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Looks like Trump found some wall money

Traveler

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Would do a hell of a lot more for our security than the UN.

http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2017/03/14/report-trump-commands-state-department-to-slash-un-funding-in-half/
 

Steve

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here is a place we could save a few dollars.. let the pudgy dictator starve for a bit.

USA
US Humanitarian Aid Goes to North Korea Despite Nuclear Tensions
January 25, 2017 9:20 PM

WASHINGTON —

The United States has provided $1 million in humanitarian aid to impoverished North Korea, the U.S. State Department said Wednesday.

Despite growing tensions between North Korea and Washington, the U.S. sent the assistance last week on the day before President Donald Trump was sworn in and took over the U.S. government.

Outgoing Secretary of State John Kerry awarded $1 million for North Korea to UNICEF, a U.N. agency, the day before President Donald Trump took office last week.

The State Department confirmed the assistance in an email to VOA and said the funding was destined only for humanitarian assistance. However, a spokesman added that U.S. officials are “currently reviewing last-minute spending approved by the previous administration.”

News of U.S. assistance to North Korea came as a surprise to some officials in Washington and Seoul, since both countries have been increasing pressure on Pyongyang since the communist country conducted multiple nuclear tests last year.

Nuclear standoff affects aid to North

According to a report by Congressional Research Service, the United States provided the North over $1.3 billion in assistance, mostly food aid and energy assistance.

In February 2012, Washington struck a deal with Pyongyang, known as the "Leap Day" agreement, in which the U.S. agreed to resume large-scale food assistance on the condition that the North promise to refrain from further testing nuclear weapons. The agreement was scrapped less than three weeks later, after the North announced a plan to launch a long-range rocket.

that money would buy a few miles of wall....
 

Tam

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One of the first things Trump signed was stop the money going to foreign countries to pay for abortions wasn't it? Take that money and the money they give Planned Parenthood to provide abortions and bet you might get a few more miles built.
 

Tam

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Let's hope Trump starts looking at some of this kind of stuff

The government spends about $100 million every four years to subsidize parties at the political conventions.
The Department of Agriculture spent $2 million to fund an internship program. The program hired one full-time intern.
Last year, $120 million was paid to dead federal employees.
A total of $146 million was paid for federal employees to upgrade their flights to business class.
The government spent $2.6 million to encourage Chinese prostitutes to drink more responsibly.
The Department of Health and Human Services provided an $800,000 subsidy to build and IHop in Washington, D.C.
The National Institutes of Health has given $1.5 million to Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston to study why “three-quarters” of lesbians in the United States are overweight and why most gay males are not.
During 2012, $25,000 of federal money was spent on a promotional tour for the Alabama Watermelon Queen.
The U.S. government spent $505,000 “to promote specialty hair and beauty products for cats and dogs” last year.
NASA spends close to $1 million per year developing a menu of food for a manned mission to Mars even though it is being projected that a manned mission to Mars is still decades away.
Over the past 15 years, a total of approximately $5.25 million has been spent on hair care services for the U.S. Senate.
The U.S. government spent $27 million to teach Moroccans how to design and make pottery in 2012.
During fiscal 2012, the National Science Foundation gave researchers at Purdue University $350,000. They used part of that money to help fund a study that discovered that if golfers imagine that a hole is bigger it will help them with their putting.
A total of $10,000 of U.S. taxpayer money was actually used to purchase talking urinal cakes in Michigan.
Vice President Joe Biden and his staff stopped in Paris for one night back in February. The hotel bill for that one night came to $585,000.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has spent $300,000 to encourage Americans to eat caviar produced in Idaho.
The National Institute of Health recently gave $666,905 to a group of researchers that is conducting a study on the benefits of watching reruns on television.
The National Institute of Health also spent $592,527 on a study that sought to figure out once and for all why chimpanzees throw poop.
The federal government spent $750,000 on a new soccer field for detainees held at Guantanamo Bay.
The IRS spent $60,000 on a film parody of Star Trek and a film parody of Gilligan’s Island.
Last year, the federal government spent $96,000 to buy iPads for kindergarten students in Maine.
The U.S. government spent $200,000 on “a tattoo removal program” in Mission Hills, Calif.
Last year, the government spent just under $1 million posting snippets of poetry in zoos around the country.
The U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research spent $300,000 on a study that concluded the first bird on Earth probably had black feathers.
The federal government spent $75,000 to promote awareness about the role Michigan plays in producing Christmas trees and poinsettias.
 
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