> I'm just not a fan of foreign spending using taxpayer funding at all. If only things were that simple. The US spent billions of dollars for food from US Far

> I'm just not a fan of foreign spending using taxpayer funding at all. If only things were that simple. The US spent billions of dollars for food from US Farmers. Ask them about their lost billions for sorghum, corn, beans, soybeans, rice, vegetable oil and other crops that they could sell to the US government in bulk. Not just the farmers, but also the small town USA communities that benefit from the farms. Or the US AID funded innovation labs that "was providing market access to U.S. farmers [...] not just in trade negotiations but also in indirect ways by creating a populace that is not starving so they have extra income to buy poultry, for example, which in turn expands the global market for soybean-based feeds.”[0] Here is a site[1] that attempts to piece together a "reconstruction of USAID's agricultural connections across America" "following the removal of the official USAID website, which contained comprehensive data on agricultural partnerships" from archived reports and other public sources. [0] https://www.agweb.com/news/policy/politics/usaid-dismantling-what-it-means-farmers-and-ag-research https://www.agweb.com/news/policy/politics/usaid-dismantling... [1] https://www.usaidstopwork.com/agricultural-impact https://www.usaidstopwork.com/agricultural-impact