But, see, if that money was spent on warning systems instead of Woke crap they wouldn’t have been able to siphon off at least 60% (via Green Jihad)
From the article
Even before Nepal was devastated by deadly flooding, questions were already emerging in Congress and elsewhere about whether the Asian nation used its U.S. foreign aid assistance to focus on woke ideology vanity projects like assisting transgender sex workers instead of shoring up its defenses against the threat of annual monsoons. (big snip)
While USAID money did go to some helpful programs in Nepal, questions about whether U.S. taxpayers should have been funding education and health initiatives in the country aside, at least some went to questionable services such as transgender employment. Last month, the Associated Press lamented the fact that USAID funding cuts have led to lower employment for transgender aid workers in Nepal.
Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, responded to the article on X.
“Our tax dollars no longer fund employment for transgender Nepalese sex workers,” he wrote. “Thank you for reminding us why defunding USAID was long overdue.”
Other USAID initiatives also went toward diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) goals, rather than tangible assistance. One program, estimated to cost $20 million, sought to “improve equitable educational outcomes for marginalized children,” including “equity and inclusion activities” to keep students in school.
Instead of spending the money on things that actually matter (I can think of 1 reason to fund this: a lot of Americans go to Nepal to visit, hike, and climb, and this would protect them. Around 90 Americans are still missing)
In late July, Bangladesh had similar catastrophic flooding but used its early warning systems to evacuate tens of thousands of people and keep the death toll much lower. Fifty-nine people died in the flooding, according to the United Nations. Much of USAID’s funding in Bangladesh, a more conservative country than Nepal, went to disaster management and food security, rather than DEI initiatives – although there was some funding for that as well.
The priorities for the UN and USAID were totally FUBAR. But, then, the people involved also got their own kickbacks.
AP is not journalism, rather advocacy promoting societal perversion endemic to uncivilized stone age populations whose respect for human life and dignity does not exist. Aid funding was never beneficial or appropriately applied, typically and conveniently screeching at Trump administration as for their pity party mantra.
See AP article:
https://apnews.com/article/usaid-nepal-sex-workers-trump-budget-cuts-d8ea21ca4d43f1598ea54499123d46e0
WTI oil price $91
US gas price $4.12 trending up
2 more tankers hit existing Strait hit by Iran after not paying tolls
Global demand destruction especially Gyna keeping oil/gas prices lower 2/3s of all new cars in China are electricird
Hold on. President Quagmire Don, in our oval office, jawboned the oil barons THEN seized 65 billion barrels of crude from Venezuela AND gas prices went UP??? WTF?
Maybe we should tariff iran extra hard!!
The landslide was triggered by blasting by Chinese construction company. It erased a border crossing hq in China. China did get a warning, but in true communist fashion, they told no one. Not the Nepalese, not their own people. They didn’t want to look bad. They issued the same ridiculous press release They do for all disasters that less than 30 people died. Nepal doesn’t have the money for a warning system an constant monitoring. China does. But China couldn’t care less about deaths of thousands. The right answer isn’t “the USA should fund important projects in Nepal”. That was never the right answer. This is a Chinese problem.