🧵🚨 1/6 You would think that the revelations concerning the State Dept. paying for Trans operas, comic books, and…

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A Congress member criticizes U.S. foreign aid spending, citing numerous examples of allegedly wasteful expenditures on cultural and social programs abroad, and pledges to vote against continuing current foreign aid levels.

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🧵🚨 1/6 You would think that the revelations concerning the State Dept. paying for Trans operas, comic books, and such would shame Congress into reducing foreign aid...
#2
🧵2/6 But watch your Congress person closely. In a matter of days, Congress will vote to continue foreign aid at current levels for another year. What an insult to the American taxpayer.
#3
🧵3/6 In case, you’ve forgotten what lunacy is being funded by foreign aid, here is a reminder: $14M for cash vouchers for illegal migrants $55K for a climate change presentation by female & LGBT journalists IN ARGENTINA!
#4
🧵 4/6 $3M for "Being LGBTQ in the Caribbean" (whatever that means?) $7M for Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) speaker series IN CANADA! $16K for "united and equal queer-feminist discourse" IN ALBANIA!
#5
🧵5/6 $20M for a Sesame Street show IN IRAQ! $87.9M for "drip irrigation system" for Taliban farmers IN AFGHANISTAN!
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🧵 6/6 The list goes on and on and yet most in CONGRESS will vote to continue this waste within days. I WILL NOT!