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$500 Million in Food Aid Going to Waste Due to DOGE

February 12, 2025February 12, 2025 Buck Banks

$500 million

“Almost $500 million in food aid is at risk of spoilage as it sits in ports, ships and warehouses after funding for the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, was paused by the Trump administration,” CBS News reports.

Let ‘Em Go, Joe

March 19, 2021March 22, 2021 Buck Banks

For hoarding vaccine, we’ve been beat like a pinata,
‘Cause we’ve got millions of doses of AstraZeneca.
So now President Biden’s
Looking to dump them —
Why not on our neighbors, Mexico and Canada?

Majority Believe Aid to Egypt Should Be Stopped

August 20, 2013August 20, 2013 Buck Banks

51%

Of Americans think aid to Egypt should be cut off, a new Pew Research poll finds, and 50% think President Obama’s response has not been tough enough. The office of Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), the head of the appropriations state and foreign-operations subcommittee, said Monday that $500 million in military aid to Egypt has been temporarily cut off.

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$500 Million in Food Aid Going to Waste Due to DOGE

$500 million

“Almost $500 million in food aid is at risk of spoilage as it sits in ports, ships and warehouses after funding for the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, was paused by the Trump administration,” CBS News reports.

Let ‘Em Go, Joe

Majority Believe Aid to Egypt Should Be Stopped

51%

Numerati

53%

A new Morning Consult poll finds 53% of Americans don’t know why the American colonies adopted the Declaration of Independence to separate from Britain on July 4, 1776.

$1.6 billion

President Trump’s pardons and commutations have cost more than $100 million in fines owed to the federal government and another $1.5 billion in restitution to victims, Forbes reports.

58%

$3.3 trillion

93%