It’s just temporary, but, it just shows that the Trump admin is serious about revamping the way government works
Secretary of State Marco Rubio orders halt to almost all U.S. foreign aid
Secretary of State Marco Rubio ordered an immediate stop to the flow of almost all U.S. foreign assistance Friday pending a review, according to an internal State Department cable obtained by NBC News.
The directive sent to all consular and diplomatic posts follows President Donald Trump’s executive order Monday pausing new obligations and disbursements of foreign aid pending reviews “for programmatic efficiency and consistency” with U.S. foreign policy, within 90 days of the order.
The memo stipulates that U.S. departments, agencies and entities “shall not provide foreign assistance funded by or through the Department and USAID without the Secretary of State’s authorization or the authorization of his designee.”
Rubio issued a waiver for foreign military financing for both Israel and Egypt, but no other countries were specifically mentioned in the cable. Rubio spoke with both his Israeli and Egyptian counterparts Thursday ahead of the directive.
A waiver was also approved for “emergency food assistance and administrative expenses, including salaries, necessary to administer such assistance.” The salaries of U.S. direct-hire employees and locally employed staff also received a waiver on a “temporary basis.”
This is obviously making Democrats Very Upset, since they care more about giving American taxpayer money to other nations, including those who hate the U.S. and which are a complete waste. They want the cash spigot to stay open, and definitely do not want any sort of review over how the money is spent and where it goes and how it is disbursed and if there is any, you know, fraud and waste.
Justice Department curtails prosecutions for blocking access to reproductive health centers
President Donald Trump’s new Justice Department leadership issued an order Friday to curtail prosecutions against people accused of blocking access to abortion clinics and reproductive health centers, calling the cases an example of the “weaponization” of law enforcement.
Prosecutions and civil actions under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act or “FACE Act” will now be permitted only in “extraordinary circumstances” or in cases presenting ”significant aggravating factors,” attorney general chief of staff Chad Mizelle said in a memo sent to the head of the department’s Civil Rights Division.
Mizelle also ordered the immediate dismissal of three FACE Act cases related to 2021 blockades of clinics in Tennessee, Pennsylvania and Ohio.
Good. How this law has sustained judicial review for being against the 1st Amendment, I do not know.
No doubt Il Douche or his billionaire cronies have business interests in the Israel and Egypt defense industries.
LOL. Who is the greatest long-term beneficiary of US foreign? Israel, by far. By far.
This is also allows Il Douche to give Ukraine to Putin, as promised!
Regarding not prosecuting persons who threaten, harass, block or attack persons attempting to enter a reproductive health services facility, this is consistent with Il Douche’s support for violence from his supporters and his objective of ending all abortion in the US.
The FACE statute which Il Douche has decided to ignore, restricts persons:
1) By force or threat of force or by physical obstruction, intentionally injures, intimidates or interferes with or attempts to injure, intimidate or interfere with any person because that person is or has been, or in order to intimidate such person or any other person or any class of persons from, obtaining or providing reproductive health services;
2) Intentionally damages or destroys the property of a facility, or attempts to do so, because such facility provides reproductive health services.
Might makes right, baby! “You wanna abortion, bitch, you gotta get through me!!!”
A Tennessee jury found Health
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Anti-Abortion Extremists Found Guilty of Conspiring and Blockading Tennessee Clinic
PUBLISHED 1/30/2024 by Emilia Dominguez
Updated Thursday, April 25, to reflect guilty verdicts for the four remaining defendants.
A federal jury convicted six defendants of federal civil rights offenses arising out of their blockade of a reproductive healthcare clinic in Mt. Juliet, Tenn., on March 5, 2021. Dennis Green of Life and Liberty Ministries live-streamed the invasion on Facebook. (Dennis Green / Facebook)
On Jan. 30, a federal jury in Nashville found six defendants guilty of conspiring to violate the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act for blockading a Nashville-area clinic and intimidating patients and clinic employees. In just two hours, a jury selected from Tennessee—the heart of the Bible Belt—returned a verdict against a group of extremists associated with Operation Save America (OSA), a national anti-abortion group, for obstructing the employee and patient entrances of carafem abortion clinic for almost three hours on March 5, 2021.
The distinguished Mr Dowd wrote:
In 2024, Davidson County, where Nashville is, gave 181,862 votes (62.70%) to the Communist from California, and only 102,256 votes (35.26%) to the Miracle Worker from Mar-a-Lago. Only three out of 95 counties in the Volunteer State were carried by Mrs Emhoff, and Mr Trump came close to doubling Mrs Emhoff’s statewide totals, 1,966,865 (64.29%) to 1,056,265 (34.47%).
Absotively, posilutely!
According to the 2020 Census, Davidson County is 23.95% non-Hispanic black, so, in trying to shut down a prenatal infanticide ‘clinic,’ those evil, reich-wing White Supremacists™ were attempting to save primarily black babies; black women in this country have roughly five times the abortion rate of white women.
“Who is the greatest long term beneficiary of US foreign..Israel”
What other ally has been constantly attacked since 1948 by other countries trying to wipe it off the face of the earth? Israel
It’s a genuine mystery….
Ellie
Yes President Trump should pardon them.
This has been a goal of conservatives for decades. One we never thought we would ever see because distributing American wealth to other countries is just how career diplomats buy influence and live like royalty. We didn’t even know this was on the menu when we voted for Trump. A whole lot of foreign dictators and Directors of NGOs are going to feel their allowance getting cut.
Maybe Democrats can impeach Trump for this.
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