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muriel_volestrangler

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10. I don't know when Trump admitted he felt like stopping the vast majority of non-military aid

Reply to mathematic (Reply #9)

Tue Jul 1, 2025, 03:00 PM

Jul 1

Everyone did seem shocked when they did it this year. As far as I knew, this was a surprise (unlike, say, the mass deportation of immigrants, for which he'd said several times before the election he wanted to chuck out up to 20 million people).

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Trump global aid cuts risk 14 million deaths in five years, report says [View all] muriel_volestrangler Jul 1 OP

MAGA Hitler numbers! wolfie001 Jul 1 #1

The GOP can't be shamed by this. It is their goal. travelingthrulife Jul 1 #2

"refused to accept Christ." I guess that is a Missionary's mission. Jam it down their throats. Crusades inspired. n/t Evolve Dammit Jul 1 #12

Shamelessness Seinan Sensei Jul 1 #13

Doge cuts to USAid blamed for 300,000 deaths -- most of them children Botany Jul 1 #3

But if you want to be worse than Stalin Turbineguy Jul 1 #4

He's literally a merchant of death. n/t SpankMe Jul 1 #5

Hope each and ever one of them is MAGArat. republianmushroom Jul 1 #6

Can't quite spell a paticular word where what a person does is is because the have No Conscious... electric_blue68 Jul 1 #7

"Trump global aid cuts risk 14 million deaths in five years" LudwigPastorius Jul 1 #8

I had no idea America was saving so many millions of lives around the world mathematic Jul 1 #9

I don't know when Trump admitted he felt like stopping the vast majority of non-military aid muriel_volestrangler Jul 1 #10

Ending all foreign aid has been a long simmering goal of all sorts of isolationists. mathematic Jul 1 #11