The Trump Administration has informed Congress that they intend to
divert $40 million in humanitarian aid away from that and giving it to
Venezuela’s opposition instead.
USAID, nominally a humanitarian aid body but in practice tends to be
used to subsidize covert actions, informed Congress that the $40 million will be used to pay for salaries and other expenses for the Guaido “government” budget.
USAID argues that the funding of Guaido is in “the US national
interest,” while Maduro criticized the vote as more proof that Guaido is
just a US-funded puppet.
The humanitarian aid cuts are for central America, meaning likely El
Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, nations which President Trump has
been trying to punish by slashing aid at any rate because he’s mad about
immigration.
That is very honest of them, them being an apolitical humanitarian aid organisation and all that.
So I forget, are we seeking regime change in Venezuela or are we open for talks with no “preconditions”? Hard to keep up unless you have a scorecard.
Meanwhile American families are living in cars, but lets lets make sure our puppet and his buddies have their salaries .$40,000,000 worth…
Indeed, Vic, American families are living in cars, in homeless shelters, and in tents. This is an abomination, stealing from US taxpayers to divert that $40 million in aid to Venezuela opposition.
We all should be letting the DJT Admin. know that this diversion is Grand Larceny (a felony) and demand reparations.
No inconsistency there… it’s a humanitarian effort to back a coup plotter because if Venezuela won’t do as we command because we bribed them into it, they’ll do what we command because we killed everyone who wouldn’t.
How else could they afford Mar Lago memberships and trump hotels ?
Wonderful, interventionism has been nothing but a smashing success for both the USA and the victims for the last 70 years or so.
How much of that money will find its way back into the pockets of Americans in Washington? Is this how E Abrams is paid?
If any nation did this in the US, reasoning that it was in that country’s national interest to influence our elections, we would go nuts. Yet as we are going nuts about exactly that, we actively do it to others.
cool, now point out precisely where within the body of the constitution, it grants the authority as one of the powers granted to the federal government, to take money that was stolen from tax payers and to then give it to some foreign entity.. good luck!