Trump's attack on USAID is an assault on Americans' safety

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Chris Coons, a Democrat, represents Delaware in the U.S. Senate.

Donald Trump ran for president on a promise that he would keep Americans safe. His effort to defund and destroy the U.S. Agency for International Development shows he has a misguided idea of how to do that.

USAID’s programs, like all our foreign assistance, play a central role in combating extremism, promoting stability and protecting our homeland. Trump plans to sign an executive order that would direct action he is already taking to drastically reduce USAID’s budget and fold it into the State Department. This is an unconstitutional overstepping of our nation’s separation of powers. But even if it is blocked, Trump has already started gutting the agency.

On his first day back in the White House, Trump issued an executive order freezing all foreign assistance for at least 90 days, prompting “stop-work” orders — affecting hundreds of projects around the world — that will weaken U.S. influence. This past weekend, much of USAID’s leadership was furloughed or laid off, some fired for protecting national security secrets from unelected bureaucrats from the Elon Musk-led “Department of Government Efficiency.”

U.S. foreign assistance makes up 1 percent of our federal budget, and this money isn’t charity. It bolsters our security and advances our values. The reckless steps the Trump administration is taking as part of its isolationist “America First” agenda are, simply put, dangerous for Americans. Our foreign assistance and engagement wins us friends around the world, establishes our leadership and, more important, neutralizes distant threats to the United States well before they put our country at risk.

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[Klarkashton]

1. Of course. Look at all the bad shit that happened

To Biden. It all has its roots in shit that trump did. Every goddamn thing. It's all starting again only worse if that's possible.