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On the one-month anniversary of Donald Trump’s inauguration earlier this year, a group of his appointed aides gathered to celebrate.

For four weeks, they had been working overtime to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development, freezing thousands of programs, including ones that provided food, water and medicine around the world. They’d culled USAID’s staff and abandoned its former headquarters in the stately Ronald Reagan Building, shunting the remnants of the agency to what was once an overflow space in a glass-walled commercial office above Nordstrom Rack and a bank.

There, the crew of newly minted political figures told the office manager to create a moat of 90 empty desks around them so no one could hear them talk. They ignored questions and advice from career staff with decades of experience in the field.

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[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 38 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

But not rich people, which is all that matters for the Trump administration.
Trump is cutting aid to the poor every way he can, no amount saved is to petty, and no amount of human suffering is to high.
That's the ultimate Republican way, and the majority of Americans support it until it hits themselves.
Because USA has become a society where sociopathy is celebrated as the ultimate expression of freedom.
But the joke is on them, because the tax cuts they think they too will benefit from, are designed to benefit the 1% the most.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

But not rich people, which is all that matters for the Trump administration.

Oh, no. Poor people matter to them too. Especially when they're suffering and dying. MAGAts love that almost as much as making the rich richer.