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Tim Hirschel-Burns
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In the last 18 months, Congress has given DHS $240 billion — a quarter of a trillion.
I thought people were kidding, turns out Elon really did axe the screwworm containment program back in March 25. fucking imbecile www.agri-pulse.com/articles/226...
Among the more than 5,300 grants and programs killed as a result of the Trump administration’s USAID cuts are a slate of U.S.-funded programs at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, including eff...
(He did eventually get the visa, thanks to the good fortune of a tweet going viral and a member of Congress personally taking two calls with the embassy, and he had a wonderful two week stay in the US and returned home just as we always said he would)
When we tried to have my best friend from Benin visit me in the US, he had to wait eight months for an appointment, travel six hours to the embassy and pay an $100+ fee, and then he was rejected in about a minute.
Now he’d have to wait even longer and travel even farther
Part of it is negative polarization, but I think a big part is that it’s easy to decry an aid agency when there are no stakes to the debate and a lot harder when you are seeing in real time what happens when aid isn’t there
