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2025-02-07 Government Corruption
USAID Staff Slashed to 294 Amid Abolishment Talks - including Samantha Power fired
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The U.S. government is executing a substantial reduction of USAID's workforce, from approximately 14,000 to just 294 staff members, as confirmed by various news sources. This decision has coincided with legislative moves to potentially dissolve the agency entirely, as Rep. Greg Steube introduced a bill to abolish USAID and redirect its functions to the U.S. Department of State. Additionally, the pause in USAID funding has impacted the BBC's international charity arm, BBC Media Action, which expressed concerns over its operational capabilities due to an 8% funding cut.




- $70,000 for DEI musical in Ireland
- $2.5 million for electric vehicles in Vietnam
- $47,000 for trans opera in Colombia
- $32,000 trans comic book in Peru
- $2 million for sex changes in Guatemala
- $6 million for tourism in Egypt

Courtesy of NoMoreBS: CTH: Samantha Power and USAID defense on Colbert-note the Hungary inference

Courtesy of badanov:

Says Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
That's all you need to know about "free and independent journalism in Ukraine."

In fact, almost any Ukrainian "journalist" is a character receiving a salary from the US through a shell from USAID and in fact are budget employees.

American budget employees who depend on money coming/going to USAID from the American budget through the State Department.

Courtesy of 3dc:
A X feed worth following on USAID being worse than the CIA
This noticed by a decades-ago mod but still observing. Follow the tweet poster and read the comments on "X"



USAID and Politico spent $100 Million trying to kill PIZZA!
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Posted by Fred 2025-02-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11151 views ]  Top

#1 Samantha Power = Willem Dafoe hit by an Ugly Stick
Posted by Frank G 2025-02-07 00:15||   2025-02-07 00:15|| Front Page Top

#2 People that work for USAID wanted to make the World a better place…

Among other things, a Judenfrei ME.
Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-02-07 01:42||   2025-02-07 01:42|| Front Page Top

#3 Samantha Power has been FIRED.

Such a good picture I had to use it again.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-02-07 02:55||   2025-02-07 02:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Trump latest: US president sued over 'outrageous' gutting of aid agency fighting famine and malaria
Posted by Skidmark 2025-02-07 02:59||   2025-02-07 02:59|| Front Page Top

#5 The $40 billion a year is only a small fraction of the US budget.

The importance lies in the tremendous damage that has been inflicted on Western Civilization in general by these $40 billion a year.

The peculiar thing about this 'deep state' is not corruption and grifting but the apparent fanatical commitment of that entity to the ultimate destruction the very institutions that it parasitizes.

People like Power are not just more or less self-interested careerists but self destructive true believers.

That's a scary prospect.
Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2025-02-07 08:35||   2025-02-07 08:35|| Front Page Top

#6 I am hoping that the breakup of this "hive of villainy" is transformative to our world. Less chaos and more growth. All of the events that didn't quite make sense could be explained by these maggots disrupting our society.
Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2025-02-07 08:38||   2025-02-07 08:38|| Front Page Top

#7 The common thread in the USAID grants seems to be "we'll pay you to lie for us".
Personally, I think they should hung from lamposts and not fired, but that's just me.
Posted by ed in texas 2025-02-07 09:12||   2025-02-07 09:12|| Front Page Top

#8 Heck of a good start
Posted by DarthVader 2025-02-07 09:44||   2025-02-07 09:44|| Front Page Top

#9 While people struggle with their incomes just to exist and you had survivors living in tents, these people were playing Oprah, a billion for you, a billion for you. They keep pushing this crap, the guillotines will be coming out.
Posted by Procopius2k 2025-02-07 09:57||   2025-02-07 09:57|| Front Page Top

#10 ahem
Posted by Mercutio 2025-02-07 11:54||   2025-02-07 11:54|| Front Page Top

#11 She claims, “People that work for USAID wanted to make the World a better place…”

The problem is that you're idea of a better place is out of sync with the American people who just elected Trump to can your ass. Don't give us any crap about suddenly not know how you're gonna pay rent either. Having worked in the private sector, I've been there and done that and I don't see why federal employees should never have to worry about it like I have. If the taxpayers don't want to pay your bills anymore, you might have to find another job where actual work is involved. Try the Waffle House.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2025-02-07 12:18||   2025-02-07 12:18|| Front Page Top

#12 This post.
I had to ask the guy next to me to pinch me in case I was dreaming.
Posted by swksvolFF 2025-02-07 12:31||   2025-02-07 12:31|| Front Page Top

#13 USAID was funding over 6,200 journalists across 707 media outlets and 279 "media" NGOs, including nine out of ten media outlets in Ukraine.

Some years ago I posted a question on Rantburg. I asked what power could make all these birds sing the same song, word for word and note for note in perfect harmony every day. Now we know.

I don't know if it was ever really true or just an ideal but the ideal was that big cities would all have multiple media outlets and each outlet would compete every day for the biggest "scoop". Reporters would work their asses off every day trying to find some little snippet of information that the others didn't have yet. That way, they could keep each other and the politicians honest. If there ever really was such a time, we need to get back to it. Putting a tight leash USAID seems to be a good step in the right direction.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2025-02-07 12:47||   2025-02-07 12:47|| Front Page Top

#14 Me on a Friday Night, watching USAID trying to dance.

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-02-07 20:45||   2025-02-07 20:45|| Front Page Top

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