Comment by lesuorac

> The “services” here is gender affirming care. What does it mean to “advocate”? Why are my tax dollars being used for this?

You should ask Elon Musk since he brought up the program and has the ability to actually ask people on it what it's about.

It should really be telling that the heads of say USAID have been replaced with politically sympathetic individuals and yet they can't surface any memos or etc that are red flags and instead have to rely on portions of headlines?

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> Dude 350k is a lot of money,

If somebody has a severed artery and also a paper cut you need to ignore the paper cut to repair the artery.

There is a significant amount of time being wasted on saving 0.000000004% of the federal budget. There are straight up 4 solutions to balancing the budget and none of this nickel and dimeing will get close (especially after the next round of Trump tax cuts).

1 - Cut Military

2 - Cut Medicaid / Medicare

3 - Cut Social Security

4 - Raise taxes to pre-Reagan levels

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> It’s easy to be charitable when you’re spending other people’s money.

1) Elon doesn't pay anything in taxes [1] so he really should't have a say in how they're spent.

2) Compromise / Pork Barrel [2] is largely how congress works; you get votes on things you want in exchange for things other people want. Reneging on things congress as a group agreed to later on is bad faith.

3) There hasn't been any evidence provided that the program wasn't authorized by congress or isn't achieving any policy goals.

[1]: https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trov...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pork_barrel