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Why not get mad at all the money appropriated to USAID to fund specific causes and find out most of that money went to pay for houses near Langley, VA and Polit

Why not get mad at all the money appropriated to USAID to fund specific causes and find out most of that money went to pay for houses near Langley, VA and Politico accounts? That's a much larger scandal than this super transparent process happening. The scandal is now super deep. They just caught FEMA funding another $60 M going to hotels in NYC! Prepare for this to get deeper. I hope they root out all corruption. My hat is off to them, I'm extremely overjoyed they're finally fixing our government. This is the best government the USA has ever had.

DiogenesKynikos 2y ago
> Why not get mad at all the money appropriated to USAID to fund specific causes and find out most of that money went to pay for houses near Langley, VA and Politico accounts? It didn't, and I'm disappointed to see that there are people on HN who fall for such absurd falsehoods.
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- almosthere 2y ago
  https://thedispatch.com/article/fact-check-politico-usaid-funding/ https://thedispatch.com/article/fact-check-politico-usaid-fu... See corrections at the bottom. It's confirmed that $8.2M from USAID and other us gov agencies went to politico!
  - DiogenesKynikos 2y ago
    Have you even read the article you linked to? It says that USAID only paid $44k to Politico, for subscriptions to a publication it runs. $44k is nowhere near "most" of USAID's budget. It's less than 0.0001%. If you want USAID to stop subscribing to publications, that's a very minor change. You don't shut down an entire agency over that.
    - almosthere 2y ago
      Comically they wrote an article, then fact checked themselves in the correction basically saying they the original reporting was correct. > Also, the $8.2 million figure cited refers to payments in the 12 months leading up to February 2025, not dating back to 2016. Talk about lying profusely. USAID is an ARM of the CIA, why would you want that?
      - DiogenesKynikos 2y ago
        You still haven't addressed the fact that USAID only paid $44k to Politico (over two years, for subscriptions), which is less than 0.0001% of USAID's budget. You said USAID spends most of its budget on Politico and apartments near Langley. Are you going to admit that that was nonsense, before switching to your next argument?

DiogenesKynikos 2y ago

> Why not get mad at all the money appropriated to USAID to fund specific causes and find out most of that money went to pay for houses near Langley, VA and Politico accounts? It didn't, and I'm disappointed to see that there are people on HN who fall for such absurd falsehoods.

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almosthere 2y ago
https://thedispatch.com/article/fact-check-politico-usaid-funding/ https://thedispatch.com/article/fact-check-politico-usaid-fu... See corrections at the bottom. It's confirmed that $8.2M from USAID and other us gov agencies went to politico!
- DiogenesKynikos 2y ago
  Have you even read the article you linked to? It says that USAID only paid $44k to Politico, for subscriptions to a publication it runs. $44k is nowhere near "most" of USAID's budget. It's less than 0.0001%. If you want USAID to stop subscribing to publications, that's a very minor change. You don't shut down an entire agency over that.
  - almosthere 2y ago
    Comically they wrote an article, then fact checked themselves in the correction basically saying they the original reporting was correct. > Also, the $8.2 million figure cited refers to payments in the 12 months leading up to February 2025, not dating back to 2016. Talk about lying profusely. USAID is an ARM of the CIA, why would you want that?
    - DiogenesKynikos 2y ago
      You still haven't addressed the fact that USAID only paid $44k to Politico (over two years, for subscriptions), which is less than 0.0001% of USAID's budget. You said USAID spends most of its budget on Politico and apartments near Langley. Are you going to admit that that was nonsense, before switching to your next argument?