America Faces No Greater Threat Than Joe Biden and the Democrat Party. Their Assault to Our Borders Is As Great As Their Assault to Free Speech and Free Elections
Wednesday, May 31, 2023
SQUANDERING AMERICA AS FAST AS THEY CAN SUCK THE BRIBES - The President and many members of Congress want to keep borrowing money and don’t seem to care about whether their expenditures are essential or non-essential, nor do they seem to care about the very real and perilous ramifications of overspending.
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The Biden administration plans to spend $1.5 million in taxpayer funds on a program aimed at "empowering" female climate change activists in northern Kenya, documents reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show.
President Joe Biden's U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) on May 22 unveiled the funding opportunity, which is aimed at "empowering women to adapt to climate change in northern Kenya." Women in the area, the agency wrote in its notice, live in "traditionally patriarchal communities" and therefore lack the ability to steer the African nation's fight against climate change. As such, the agency is putting big money behind a program that will "empower women, improve their participation in decision making, and enhance adaptive capabilities to climate change."
The funding announcement comes roughly one year after USAID released its 2022-2030 climate strategy, which outlines a $150 billion "whole-of-Agency approach" to building an "equitable world with net-zero greenhouse gas emissions." As part of that approach, USAID pledged to help "women, youth, and other marginalized and/or underrepresented groups" increase their "meaningful participation and active leadership in climate action." The agency has since set aside millions of dollars to inspire and support overseas climate activists—in addition to its northern Kenya grant, USAID in March announced a program that will help disabled people in the Central Asian country of Tajikistan become "climate leaders," the Free Beacon reported.
Those efforts have prompted criticism from congressional Republicans, who argue that the spending is a waste of taxpayer funds. Florida Republican senator Rick Scott in March said American tax dollars "should be supporting Americans, not overseas climate activists," while Virginia Republican congressman Ben Cline hammered Biden for using public funds "to build an army of Green New Deal activists around the world." Still, USAID's northern Kenya grant shows the agency has no plans to slow its spending on foreign climate activism.
USAID said the grant will "help farmers and other vulnerable groups better prepare for climate impacts in a region hit hard by climate change."
"Women are an integral part of the solution to the climate crisis. They are typically responsible for securing the energy and water needs of their households, the managers of livestock or poultry, and the cooks in the family kitchens," an agency spokesperson said. "Women also often have fewer rights and economic opportunities in the places USAID works, and we work to ensure they benefit from U.S. assistance."
The agency’s climate-focused work in Kenya reflects the Biden administration's government-wide mandate to fight climate change. In January 2021, just one week after taking office, Biden issued an executive order calling on all government agencies to "combat the climate crisis with bold, progressive action." Federal agencies that have seemingly nothing to do with climate change responded by releasing "Climate Action Plans." Biden's Department of Veterans Affairs, for example, in August 2021 unveiled its climate plan, which pledges to respond to the "projected impacts of climate change" by making its buildings more "climate-resilient."
USAID, meanwhile, is not the only Biden administration agency working to spur climate activism abroad. Biden's State Department earlier this month announced a $50,000 effort to create a "climate action podcast" in India, the Free Beaconreported. The department hopes the podcast will inspire Indian "changemakers" to live "lifestyles with more sustainable choices" and "see the United States as a source of partnership and leadership in protecting the planet."
USAID's focus on climate change has come under former Obama administration official Samantha Power, whom Biden tapped to lead the agency in January 2021. Power, who in August 2021 declared that "climate change is sexist," has used her USAID climate work to travel the world—in March, for example, Power filmed a correspondence from a Vietnamese fish farm that she said is "already feeling the effects of climate change."
Power's climate emphasis has in some cases seemed to keep the Biden administration official from discussing more pressing humanitarian issues. In February, for example, Power met with Iraq's foreign minister. USAID's subsequent readout of the sitdown did not mention the words "ISIS" or "terrorism" but did praise Iraq for its work addressing the "impacts of climate change." Power's climate-related work in Tajikistan, meanwhile, comes as the former Soviet republic partners with China to build military bases and conduct joint military drills.
Or, how about the $17,000,000 (MILLION) spent on unused hotel rooms for illegal immigrants (DHS) and the $168,000,000 spent to help illegal immigrants avoid deportation (DHS)?
The President and many members of Congress want to keep borrowing money and don’t seem to care about whether their expenditures are essential or non-essential, nor do they seem to care about the very real and perilous ramifications of overspending.
From 2012–2022, interest payments on debt held by the public totaled $3,593 billion; interest payments on intragovernmental debt holdings totaled $1,919 billion. The grand total in interest payments amounted to a hefty $5,512 billion.
Who is benefitting from owning our debt?
The top foreign owners of U.S. National Debt are Japan, China, UK, Belgium and Luxembourg. Other holders of our debt include state and local governments, pension funds, insurance companies, U.S. banks, mutual funds, and savings bonds investors. Intragovernmental debt is held by various agencies and entities within the U.S. government.
In addition to wasting money on interest payments, Congress has been lax about government waste and fraud, and their spending on non-essential projects during a time when we should be belt-tightening is inexplicable. Fortunately, all this waste hasn’t gotten by Senator Rand Paul, who has been tracking all the wasteful spending and reports on it annually. Every citizen should read his annual Festivus report at the following link.
In the report, Senator Paul details a whopping $482,276,543,907 of waste in 2022.
How do you think the over half a million homeless Americans would feel about our spending $2,100,000 to encourage Ethiopians to wear shoes (NIH)? $50,000,000 to boost the Tunisia travel sector during COVID-19 (USAID)? $1,700,000,000 to maintain 77,000 empty Federal buildings (GSA)? Or, how about the $17,000,000 spent on unused hotel rooms for illegal immigrants (DHS) and the $168,000,000 spent to help illegal immigrants avoid deportation (DHS)?
I’m not homeless, but it makes me furious!
What do you think the millions of food-insecure would think about our spending $210,069,000 on basic education projects in Jordan (USAID); $3,000,000 to construct a Gandhi museum, or $1,100,000 for training mice to binge drink alcohol (NIH)?
How do you feel about the billions wasted that could have been used in your community to replace a dangerous bridge, build roads, clean up your water supply (thinking of you, Flint, MI), and so on?
Are our representatives inept or stupid, or do they have nefarious motive? I can’t decide, but it’s time to take away the Congressional credit card until they can be held accountable and stop wasting tax money.
Personally, I don’t mind paying taxes to live in our country, but I just don’t like how my tax dollars are squandered. I worked too hard to have it thrown it away.
If we are of a similar mindset, then please, contact your representatives in Congress today and tell them to start paying down our debt and live within our means. Accruing all this debt is dangerous to our survival and unjustifiable.
Or, how about the $17,000,000 spent on unused hotel rooms for illegal immigrants (DHS) and the $168,000,000 spent to help illegal immigrants avoid deportation (DHS)?
rosecutors Seek Death Penalty Against MS-13 Gang Member Charged with Murdering Uber Eats Driver
Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against an MS-13 gang member who had recently been released from prison on parole, charged with murdering an Uber Eats driver in a case that police have called “demonic.”
Oscar Solis, a 30-year-old MS-13 Gang member, was arrested last month for allegedly murdering and dismembering 59-year-old Randall Cooke, a husband and stepfather, as he was delivering food to the gang member’s home in his final delivery for the night, Breitbart News reported at the time.
This month, Solis pleaded not guilty to murdering and dismembering Cooke, even as prosecutors said the gang member stabbed the Uber Eats driver 35 times.
Prosecutors confirmed they will seek the death penalty against Solis.
“I’ve never seen anything like this before,” Pasco County State Attorney Bruce Bartlett told theTampa Bay Times. “I cannot focus on how an individual can be so vile. I cannot for the life of me believe he was so nonchalant in what he did.”
Randall Cooke, murdered allegedly by an MS-13 Gang member, alongside his wife Kathy whom he married in 2020. (Photo via Facebook)
According to the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office, on April 19, Cooke was texting with his wife, Kathy, whom he married in 2020, on the night of his murder. Cooke had one final Uber Eats delivery to make, a job he got to support his wife and stepdaughters’ dreams of living oceanside.
Police said security camera footage shows Cooke making the delivery at Solis’s residence before the camera shuts off. From there, police believe Solis yanked Cooke inside the home, murdered him, dismembered his body, and then stuffed his remains in trash bags, which he later took out to garbage cans with another suspect.
Solis had been recently released on parole from prison in January of this year in Indiana and then moved to Holiday and failed to register as a convicted felon — a violation of his parole.
Solis’s lengthy criminal record includes stabbing a fellow prison inmate multiple times, aggravated battery, multiple burglary convictions, drug offenses, resisting law enforcement, and assaulting prison staff.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
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