The reconstruction of USAID from an independent terrorist and international leftist funding entity to a subsidiary of the State Department has Democrats involved in the foreign policy apparatus freaking out and desperately trying to get Americans to care.
Here’s Sen. Chris Coons, former ‘bearded Marxist’, taking his best shot at it in the paper of big government.
Trump’s attack on USAID is an assault on Americans’ safety – Washington Post
Coons claims that “USAID’s programs, like all our foreign assistance, play a central role in combating extremism, promoting stability and protecting our homeland.”
The reality is USAID had us sending $600 million to Pakistan, $3.7B to Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover, $2 billion to the PLO and Hamas after Oct 7, and $3.4B to Yemen whose Houthi regime we’re currently at war with.
How does funding Islamic terrorists combat extremism and protect our homeland?
” Our foreign assistance and engagement wins us friends around the world, establishes our leadership and, more important, neutralizes distant threats to the United States well before they put our country at risk,” Coons claims.
“We know that in countries such as Somalia, Yemen and Syria, terrorists exploit security vacuums to develop havens from which to attack the United States and our friends — as the Islamic State did in the 2010s and al-Qaeda did in the run-up to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Our foreign assistance funds are used to train friendly militaries to raid terrorist training camps, to secure prisons where Islamic States members are held, and to provide the equipment needed to screen and keep bombs off planes.”
Sen. Coons is either dumb or lying. He’s confusing USAID with foreign military financing. The vast majority of USAID funds has absolutely nothing to do with any kind of security. It’s money being shoved at foreign NGOs, including the UN, which then provide a cut to terrorists.
It’s not used to stop Al Qaeda, and the best evidence of that are the exemptions provided for doing business with Islamic terrorists.
USAID doesn’t keep Americans safe, it endangers them.