, fired nuclear safety workers?
>
>
>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
> Federal deficit, in trillions:
That was expectedly foolish, Holman.
Trump got sandbagged with the fiscal fallout from COVID, the Chinese
viral weapon eventually used by the Democrats to steal an election.
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