Americans, do you support Trump cutting 90% of USAID foreign aid contracts?

[Cubus]

Source: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/26/trump-administration-says-its-cutting-90-of-usaid-foreign-aid-contracts-00206377

[Syntosi]

USAID is Americas soft power program which is supposed to manipulate the world into the most beneficial configuration for USA AKA maintain America as the only super power. Cutting 90% of that is like calling into the international power fight and say that you rather stay home today and to go on shape the world without you. It is a suicide on a national level for a super power to do.

[OlderAndWiser]

If I reviewed the cuts, program-by-program, there might be some with which I disagree, but I don't see how most of the programs benefit US taxpayers.

[OlderAndWiser]

Thanks for MHO!

[Cubus]

You're welcome

[WhiteSteve]

I’ll go ahead just refer you all to what @Syntosi said.

If you support this, you’re missing a much bigger picture. China can slide right into our vacancies and start gathering goodwill with these nations, and then they can get all the ores and minerals and whatever natural resources the superpowers are all angling for. This is spending money to make money, and secure our spot in the world order.

They’re trying to get you in a tizzy over culture war bullshit, and general xenophobia and probably a liI’ good old fashioned racism in in a lot of cases. You’re not worried about what we gave money to Mozambique for as much as you’re mad that it’s in Africa and you don’t really give a shit about Africans, unless they’re white emerald mine nepo-babies who put on REALLY expensive “fireworks displays” in the sky 💥💥🚀💥💥 Whoops, lmao.

Trump told you in what basically amounted to a State Of The Union address that they were dropping $8M on transgender mice, follows with “it’s true, it’s true”, to uproarious laughter from the Republican side of the room, they even have it on the White House website, blaming it on Joe Biden, lmfao (so much mental real estate ownership😂), and the next day all the right wingers are clamoring about it…. only for us all to find out it it was transGENIC mice, not transGENDER, you absolute fucking MUPPETS, and those are instrumental in science in engineering medicines and studying cures for disease. Jesus fucking CHRIST…. be more fucking stupid, you can’t. And if you correct them, “tHiS iS wHy I vOtEd FoR tRuMp, YoU’rE sO cOnDeScEnDiNg!!!😭😭😭” I mean, holy fuck…. how do you even talk with these people?

Furthermore, even if you wanted to be shortsighted about it and only think on the elementary school level of “but muh tax dollars”….. that first week when we were getting hit with all of the DOGE alleged findings and they were like “Oh my god, $30,000 for a transgender opera in Bolivia!” or whatever it was, I had so much fun taking all of those numbers, as dishonest as they probably were, and dividing them by the nearly 160 MILLION federal income tax payers in this country, and this particular one broke down to like a third of a cent per person, and even the bigger numbers all totaled up, the highest amount I got was like $4.38 per person.

This reminds me of when I was getting mail about being in a class action lawsuit against Bank Of America for funny businesses with delaying account credits so you’d overdraft and they’d charge you like $35, which was a frequent and serious problem when I was in my 20s and didn’t have two nickels to rub together. Probably lost thousands over the years, sometimes my own irresponsibility for sure, but now knowing what they were up to, a lot of the instances I’m thinking were shady. Anyway, the lawsuit reached a settlement, and I was awaiting a big payday. It was so small I didn’t even notice they hit my account with it. The settlement of hundreds of millions of dollars, my share was like 27 bucks, lmfao. I feel Iike that’s what’s happening with Americans, they think this is going to end up with a fat check in the mail, no more income taxes, etc…. even if you DID see that, it’d be a bribe you don’t know you’re taking in exchange for your professional and economic “soul.”

Trump has us on the way to recession already (that was quick), and guess who does GREAT in a recession? I’ll answer for you: WEALTHY PEOPLE! When the bank forecloses on your house, it will be bought at like half price by some real estate conglomerate to rent or sell to the next sap just like you, back at full price. If you understand anything about billionaires, understand this: they don’t need any more members at the Billionaire Boys Club, they’re full. None of this is going to result in average Americans being economically upwardly mobile. If that’s what you voted for…. I’m sorry to tell you that you seriously fucked up.

I agree that there’s probably wasteful spending in some areas overall that could be reviewed and trimmed. But this idea of going in and just throwing everything out is absolutely crazy. First off, stop looking at it through the lens of “what’s in it for me?” When did Americans become such fucking animals? But secondly, know that you don’t know shit about any of this stuff. Most of us don’t.

Look…. you're never going to know EVERYTHING the government does, just lay back and accept that. Not here, not anywhere else. In some cases, we CAN’T know, because then EVERYONE knows, and that’s not good for those particular interests.

And none this is done in secret, it’s just done in obscurity, and it’s obscure because it bores most of us and we’d rather watch Netflix or play video games than go researching Congressional spending bills and weed through them ourselves. And then if you did that, you’d need to further research the recipients of the money, and yadda yadda yadda, you’re not gonna do all that. But don’t act like it was hidden, you just didn’t have the intellectual endurance to do your end of it, don’t blame DC for that, no one tricked you. You don’t know everything going on because you don’t care THAT much.

The bottom line is that we’re in a very weird time period when, more than ever before (and it wasn’t great before, but this is egregious), you CANNOT take this administration on its good word, and you should maybe in fact do the opposite. Like “if they’re talking, they’re lying” kind of level.

The more I observe this phenomenon, I realize so much of it comes down to “Trump (or someone in his orbit) said it, so it must be true”, and that’s maybe the most misguided logic I could ever imagine. They had people who literally counted his lies the last time in office, they don’t do that for any other politicians, who are often not too trustworthy themselves, but again, this is a ridiculous degree of dishonesty, “like we’ve never seen before”, as Donny Smallhands says. This dude is a FIREHOSE of lies. And what’s most crazy is that it’s so fucking obvious, yet tens of millions of people have fallen for it, and like a third of them are full-on cult members.

Absolute insanity, I’ve never seen anything this crazy in 46 years of being alive.

[alice55]

I feel like Trump is cutting everything cause he want to steal all the money and put it in his pockets...

[Jersey2]

Yes, I do. And so should poor Americans as all that money could go to inner city schools and more. That is, once a Doge like program cleans up the cities wast, corruption and fraud.

[xcheerleader_jessx]

I'm all for cutting foreign aid if it won't benefit the USA under any presidency

[DrPepper12]

Item 540,754,892 in evidence of his foolishness. Soft power pays more dividends than military spending

[Dargil]

I support any cut that benefits the American people and our economy.

[exitseven]

I wish it was 100% and the agency was closed.

[Joshydavid25]

Absolutely, cut all the fluff out..

[masterSir]

hell yes. its a big scam.

[Paige90]

Yes I do!!

[dustybiker2]

No. I do not.

[Agape93]

Still ducking me eh?

[IamRight]

Yes.

[Alex-Snow]

Not at all

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

Yes.

[Pterodon]

Yes I do

[CandyRattt]

Absolutely.