Look, it’s bad enough that the U.S. spends money on the scam here at home: why in the blankety blank are we pissing away taxpayer money for Peru to Do Something?
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced it had terminated 113 contracts valued at $4.7 billion Tuesday, including a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) consulting contract for Peru’s climate change activities.
“[Tuesday] agencies terminated 113 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $4.7B and savings of $3.3B, including a $145K USDA consulting contract for ‘Peru climate change activities,'” the department posted on X.
Sure, as they say, it’s just $145K (do most Americans think of that as a pittance?), but, every penny adds up. Let Peru find the money for it.
DOGE also announced the Department of Labor had canceled $577 million in “America Last” grants, totaling $237 million in savings.
The funding that was canceled included $10 million for “gender equity in the Mexican workplace,” $12.2 million for “worker empowerment in South America” and $6.25 million for “improving respect for workers’ rights in agricultural supply chains” in the countries of Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador.
Also eliminated was $5 million to elevate women’s participation in the workplace in West Africa, $4.3 million to assist foreign migrant workers in Malaysia, $3 million to enhance Social Security access and worker protection for internal migrant workers in Bangladesh and $3 million for safe and inclusive work environments in the southern African country of Lesotho.
What I would love for them to do is audit programs where the money has already been spent, see what happened to it. See how much actually made it for the projects and how much went into the pockets of NGOs, private companies, big wigs in those countries, and the pockets of the US government workers. Then start with the criminal charges. Maybe then all these agencies and employees wouldn’t feel empowered to just do whatever the hell the want with taxpayer money.
… why in the blankety blank are we pissing away taxpayer money for Peru to Do Something?
We aren’t. That is just how the game is played. A friend of a Democrat gets a no-bid multi-year contract to “do something” (climate change, trans-something, it doesn’t matter). Very little actually gets done but the people with the contract become millionaires and they show their gratitude by donating money to their patrons.
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Bret Baier interviews the DOGE team with Elon Musk on Fox News – Video
https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2025/03/bret-baier-interviews-doge-team-with.html
Every penny that is earmarked for any location outside of the United States should receive the strictest of scrutiny. “Gender equity in the Mexican workplace”? We’re having difficulty fighting for Western civilization here in the United States, with all of the Islamist sympathizers here; how the f(ornicate) can we fight for it in what President Trump once accurately described as [insert vulgar term for feces here]hole countries abroad?