Summary
The Trump administration has upended USAID by abruptly freezing foreign aid spending and placing senior career officials on administrative leave, halting crucial disbursements.
The administration has implemented a 90-day freeze affecting life-saving programs such as PEPFAR and malaria initiatives, severely disrupting vital operations and international health efforts.
The administration’s impoundment strategy, widely rejected by courts, seeks to reclassify civil servants and contractors, undermining accountability and jeopardizing essential aid operations.
Critics warn that these moves create a climate of intimidation, endangering effective foreign aid delivery and weakening critical diplomatic and humanitarian efforts.
We’re so close to using USDA money to prop up weapons manufacturing, effectively beating our plowshares into swords. I can almost taste the irony, which is good because there will be little left to eat if we let it get that far.
Billions of people earned a bunch of money, trillions of dollars, and part of our system is that we all give it to a big organization which is tasked with doing stuff that we all agree is necessary to spend it on. The reality is a little different from the theory in some very important ways, but that’s not a million miles away from what happens in reality.
And now, Trump is saying “What the fuck are you even talking about, that trillions of dollars is MINE, and mine alone.”
What lawsuits are being brought over this? The president does not have the authority to just not spend money Congress has appropriated.
Without enforcement of law, no law throttles him. He’s a dictator now, so rules are our the window.
Force is the only thing he’ll listen to. Laws aren’t going to and haven’t done shit to stop him.
You need to try though. Giving up is not an option.
What assholes are downvoting a “don’t give up” comment? Seriously?
How do you figure? Congress has budgeted, that doesn’t mean it has to be spent as far as I know.
It’s called “Impoundment” and it was made illegal when Nixon abused it via the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974.
The president is supposed to be the guy who executes the will of the people, as laid out by Congress. You wouldn’t know it from our news and stuff but Congress is the senior branch of government.
