USAID pause hurts American farmers

[Radiorum]

Just another example of how Trump and Musk don't give a sh*t about the average American

USAID oversees projects such as food aid, disaster relief and health programs in over 100 countries with a staff of more than 10,000 and a budget of around $40 billion. Billions of those dollars flowed back into the American economy until President Donald Trump ordered a 90-day freeze on foreign-aid spending last month.

Now U.S. businesses that sold goods and services to USAID are in limbo. That includes American farms, which supply about 41 percent of the food aid that the agency, working with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, sends around the world each year, according to a 2021 report by the Congressional Research Service. In 2020, the U.S. government bought $2.1 billion in food aid from American farmers.

Purchases and shipments of U.S. food aid worth over $340 million — including rice, wheat and soybeans — have been paused during Trump’s foreign-aid freeze, according to officials and an email obtained by The Post. That has left hundreds of tons of American-grown wheat stranded in Houston alone, Rep. Angie Craig of Minnesota, the highest-ranking Democrat on the House Agriculture Committee, said Tuesday.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/06/trump-usaid-money-american-farms/

[robosmith]

1 hour ago, Radiorum said:

Just another example of how Trump and Musk don't give a sh*t about the average American

USAID oversees projects such as food aid, disaster relief and health programs in over 100 countries with a staff of more than 10,000 and a budget of around $40 billion. Billions of those dollars flowed back into the American economy until President Donald Trump ordered a 90-day freeze on foreign-aid spending last month.

Now U.S. businesses that sold goods and services to USAID are in limbo. That includes American farms, which supply about 41 percent of the food aid that the agency, working with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, sends around the world each year, according to a 2021 report by the Congressional Research Service. In 2020, the U.S. government bought $2.1 billion in food aid from American farmers.

Purchases and shipments of U.S. food aid worth over $340 million — including rice, wheat and soybeans — have been paused during Trump’s foreign-aid freeze, according to officials and an email obtained by The Post. That has left hundreds of tons of American-grown wheat stranded in Houston alone, Rep. Angie Craig of Minnesota, the highest-ranking Democrat on the House Agriculture Committee, said Tuesday.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/06/trump-usaid-money-american-farms/

^This is what happens when IGNORAMUSES take a hatchet to budgets without understanding what they're doing.

Just like when they fired all the staff which handles US spy satellites and then had to scramble to hire the specialists back. DOGI: department of government INEFFICIENCY.

Same thing happened when Trump 1 had to spend $12B extra to rescue farmers who used to sell soybeans to China.

Edited February 17 by robosmith

[Radiorum]

In Trump's giddy reach to concentrate all power in the Executive branch, he has paid no attention to the effect of these massive cuts at home in his "slash-first, think-later" approach. And the worst part is, the damn Republicans do not speak up. 

What will it take for Republican legislators to speak up and say "Don't destroy my state's economy?"

 

[Legato]

1 hour ago, Radiorum said:

Just another example of how Trump and Musk don't give a sh*t about the average American

USAID oversees projects such as food aid, disaster relief and health programs in over 100 countries with a staff of more than 10,000 and a budget of around $40 billion. Billions of those dollars flowed back into the American economy until President Donald Trump ordered a 90-day freeze on foreign-aid spending last month.

Now U.S. businesses that sold goods and services to USAID are in limbo. That includes American farms, which supply about 41 percent of the food aid that the agency, working with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, sends around the world each year, according to a 2021 report by the Congressional Research Service. In 2020, the U.S. government bought $2.1 billion in food aid from American farmers.

Purchases and shipments of U.S. food aid worth over $340 million — including rice, wheat and soybeans — have been paused during Trump’s foreign-aid freeze, according to officials and an email obtained by The Post. That has left hundreds of tons of American-grown wheat stranded in Houston alone, Rep. Angie Craig of Minnesota, the highest-ranking Democrat on the House Agriculture Committee, said Tuesday.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/06/trump-usaid-money-american-farms/

USAID was established via executive order by President John F. Kennedy in 1961 with the purpose of "administering aid to foreign countries to promote social and economic development," in accordance with the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. USAID was not established to subsidize American agriculture. The Department of Agriculture already does so to the tune of tens of billions of dollars a year comprising direct payments administered by the Commodity Credit Corporation and by covering more than half of crop insurance premiums via the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation.

If USAID resumes alleviating global hunger after the 90-day pause, it should distribute nutritious food in the most efficient way possible—not in the way that provides the most rents for American farmers.

https://reason.com/2025/02/14/why-is-foreign-aid-going-to-american-farmers/

[ironstone]

Transgender comic books. DEI in Serbia. And on and on...

How does this sort of thing help American farmers?

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/70000-for-transgender-comic-in-peru-1-5-million-for-dei-in-serbia-trump-press-secretary-slams-usaid-amid-doge-scrutiny/articleshow/117907246.cms

[gatomontes99]

14 minutes ago, ironstone said:

Transgender comic books. DEI in Serbia. And on and on...

How does this sort of thing help American farmers?

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/70000-for-transgender-comic-in-peru-1-5-million-for-dei-in-serbia-trump-press-secretary-slams-usaid-amid-doge-scrutiny/articleshow/117907246.cms

It creates more demand for cauliflower pizza.

[Aristides]

16 minutes ago, ironstone said:

Transgender comic books. DEI in Serbia. And on and on...

How does this sort of thing help American farmers?

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/70000-for-transgender-comic-in-peru-1-5-million-for-dei-in-serbia-trump-press-secretary-slams-usaid-amid-doge-scrutiny/articleshow/117907246.cms

What do they do to harm US farmers? Screw your own farmers because you don't like comic books or DEI in Serbia. MAGA logic

Edited February 17 by Aristides

[gatomontes99]

1 minute ago, Aristides said:

What do they do to harm US farmers? Screw your own farmers because you don't like comic books or DEI in Serbia. MAGA logic

Because if guys are sucking dicks and pretending to be girls, cucumber sales drop. That is why.

[robosmith]

2 hours ago, ironstone said:

Transgender comic books. DEI in Serbia. And on and on...

How does this sort of thing help American farmers?

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/70000-for-transgender-comic-in-peru-1-5-million-for-dei-in-serbia-trump-press-secretary-slams-usaid-amid-doge-scrutiny/articleshow/117907246.cms

You're objecting to chicken feed to promote US human rights. 🤮

[Deluge]

13 hours ago, Radiorum said:

Just another example of how Trump and Musk don't give a sh*t about the average American

USAID oversees projects such as food aid, disaster relief and health programs in over 100 countries with a staff of more than 10,000 and a budget of around $40 billion. Billions of those dollars flowed back into the American economy until President Donald Trump ordered a 90-day freeze on foreign-aid spending last month.

Now U.S. businesses that sold goods and services to USAID are in limbo. That includes American farms, which supply about 41 percent of the food aid that the agency, working with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, sends around the world each year, according to a 2021 report by the Congressional Research Service. In 2020, the U.S. government bought $2.1 billion in food aid from American farmers.

Purchases and shipments of U.S. food aid worth over $340 million — including rice, wheat and soybeans — have been paused during Trump’s foreign-aid freeze, according to officials and an email obtained by The Post. That has left hundreds of tons of American-grown wheat stranded in Houston alone, Rep. Angie Craig of Minnesota, the highest-ranking Democrat on the House Agriculture Committee, said Tuesday.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/06/trump-usaid-money-american-farms/

They'll figure something out.

USAID has been infested with woke, and it's time clean that shit hole out. 

[Radiorum]

1 hour ago, Deluge said:

USAID has been infested with woke, and it's time clean that shit hole out. 

The people who told you that lied.

[Deluge]

12 minutes ago, Radiorum said:

The people who told you that lied.

Well don't just stand there like a stunted pervert; link your sources. 

[Radiorum]

4 minutes ago, Deluge said:

Well don't just stand there like a stunted pervert; link your sources. 

You're the one who made the claim. Link yours.

[Deluge]

Just now, Radiorum said:

You're the one who made the claim. Link yours.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/02/at-usaid-waste-and-abuse-runs-deep/

Your turn.  

[Radiorum]

3 minutes ago, Deluge said:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/02/at-usaid-waste-and-abuse-runs-deep/

Your turn.  

Lol, you quoted the liars!

[Deluge]

Just now, Radiorum said:

Lol, you quoted the liars!

I quoted the leaders. 

YOU quoted yourself, which is really stupid; even for a soy guzzling Harris supporter like you. 

[Radiorum]

1 minute ago, Deluge said:

I quoted the leaders.

They lie both about what they are doing and their intention. It's called the "DOGE hoax."

Elon Musk is a newbie to government, but I’ll pay him the compliment of assuming that he’s studied the federal ledger in enough detail already to have grasped the truth of Riedl’s points. If so, he must know that DOGE’s work is futile—as a fiscal project, except on a very modest scale. Trying to put a meaningful dent in overspending by gutting outfits like USAID is like trying to pay off one’s student loans by scaling back on lattes at Starbucks. The math won’t math.

But DOGE isn’t a fiscal project. It’s an ideological project. And from that standpoint, it’s been pretty successful.

 

[gatomontes99]

2 minutes ago, Radiorum said:

They lie both about what they are doing and their intention. It's called the "DOGE hoax."

Elon Musk is a newbie to government, but I’ll pay him the compliment of assuming that he’s studied the federal ledger in enough detail already to have grasped the truth of Riedl’s points. If so, he must know that DOGE’s work is futile—as a fiscal project, except on a very modest scale. Trying to put a meaningful dent in overspending by gutting outfits like USAID is like trying to pay off one’s student loans by scaling back on lattes at Starbucks. The math won’t math.

But DOGE isn’t a fiscal project. It’s an ideological project. And from that standpoint, it’s been pretty successful.

 

Rules 1 and 2. They are 1 and 2 for a reason. They frequently have nothing so they frequently attack the source or the person they are "debating."

[Deluge]

3 minutes ago, Radiorum said:

They lie both about what they are doing and their intention. It's called the "DOGE hoax."

Elon Musk is a newbie to government, but I’ll pay him the compliment of assuming that he’s studied the federal ledger in enough detail already to have grasped the truth of Riedl’s points. If so, he must know that DOGE’s work is futile—as a fiscal project, except on a very modest scale. Trying to put a meaningful dent in overspending by gutting outfits like USAID is like trying to pay off one’s student loans by scaling back on lattes at Starbucks. The math won’t math.

But DOGE isn’t a fiscal project. It’s an ideological project. And from that standpoint, it’s been pretty successful.

 

So let's just give up and keep bleeding the country? 

No, d*ckhead, you and Nick Catoggio are wrong - dead wrong. We attack this thing head on, just like DOGE is doing, because nobody else will. 

I am for DOGE because I want the US to become strong again. YOU are against DOGE because you hate the US and want the entire planet under one flag. 

We keep going with the cuts, HAPPILY. 

[WestCanMan]

16 hours ago, Radiorum said:

Just another example of how Trump and Musk don't give a sh*t about the average American...

Do you ever pause... and think for a second if what you read in WashPo or NYT, or what you saw on NPR or CNN was really 100% true? Or if maybe it's only partly true but also misleading? 

How is it that after all this time you still just skim over an article and then just do a cut-and-paste job of the title here?

Did you learn nothing from your 'Censorship' thread? Nothing at all? You're just gonna keep copying and pasting and getting laughed at?

[Radiorum]

4 minutes ago, WestCanMan said:

Do you ever pause... and think for a second if what you read in WashPo or NYT, or what you saw on NPR or CNN was really 100% true? Or if maybe it's only partly true but also misleading? 

How is it that after all this time you still just skim over an article and then just do a cut-and-paste job of the title here?

Did you learn nothing from your 'Censorship' thread? Nothing at all? You're just gonna keep copying and pasting and getting laughed at?

So, what about those farmers, eh?

[WestCanMan]

17 minutes ago, Radiorum said:

So, what about those farmers, eh?

So, what about just questioning what you read sometimes, eh?

What about checking with other sources to see if what you're reading is true, or if you're being misled?

I just checked on the price of some farming staples. It seems like low prices on crop yields for farmers is just a continuing trend... Apparently "all the money that USAID was spending on crops" wasn't keeping the prices up... 

That's from last summer and December 2023, long before USAID put their heads on the chopping block. (FYI the reason they were "first" is they ignored the 90-day freeze at the beginning, so Trump had another tantrum)

Edited February 17 by WestCanMan

[ironstone]

12 hours ago, robosmith said:

You're objecting to chicken feed to promote US human rights. 🤮

When you add up all of the 'chicken feed' the sum can be staggering.

How does a transgender comic book promote US human rights?

[robosmith]

8 minutes ago, ironstone said:

When you add up all of the 'chicken feed' the sum can be staggering.

$40B for USAID is <1% of the Federal budget. US Generals have said it's a lot cheaper than bullets.

8 minutes ago, ironstone said:

How does a transgender comic book promote US human rights?

Do you know what normalization is? As long as trans are viewed as less than human, they don't have equal rights.

[ironstone]

7 minutes ago, robosmith said:

Do you know what normalization is? As long as trans are viewed as less than human, they don't have equal rights.

Has USAID been funding that kind of agenda in any Muslim countries?