Just noting the irony murdered here by lecturing the board on the efficiencies of the private sector while spending every working moment, of every working week, posting right-wing propaganda from a private sector job.
The other irony to note is that I don't recall any MAGA froth posted here before about a week ago when Elon took his pound of flesh out our national security because his feels are still hurt over the apartheid issue. I mean it's like the right-wing memo got sent out yet again and regurgitated here.
Marco Rubio was actually encouraging the Biden administration to prioritize funding for USAID until he found his higher calling as a Trump sycophant. Now suddenly USAID bad. If lil Marco was so misinformed on foreign policy why was he selected to be Secretary of State?
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/05/politics/kfile-secretary-of-state-marco-rubio-past-support-usaid-foreign-aid/index.html
"But just three years ago, Rubio argued the exact opposite, urging the Biden administration in a 2022 letter to prioritize USAID’s funding as a key tool to “counter the Chinese Communist Party’s expanding global influence.”
A longtime defender of US foreign aid, Rubio pushed back against criticism of the agency in repeated comments uncovered by CNN — defending aid as both vital and a small part of America’s overall fiscal budget.
“We don’t have to give foreign aid. We do so because it furthers our national interest. That’s why we give foreign aid. Now obviously there’s a component to foreign aid that’s humanitarian in scope, and that’s important too,” he said in February 2013.
“Foreign aid as a part of our overall budget is less than 1% of the total amount the US Government spends,” Rubio said in one 2017 speech on the Senate floor. “I promise you it is going to be a lot harder to recruit someone to anti-Americanism and anti-American terrorism if the United States of America is the reason one is even alive today.”
“Anybody who tells you that we can slash foreign aid and that will bring us to balance is lying to you. Foreign aid is less than one percent of our budget. It’s just not true,” he added in August 2019, while speaking to the Forum Club of the Palm Beaches."