As President Donald Trump's administration targets the U.S. Agency for International Development for closure or major downsizing, the White House and social media posts have highlighted four projects as examples of the agency's "waste and abuse." But only one was funded by USAID.

As President Donald Trump’s administration targets the U.S. Agency for International Development for closure or major downsizing, the White House and social media posts have highlighted four projects as examples of the agency’s “waste and abuse.” But only one was funded by USAID.

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  • lemonmelon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    15 hours ago

    I cannot even express how shocked I am that the press statement was 75% factually inaccurate; is the Executive branch just blatantly lying to us‽

    Seriously, fuck these assholes. The only way they can justify their pitiful existence is through outright disinformation at the expense of anyone they believe they can marginalize. Makes my fucking blood boil. At least it’s further proof that you can’t rely on the government to do anything other than exploit, decieve, and oppress.

    • jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      2 hours ago

      Yes, thankfully we gave the last admin the boot for the same shit its unfortunate that people thought these assholes were a good idea. But trump is doing exactly what he said he would. I wish democrats had an ounce of the willingness that trump does to meet their base’s wants. Then we probably wouldn’t be in this mess.