Peloni: It should be recalled, as explained by Mike Benz, USAID is nothing more than local and regional capacity building across the whole world of assets that can be used by either the Pentagon, the State Dept or the CIA for their own activities. Hence, while it is good to see that the USAID program is placed under the watchful auspices of the US State Dept, it should be recalled that the ranks of the US State Dept oversaw partial funding of some of the alarming anti-Bibi protests on the streets of Jerusalem during the attempt to pursue Judicial Reform in Israel in early 2023. So, as Greenfield describes it, rolling the USAID under the control of the State Dept is only a good first step, and the second and third steps will require significant reform from within the US State Dept, something which is not entirely likely under Marco Rubio – recall the section relating to Rubio in Part II of Nelson’s important review of Trump’s nominees:
MR. PRESIDENT, WHO ON EARTH IS VETTING YOUR MAGA APPOINTEES? PART TWO
It’s time to get our foreign aid under control.
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USAID has been a major problem for a long time, but, under the Biden administration, it turned into a rogue agency that actively resisted the efforts of the Afghan watchdog to get information about its activities and that has directed billions of aid to terror states in ways that are completely unaccountable by moving the money through the UN and third party NGOs while making it impossible to track what they were doing with it.
The current move by the Trump administration to put the rogue agency move firmly under the control of the State Department is a welcome first step, but frankly USAID was dubiously conceived and much of its operations are aimed at undermining U.S. foreign policy or warping it into funding our enemies.
The Trump administration and a Republican Congress would do well to fully consolidate all ‘humanitarian’ aid under a single arm of the government (currently it goes through too many pathways) and significantly slash that aid unless it’s clearly and directly in the interests of our foreign policy. Aid to enemy nations, whether or not we technically view them as partners or allies, like Pakistan or Turkey, should be zeroed out entirely.
And no aid should be directed to any areas under the control of terrorist groups. That includes Yemen, Syria, Gaza, and Afghanistan. America should not be in the business of funding Islamic terrorism.
So, under the “pro-Israel” O’Biden/Harris regime, USAId gave 600 million dollars in “humanitarian aid” to “fakestine” from 2021-2023 and 2.1 BILLION after October 7? They incentivized murdering Jews. With “friends” like these…
And Um, Musk who wants to abolish it after saying that every member of Hamas should be captured or killed is supposed to be a Nazi because he made the same frantic gesture I make when hailing a bus? In NYC, they don’t stop if they don’t think someone is waiting to get on and bus stop benches are the only place to sit outside in many places.
And this from people who object to deporting foreign guests who disrupted College Campuses among other places, harmed Jews and protested for Hamas?
I forget which judge famously said, “The Constitution is not a suicide pact.”
“The current move by the Trump administration to put the rogue agency move firmly under the control of the State Department”
The State Department? Oh, please.
Looks like a common sense start.
Defunding UNWRA will also help as by its very existence it upholds the idea that the Arabs are going somewhere instead of settling down.
Look at how to get rid of the two UN Palestine Committees about Palestine rights and the behaviour of Israel in “Palestine” . Their budgets are known so subtract from US membership an equivalent sum till these two are closed down.