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I was going to say the same approach as SCOTUS
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Yeah, he needs to let that idea die.
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Trump Appointed US Secretary of Defense considers it "unrealistic" for Ukraine to return to pre-2014 borders
A return to Ukraine's pre-2014 borders is an "unrealistic" goal, as stated by US Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, at a NATO meeting in Brussels. He also mentioned that the US does not see Ukraine's accession to NATO as part of a peace plan to end the war in Ukraine."We, like you, want a sovereign and prosperous Ukraine, but we must start by recognizing that returning to Ukraine's pre-2014 borders is an unrealistic goal. Pursuing this illusory goal will only prolong the war and cause more suffering," were Pete Hegseth's words.
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Ohh look they are even lying about a Prisoner release from Russia....>WHY ??? Seriously....WHY lie about his ??
Teacher Marc Fogel released from Russia
Marco Rubio and hostage affairs envoy Adam Boehler joined “CUOMO” via phone on their way to pick up American teacher Marc Fogel, whose release from Russian detainment was secured by the Trump administration Tuesday.
The pair pointed out that Russia asked for nothing in return when releasing Fogel, which Rubio said “There wasn’t some deal here where we had to release, like, 10 spies,” Rubio added. “And I think it shows President Trump’s commitment to bringing home Americans.
A spokesperson for the Kremlin told reporters earlier on Wednesday that the U.S. had released a Russian citizen in exchange for Fogel, but declined to identify the person until they returned to their home country, according to the Associated Press.
The Russian man freed in the deal is Alexander Vinnik, 45, who stands accused of laundering billions through the digital currency exchange website he ran, an unnamed U.S. official told The New York Times on Wednesday.
The news comes after Trump on Tuesday evaded questions about what exactly the U.S. gave up to free Fogel. The president would only repeat his evaluation that the deal was “very fair.”
Teacher Marc Fogel released from Russia
Marco Rubio and hostage affairs envoy Adam Boehler joined “CUOMO” via phone on their way to pick up American teacher Marc Fogel, whose release from Russian detainment was secured by the Trump administration Tuesday.
The pair pointed out that Russia asked for nothing in return when releasing Fogel, which Rubio said “There wasn’t some deal here where we had to release, like, 10 spies,” Rubio added. “And I think it shows President Trump’s commitment to bringing home Americans.
A spokesperson for the Kremlin told reporters earlier on Wednesday that the U.S. had released a Russian citizen in exchange for Fogel, but declined to identify the person until they returned to their home country, according to the Associated Press.
The Russian man freed in the deal is Alexander Vinnik, 45, who stands accused of laundering billions through the digital currency exchange website he ran, an unnamed U.S. official told The New York Times on Wednesday.
The news comes after Trump on Tuesday evaded questions about what exactly the U.S. gave up to free Fogel. The president would only repeat his evaluation that the deal was “very fair.”
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So now even Republicans are trying to Stop Musk DOGE cuts.
Republicans Try to Save USAID Food Program
WASHINGTON——One of the first efforts to restore a program run by the U.S. Agency for International Development has begun—and it is coming from Republicans.
Congressional Republicans from farm states are trying to save a $1.8 billion U.S. food-aid program that purchases U.S.-grown food and is administered by USAID, which has been largely closed by the Trump administration in recent weeks.
GOP Reps. Tracey Mann of Kansas, Rick Crawford of Arkansas, Dan Newhouse of Washington, David Rouzer of North Carolina, House Agriculture Committee Chairman GT Thompson of Pennsylvania, along with Republican Sens. Jerry Moran of Kansas and John Hoeven of North Dakota, are introducing legislation Tuesday to preserve the Food for Peace program by transferring it to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which currently funds it but doesn’t run it.
“By moving Food for Peace to USDA, the program can continue to equip American producers to serve hungry people while providing more transparency and efficiency as to how taxpayer dollars are stewarded,” Mann said in a written statement Tuesday.
In 2022, American farmers provided more than 4 billion pounds of U.S.-grown grains, soybeans, lentils, rice and other commodity staples through the program, according to a congressional office.
The bill marks a rare effort from Republicans to defend a federal program targeted by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency as it has blitzed through USAID in an unprecedented effort to shrink the federal government. Republicans have largely applauded President Trump’s steps to freeze foreign-aid funding, but are moving to try to restore a program that generates revenue for U.S. farmers.
Additional Republicans from agriculture-rich states are expected to sign on to the bill, according to a congressional aide. The White House hasn’t raised objections to the effort and is watching to see how much support there is for it, the aide said.
Farm groups, which have worried about the impact of pausing federal funding that flows to farmers, backed the legislation.
Caleb Ragland, president of the American Soybean Association, said in a written statement that his group “strongly supports efforts to protect these programs and to ensure U.S. grown commodities continue to feed vulnerable populations around the globe.”
The program’s roots date to the 1950s as a way to send surplus U.S.-grown food to other countries that could use it. It is now the biggest single donor of food for the United Nations’ World Food Programme, among other partners, according to the U.N.
The program was halted after Trump’s executive order freezing foreign aid. Although the order provided an exception for emergency food aid to continue, the administration’s steps to put so many USAID employees on leave, combined with uncertainty over the waivers, made it hard to deliver food overseas, according to a report this week from the USAID’s inspector general.
The Agriculture Department already administers some overseas food aid, including the McGovern-Dole program, which sends U.S.-grown food to schoolchildren in low-income countries. The USDA didn’t respond to questions about whether those programs were continuing to operate.
The Trump administration has sought to slash USAID’s 10,000-person worldwide staff to 600 full-time employees, officials said, and to cancel most of its $40 billion in programs, which include work that tracks and prevents diseases, provides maternal and neonatal care, and delivers food to the hungry.
The effective closing of USAID had thrown U.S. food-aid programs into limbo, stranding hundreds of millions of dollars’ of already-paid-for food at U.S. ports. Republican lawmakers, including Moran, had lobbied the White House to resume exporting U.S.-grown food aid, which the State Department began doing over the weekend, Moran said.
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NEW: A 25-year-old associate of Elon Musk and former Treasury Department employee was "mistakenly" given the ability to make changes to a sensitive federal payment system, officials with the Bureau of the Fiscal Service disclosed in a series of court filings late Tuesday.
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NEW: A 25-year-old associate of Elon Musk and former Treasury Department employee was "mistakenly" given the ability to make changes to a sensitive federal payment system, officials with the Bureau of the Fiscal Service disclosed in a series of court filings late Tuesday.
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It's true. From a shortage of Ukrainian troops, Russia is just waiting for total exhaustion from Ukraine, unless NATO is willing to throw in thousands of troops.
FAFO
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Marshall
US aid freeze claims first victims as oxygen supplies cut off
Seventy-one-year-old woman dies after being sent home from USAID funded hospital. Others die after hospitals close in refugee camps
Pe Kha Lau, a refugee from Myanmar living in a displacement camp in neighbouring Thailand, died four days after she was discharged from a USAID-funded healthcare facility operated by the International Rescue Committee (IRC).
She is thought to be one of the first people to have died as a direct result of Washington’s decision to freeze all funding for aid projects for 90 days.
Her family told Reuters that she had frequently been sent to hospital in the last three years as she was dependent on a supply of oxygen, but was sent home after the IRC received a “stop-work” order in late January.
The organisation operates clinics that cater to roughly 80,000 people in nine refugee camps close to the Myanmar border, but abruptly closed and locked seven out of its nine hospitals to comply with the uncompromising US directive. The agency may be subject to an exemption as it offers lifesaving assistance, but it is not yet clear when a waiver could be issued.
Thai authorities are trying to stem some of the gaps, with most patients in critical conditions referred to Thai hospitals and facilities and equipment to Thai health authorities. Meanwhile local people are “self-mobilising” to offer limited care, but it is already too late for Phe Kha Lau.
Within days of leaving the IRC hospital, the 71-year-old was struggling to breathe and asked to return to the facility.
“I had to tell her that there is no hospital,” Yin Yin Aye, her 50-year-old daughter, told Reuters in a teary phone call.
Pe Kha Lau’s son-in law, Tin Win, added that before the closure, “whenever she got short of breath, I would carry her right away back to hospital and she would be fine”.
“We are very poor people,” he said. “I work as a day labourer. We can’t afford oxygen at home.”
Pe Kha Lau is not the only one affected. In Umpiem Mai camp in Thailand, which is home to more than 10,000 people who fled the brutal civil war in neighbouring Myanmar, a resident and a health worker told ABC that multiple patients who were reliant on oxygen have now died.
“The medical workers left without even taking the equipment and the patients had to return to their homes, including some who had to be carried out,” said Sulaiman Mawlawi, a camp resident. “It was a very tragic moment for us.”
There are also reports of refugees giving birth in former school buildings after the hospital closures.
A complicated conflict has been raging in Myanmar since the military seized power four years ago. Almost a third of the population is now reliant on humanitarian aid, while at least 3.5 million have been internally displaced since February 2021. Hundreds of thousands more have fled the country, including into neighbouring Thailand.
‘Numerous avoidable deaths’
Although Asia is not the biggest recipient of US aid – of the $60 billion in foreign assistance that was frozen by the Trump administration, roughly $3.9 billion is spent in South and Central Asia, and $2.1 billion in East Asia and Oceania – the freeze has hit Myanmar especially hard.
America spends around $200 million a year in the country, making it the largest donor, and roughly $40 million goes towards health.
One doctor working inside Myanmar – whose group receives roughly $1.5 million from USAID each year, but who asked not to be named amid concerns it could affect funding in the future – said the sudden halt demonstrates “a total lack of respect for ill people and life”.
“The stopping and then restarting – instead of planning and then deciding what to stop and what to continue – has of course caused numerous avoidable deaths,” he told the Telegraph, adding that he knows of at least seven NGOs that have stopped some activities.
He said that the full ramifications may take some time to unfold.
“Most of the time you will not see the worst consequences immediately,” the doctor said by email. “If you stop TB or AIDS treatment it can take months, a year before the patient dies. However, the patient’s bacteria or virus might have developed resistance which will make it much more difficult to treat when you re-start.”
Another medic in central Myanmar, a region hard hit by the conflict, said his team have had to pause services because they do not have reserve funds to stem gaps from the USAID freeze. His group receives close to $2 million a year.
“We will lose that amount to save the lives of the people – so it is frustrating for us,” he told the Telegraph, also asking to remain anonymous. “Without the US, we don’t have funds to continue a lot of our work.”
Tom Kean, a Myanmar researcher at the Crisis Group thinktank, said that although “life-saving humanitarian assistance” is supposed to be exempt – as well as efforts to tackle diseases such as malaria, newborn deaths and malnutrition – many of these programmes are still waiting for confirmation they can continue.
“Without confirmation, they risk incurring expenses that USAID then refuses to reimburse – a risk they literally can’t afford to take,” he said. “It’s also very unclear at this stage whether the programmes that have definitely been suspended pending review – those that are not providing “life-saving humanitarian assistance” – will be allowed to resume or cancelled.”
He added that USAID’s partners, who implement programmes on the ground, and their beneficiaries have been left in a “terrible position” as the chaos continues.
“There’s nothing wrong with a review of aid spending – this happens regularly. But existing programming should have been allowed to continue while the review is carried out.”
The IRC told the Telegraph: “To hear of this loss of life is devastating and we offer our condolences to the family and friends of Pe Kha Lau.”
Seventy-one-year-old woman dies after being sent home from USAID funded hospital. Others die after hospitals close in refugee camps
Pe Kha Lau, a refugee from Myanmar living in a displacement camp in neighbouring Thailand, died four days after she was discharged from a USAID-funded healthcare facility operated by the International Rescue Committee (IRC).
She is thought to be one of the first people to have died as a direct result of Washington’s decision to freeze all funding for aid projects for 90 days.
Her family told Reuters that she had frequently been sent to hospital in the last three years as she was dependent on a supply of oxygen, but was sent home after the IRC received a “stop-work” order in late January.
The organisation operates clinics that cater to roughly 80,000 people in nine refugee camps close to the Myanmar border, but abruptly closed and locked seven out of its nine hospitals to comply with the uncompromising US directive. The agency may be subject to an exemption as it offers lifesaving assistance, but it is not yet clear when a waiver could be issued.
Thai authorities are trying to stem some of the gaps, with most patients in critical conditions referred to Thai hospitals and facilities and equipment to Thai health authorities. Meanwhile local people are “self-mobilising” to offer limited care, but it is already too late for Phe Kha Lau.
Within days of leaving the IRC hospital, the 71-year-old was struggling to breathe and asked to return to the facility.
“I had to tell her that there is no hospital,” Yin Yin Aye, her 50-year-old daughter, told Reuters in a teary phone call.
Pe Kha Lau’s son-in law, Tin Win, added that before the closure, “whenever she got short of breath, I would carry her right away back to hospital and she would be fine”.
“We are very poor people,” he said. “I work as a day labourer. We can’t afford oxygen at home.”
Pe Kha Lau is not the only one affected. In Umpiem Mai camp in Thailand, which is home to more than 10,000 people who fled the brutal civil war in neighbouring Myanmar, a resident and a health worker told ABC that multiple patients who were reliant on oxygen have now died.
“The medical workers left without even taking the equipment and the patients had to return to their homes, including some who had to be carried out,” said Sulaiman Mawlawi, a camp resident. “It was a very tragic moment for us.”
There are also reports of refugees giving birth in former school buildings after the hospital closures.
A complicated conflict has been raging in Myanmar since the military seized power four years ago. Almost a third of the population is now reliant on humanitarian aid, while at least 3.5 million have been internally displaced since February 2021. Hundreds of thousands more have fled the country, including into neighbouring Thailand.
‘Numerous avoidable deaths’
Although Asia is not the biggest recipient of US aid – of the $60 billion in foreign assistance that was frozen by the Trump administration, roughly $3.9 billion is spent in South and Central Asia, and $2.1 billion in East Asia and Oceania – the freeze has hit Myanmar especially hard.
America spends around $200 million a year in the country, making it the largest donor, and roughly $40 million goes towards health.
One doctor working inside Myanmar – whose group receives roughly $1.5 million from USAID each year, but who asked not to be named amid concerns it could affect funding in the future – said the sudden halt demonstrates “a total lack of respect for ill people and life”.
“The stopping and then restarting – instead of planning and then deciding what to stop and what to continue – has of course caused numerous avoidable deaths,” he told the Telegraph, adding that he knows of at least seven NGOs that have stopped some activities.
He said that the full ramifications may take some time to unfold.
“Most of the time you will not see the worst consequences immediately,” the doctor said by email. “If you stop TB or AIDS treatment it can take months, a year before the patient dies. However, the patient’s bacteria or virus might have developed resistance which will make it much more difficult to treat when you re-start.”
Another medic in central Myanmar, a region hard hit by the conflict, said his team have had to pause services because they do not have reserve funds to stem gaps from the USAID freeze. His group receives close to $2 million a year.
“We will lose that amount to save the lives of the people – so it is frustrating for us,” he told the Telegraph, also asking to remain anonymous. “Without the US, we don’t have funds to continue a lot of our work.”
Tom Kean, a Myanmar researcher at the Crisis Group thinktank, said that although “life-saving humanitarian assistance” is supposed to be exempt – as well as efforts to tackle diseases such as malaria, newborn deaths and malnutrition – many of these programmes are still waiting for confirmation they can continue.
“Without confirmation, they risk incurring expenses that USAID then refuses to reimburse – a risk they literally can’t afford to take,” he said. “It’s also very unclear at this stage whether the programmes that have definitely been suspended pending review – those that are not providing “life-saving humanitarian assistance” – will be allowed to resume or cancelled.”
He added that USAID’s partners, who implement programmes on the ground, and their beneficiaries have been left in a “terrible position” as the chaos continues.
“There’s nothing wrong with a review of aid spending – this happens regularly. But existing programming should have been allowed to continue while the review is carried out.”
The IRC told the Telegraph: “To hear of this loss of life is devastating and we offer our condolences to the family and friends of Pe Kha Lau.”
Lying and accepting zero responsibility for anything even remotely bad is the MAGA way. Wash, rinse, repeat 10,000 times in unison.They’ll eat it up like manna from heaven. Can’t wait till he and his credit sucking toadies claim infrastructure improvements NOT made by Republicans but an incoherent stuttering old fool. I’m sure they have already
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COLLINS: Which White House official made the decision to bar the AP reporter?
LEAVITT: It is a privilege to cover this WH
C: Isn't this retaliatory?
LEAVITT: It is a fact that the body of water off the coast of Louisiana is called the Gulf of America
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LEAVITT: It is a privilege to cover this WH
C: Isn't this retaliatory?
LEAVITT: It is a fact that the body of water off the coast of Louisiana is called the Gulf of America
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COLLINS: Which White House official made the decision to bar the AP reporter? LEAVITT: It is a privilege to cover this WH C: Isn't this retaliatory? LEAVITT: It is a fact that the body of water off the coast of Louisiana is called the Gulf of America
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THREAD: The quick shutdown of USAID abandoned patients with experimental devices and drugs in their bodies with no way to remove them in time.
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Abandoned in the Middle of Clinical Trials, Because of a Trump Order
The stop-work order on U.S.A.I.D.-funded research has left thousands of people with experimental drugs and devices in their bodies, with no access to monitoring or care.
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Sheriff
I can be petty right back...I will always call it Gulf of Mexico...suck it...LOLCOLLINS: Which White House official made the decision to bar the AP reporter?
LEAVITT: It is a privilege to cover this WH
C: Isn't this retaliatory?
LEAVITT: It is a fact that the body of water off the coast of Louisiana is called the Gulf of America
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COLLINS: Which White House official made the decision to bar the AP reporter? LEAVITT: It is a privilege to cover this WH C: Isn't this retaliatory? LEAVITT: It is a fact that the body of water off the coast of Louisiana is called the Gulf of America
Stillwater Townie
Ranger
At least Mexico can be happy it wasn't renamed the Gulf of USA.
In case you’re having trouble keeping up, here’s a summary . . .
Trump: I am cutting wasteful spending by our Government.
Democrats: IMPEACH HIM! We told you that Trump would be a dictator on day 1!!
Elon: We are $36 Trillion in debt, let’s find ways to cut Government spending.
Democrats: NO ONE VOTED FOR ELON MUSK!
RFK Jr.: I want to make America Healthy Again!
Democrats: WHAT!?! Noooo!!! You can’t do that!!
Trump: I will be putting a 25% Tariff on Mexico and Canada for refusing to work with America to stop the trafficking of deadly drugs coming into our Country.
Democrats: WTF!! Americans will now have to pay higher prices for Avocados and Coronas.
Tulsi: We should discuss the U.S. DoD funded bio labs in Ukraine.
Democrats: OH!! HELL NO! Tulsi is Putin’s puppet!!
Trump: I am deporting criminals who are in our Country illegally.
Democrats: Ummm?!?! Who will pick our crops????
RFK Jr.: I want to put an end to the rise of Chronic Diseases in children.
Democrats: Hey, dummy…that is literally Big Pharma’s job!!
Trump: We should look into ending all Incomes taxes on tips, overtime and social security.
Democrats: WTF!! What about egg prices?!?
Elon: We should investigate how members of Congress making low end 6-figure salaries become multi-millionaires.
Democrats: PANIC!! Billionaire Musk will have access to your home address and social security number!
Hegseth: We shouldn’t spend billions protecting foreign borders, while completely ignoring our own.
Democrats: WHAT ABOUT EGG PRICES?!?
RFK Jr.: We need to ban toxic dyes and bring awareness to the negative impacts on Fluoride in our water.
Democrats: SOMEONE, STOP HIM!! He is a crazy conspiracy theorist!!!
Trump: I am protecting women’s sports by signing an Executive Order to ban biological males from biological female’s sports.
Democrats: HORRIBLE!!! Only evil people would do such awful things to transgender women!!!
Elon: Should we audit the IRS next?
Democrats: The Rocket Scientist is, like, the dumbest billionaire, like, ever!
Trump: I am cutting wasteful spending by our Government.
Democrats: IMPEACH HIM! We told you that Trump would be a dictator on day 1!!
Elon: We are $36 Trillion in debt, let’s find ways to cut Government spending.
Democrats: NO ONE VOTED FOR ELON MUSK!
RFK Jr.: I want to make America Healthy Again!
Democrats: WHAT!?! Noooo!!! You can’t do that!!
Trump: I will be putting a 25% Tariff on Mexico and Canada for refusing to work with America to stop the trafficking of deadly drugs coming into our Country.
Democrats: WTF!! Americans will now have to pay higher prices for Avocados and Coronas.
Tulsi: We should discuss the U.S. DoD funded bio labs in Ukraine.
Democrats: OH!! HELL NO! Tulsi is Putin’s puppet!!
Trump: I am deporting criminals who are in our Country illegally.
Democrats: Ummm?!?! Who will pick our crops????
RFK Jr.: I want to put an end to the rise of Chronic Diseases in children.
Democrats: Hey, dummy…that is literally Big Pharma’s job!!
Trump: We should look into ending all Incomes taxes on tips, overtime and social security.
Democrats: WTF!! What about egg prices?!?
Elon: We should investigate how members of Congress making low end 6-figure salaries become multi-millionaires.
Democrats: PANIC!! Billionaire Musk will have access to your home address and social security number!
Hegseth: We shouldn’t spend billions protecting foreign borders, while completely ignoring our own.
Democrats: WHAT ABOUT EGG PRICES?!?
RFK Jr.: We need to ban toxic dyes and bring awareness to the negative impacts on Fluoride in our water.
Democrats: SOMEONE, STOP HIM!! He is a crazy conspiracy theorist!!!
Trump: I am protecting women’s sports by signing an Executive Order to ban biological males from biological female’s sports.
Democrats: HORRIBLE!!! Only evil people would do such awful things to transgender women!!!
Elon: Should we audit the IRS next?
Democrats: The Rocket Scientist is, like, the dumbest billionaire, like, ever!
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