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by throwarayes 505 days ago
I disagree with the Coup framing.

It’s not clear that reorganizing US foreign aid agencies is in violation of statute. As I understand it statute allocate $X to US foreign aid. And instructs the State dept to organize this aid.

The EO to pause all payments was challenged in court and halted

A lot of bad crap has happened, and I disagree with what DOGE is doing, but it’s not a coup.
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slowmovintarget 504 days ago
USAID is not a US foreign aid agency. It is a US propaganda and soft power agency, opposite China's Belt & Road initiative. President Trump has named Marco Rubio as temporary head (so Secretary Rubio has two roles).

The President does have the authority to stop the agency's actions, and make it answer to the Secretary of State. Dissolving it altogether or making it part of the State Department likely requires Congressional approval.

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Blackstrat 504 days ago
Exactly. Too many here oppose eliminating the militant, left wing, anti-Americanism from the US government. Restoring it to a more rational and Constitutionally based framework is what's happening. It's not a coup. The government wastes and launders incredible sums of OUR money. Example, some $100B of the aid to the Ukraine is missing, if you believe Zelensky. In all likelihood, Zelendsky pocketed some of it and routed other to Biden and other affiliated NGO and back into the hands of the globalist faction. Resisting illegal immigration is likewise not a coup. It's the restoration of sovereignty and the rule of law. Nor is eliminating DEI/woke propaganda a coup. It is a restoration of common sense and science. Trump isn't the problem. The problem is all of the folks out here that are willing to surrender their lives to government and left wing utopian fantasies. They don't exist.
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mikrotikker 503 days ago
You need to read more instead of repeating Russian propaganda. The $100bn didn't "go missing". Zelensky is never seeing that money because it is not for him, it is for replenishing the US military stocks given to Ukraine with newer equipment.

https://www.ukraineoversight.gov/Funding/

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