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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: bighairymike ⎊  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: More on USAID Expenditures of Taxpayer Money
Date: 02/04/25 9:16 AM
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>>$1.5M to Serbian LGBTQ Rights Group
$2.5M for Electric Vehicles for Vietnam
$30M for South African Transgender HIV Research
$4M for Ugandan LGBTQ Rights Group
$6M for Egyptian Tourism.<<

That's .11% of 40 billion. That's all they could come up with to shut it down? - Lapsody

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Tiny isn't it. But the audit is just getting underway. There are reports that T&E in USAID may be 40-50% of Agency expenditures.

Also what I posted above was not presented as an exhaustive list. Recall other posts concerning the funding of an LGBTQ Opera in some foreign country whose name I don't recall right now. Then the $20,000 LGBTQ Comic Books for Peru.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has stated on several occasions that there are worthwhile programs being supported through USAID. But first the Agency needs to be reformed to better align with US Foreign Policy and to be more careful and frugal when doling out US Taxpayer dollars.

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