The state of Idaho has been purchased by the far right rage machine. All they are concerned with is the banning of books and not allowing women control of their own bodies. Now our Governor do- Little has surrendered to the religious fundamentalist. Good bye Idaho Constitution.
I love Jim Jones’s no-nonsense columns. This one is no exception.
But I sighed in dismay when I read, “The people have to get engaged,…”. And that’s where the trouble lies.
Too many people are barely informed, misinformed, or just plain ignorant about civics in this country. How many can’t name their district’s state legislators? Or worse, how many can’t even find the US on a world map? How do you start explaining issues to people who voted for trump when they’re saying, “Oh, he’s not really going to (fill in the blank)” at the same time that trump’s doing it? Or, “Oh! I thought he was only going to (fill in the blank) when he previously bellowed out his intentions in every campaign speech?
I have gotten so tired of hearing the Trump is evil, bla bla bla..TIRED OF YOU SELF RIGHTEOUS brainwashed idiots. Everything you think is wrong. Is this Idaho? You people would change Idaho into California, same as what you did in Colorado and Texas. In case you don't know, trump won something called the election. I don't give a rats ass what happens to Ukraine, Mexico, Palestine, especially the European Union. It IS TIME they took care of themselves. Most of you have no idea what happened in Ukraine before Russia invaded, how corrupt it was and how part of it was overrun by Natzi separatists, and how the CIA cause a color revolution and got rid of the legally elected by the people government in Ukraine. No you all were too busy feeding Hunter and Joe Biden millions of tax payer dollars.
I'd say, leave Europe to the Europeans but you lefties cant even get that right either. Europe is full of North African Muslims Same as we are full of poor and criminal Mexicans and south Americans. Its an honor to come here to this country, just ask my wife who did it the hard way, legally. She would die for this country, fight for it, not rip it off and rape the women. Your liberal crap is what we are trying to turn around now, you fools.
I will not Give up My Voice in Fighting against a RUSSIAN Play book of Events Currently happening with this Group in Idaho and Washington D C. Like Jim Jones, Serving the USA, I was in the Marine Corps in 1971-1972, a Disabled Marine Veteran, I do not Trust the RUSSIANS, They are More allied with Chinese Communists and they are getting Military Soldiers from Communist North Korea. Trump is a DIC-TRAITOR, to the USA and its ALLIES, in My Opinion; and so far I am not Jailed for that Voice, But I do not TRUST Idaho's 4 Elected to aide me when the Trump Forces, FBI,ICE, ATF, Idaho's State County, City Law enforcement start Arresting NON LOYALISTS to D J T and his Oligarchic Regime, Not to mention his Wannabe "RULER for LIFE" Pursuit.
Risch, Simpson and Crapo all refused to say no when a journalist polled all members of congress asking “Did Russia invade Ukraine”. Little vetoed the Ed bill upon Trumps request. They’re all owned by Trump. They have no backbone & need voted out.
March 2nd 2025, Rep Mike Simpsons reply, a Standard, what i call a Placation, to patron,
The Simpson Standard
March 2nd, 2025
Dear Mr. Bunt,
It is March! And Congress is marching forward and getting critical work done in DC. This week, the House passed the Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Resolution. I am encouraged that House Republicans have taken the first crucial step in this reconciliation process, laying the groundwork for ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ to enact President Trump’s FULL agenda. It was an honor to preside over the House for this vote!
It was also a busy week for the House Interior and Environment Appropriations Subcommittee, which I chair. We held multi-day hearings that brought together Tribal members from across the nation to testify on issues and policy priorities. It was an honor to welcome all the distinguished Tribal elders and leaders.
It's time to axe the death tax! This punishing and burdensome estate tax has crushed Idaho family farms, ranches, and small businesses for too long. I am pleased to announce that I have recently cosponsored the Death Tax Repeal Act, legislation that would repeal the death tax and protect Idahoans from devastating tax hikes.
Laying the Groundwork for
‘One Big Beautiful Bill’
The House Republican Budget Resolution lays out a path to advance President Trump's full America First policy agenda by:
Securing our border
Restoring American energy independence
Strengthening America's military
Preventing tax hikes
The American people gave House Republicans a powerful mandate on all these issues, and now it's time to deliver results and get our nation back on track. Read my full statement here.
Image
Tribal Public Witness Hearings
The House Interior and Environment Appropriations Subcommittee spent Tuesday through Thursday listening to Tribes from around the nation and some of the issues they face. We deeply appreciated the opportunity to hear directly from numerous Tribes and Tribal organizations across Indian Country.
These hearings are incredibly important. Indian Country has been and will continue to be a bipartisan priority for this subcommittee. You can read more about these hearings here.
It's Time to Axe the Death Tax!
I am proud to cosponsor the Death Tax Repeal Act, which would repeal the punishing and burdensome death tax. This critical bill will support Idaho's multi-generational farms and small businesses, grow the economy, and protect Idahoans from devastating tax hikes.
Sorry, I can't like that statement from Simpson. He's an extreme disappointment. What a 180° flipflop (very Lindsey Graham-like) from his promoting the removal of the lower snake dams to supporting a president intent on ravaging our forests, public lands, and the small communities who rely on the visitors to those lands.
I come across this while reinvestigating the infamous jim jones of the peoples temple. Searching for evidence linking his 1000 person party to the kgb because i keep hearing he was workibg with CiA. Anyways interesting viewpoints expressed here. Personally i think once kgb always kgb hence the short little puppet Putin whom i certainly would love to know more perfectly what he is but for now his parents and grandparents history along with what unspeakable horrors, destruction of everything the "russian" people identified with and i mean russian as in blood cousins of the german, english people who were Christian knowing thete history enough and the mass murder and how many generations where their womab raped while imprisoned and their childreb taken at birth and raised by a soviet state its unimageable for me that those beahtiful people gained there lifes and nation back without some external savior what we should have done instead of murdering germans and trump his daddy gave away a nice chunk of land to those leaving europe of the same loyalty as thise who caused the fall of Russia im not going to call them Jews because i think it is more complicated than that for they claim something they are not so how did he earn his money? Intersting what little i have learned if any of you could point me to a national or in our case federal or even state leader who is not completely owned by those who control international finance how is it that the entire worlds politics looks like a staged act? I will reread thus article when i havr more time if anyone has information they can share i will look into it i mean to understand whats going on because it doesnt make sense and i fear my lord if i have no answers for my children i am also open to helping with the civic struggle in this area since i ser your peoples little treasure valley being transformed and the spirit of it that is and was those of you who made this place is being squeezed out and replaced at the same time. Its happening everywhere i have been all over these states of the union you can find distinct cultures of american people but they are all under attack i dont know what book burnings have gone on nor do i understand what you mean by woman having control over there bodies or far right rage machines cause the woman of this state have cobtrol over there bodies if they assert themselves but you pretend murdering a baby is control over a womans body no abortion is a degenerate word first control over your body is making babies when you mean too by having sex pyrposefuly fully committed and educated with a plan of how tiubwill raise this wonderful new being that is not part of your body that child is not from you it is caused by a man and a womans dna being joined to form a distinct new set of dna that is neither im done ranting im always open to be corrected and help some of you be corrected a woman who is not in control of her body has sexual intercourse recklessly and then because she and he and even sometimes when he wants the baby she can choose to murder a living feeling new human life how can you even justify this you have no right to complain about any incpnvenience in your life especially who is president id you think you are going to continue advocating for murder of our children while you probably invite immigrnts to replace them im listening to jim jones right now they drinking the coolaid and those of you pushing abortion as healthcare are seriously more demented than he was atleast he didnt hide behind fake words and lies like yiur protecting the womans rights or he safety because those are lies millions of babies no choice they didnt drink no cool aid or kill themselves people asked someone callijg himself a doctor or herself because of people like you there is 100s of billions of profit to be made its not unlawful to abort for rape, incest or the saftey of tge mother but 99.9 are done without lawful authority and are in fact murder and you devils want to call it healthcare i suppose yiur idea of morality is if it feels good and no one gets hurt or well atleast if no one finds out about it its ok well its not i think it was forbes they estimated our total debt has been increased by many trillions just by those would be tax paying working citizens never having had a chance to cry laugh be touched noticed just absolutely hideous lets see what happens to this message. See you at your next fake little march hiding behind womens rights when in fact you want a license to use tax dollar and healthcare money to make baby murders rich and decieve young confused woman into not only stealing their fellow citizens hard earned money to pay for the murder of a life that would have brought happiness and meaning to many more but you want the license to FORCE at the barrel of a gun me and many others to give our labor up to support what we would rather die than actually take part in doing anyobe who is stupid enough to go along with this has no right to be represented by anyone involved in government you wont speak for those that cannot you who call it womans right are tyrants and those who go along with it are mentally incapable of understanding right from wrong and that is why you let tyrants do your thinking for you no sifferent than jim jones wooo have fun with it no one else is saying it gnight and grow up people your state is under spiritual attack and your allowing your children to taught that its ok to not only not stand up for the weak but its normal to snuff out the innocent for convenience sake
Lost ass: yesterday in the vicinity of the New York stock exchange . Suspect last seen raising a giant chainsaw and muttering incoherently and making puttering noise! Anyone seeing suspect, send him back where he came from via Guantanamo Bay where he belongs!
I highly doubt Trump will give up Ukraine. He is certainly a narcissist and a megalomaniac, but he isn't an idiot. Allowing Russia to conquer Ukraine would be extremely embarrassing to his administration, and contrary to the opinion of many, he just isn't that stupid.
I have Contacted Our Representatives / Senators, This is a Copy of the Response From Sen Crapo,
February 28, 2025
Steven L Bunt
27864 Emmett Rd
Caldwell, ID 83607-7503
Dear Steven:
Thank you for contacting me regarding the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). I welcome the opportunity to respond.
On November 12, 2024, President Trump announced that he would create a Department of Government Efficiency to reduce wasteful spending, remove excessive and redundant regulations, tackle our nation’s growing national debt and address irresponsible government bureaucracy. On January 20, 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order (EO) titled “Establishing and Implementing the President’s ‘Department of Government Efficiency.’” T his EO reorganized and renamed the United States Digital Service - established in 2014 to streamline and address inefficiencies in government technology work - to the United States DOGE Service (USDS). Additionally, the EO established the U.S. DOGE Service Temporary Organization (USDSTO) within USDS to advance the President’s DOGE agenda. The USDSTO will sunset on July 4, 2026.
The White House has designated Musk a “special government employee” with temporary appointment to his role at DOGE. Special government employee (SGE) designations have been used since 1962, when it was created by Congress (18 U.S.C. § 202), during the Kennedy administration. The intention is to provide the government with specialized expertise that is not available within the current government employees. U.S. Code further describes the SGE position as an officer or employee who is retained, designated, appointed, or employed by the government to perform temporary duties, with or without compensation, for not more than 130 days during any period of 365 consecutive days. SGEs have been used for decades in a variety of roles for the federal government. For example, a Reserve office of the Armed Forces or an officer of the National Guard who is serving involuntarily, would be classified as an SGE. You may find the specific U.S. Code concerning special government employees at the link below:
The Trump Administration has been clear that it is focused on rooting out waste, fraud and abuse across government agencies, and I applaud its efforts to maximize government efficiency and productivity. I will continue to keep your privacy in mind and monitor any information accessed by DOGE.
To your next point, President Trump has issued a number of EOs to re-evaluate the United States’ administration of foreign aid, which includes temporary freezes on a wide array of USAID funds and placement of leave for all direct hire personnel. Currently, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is serving as the acting administrator of USAID. The U.S. Department of State will be consulting with Congress to reorganize and absorb certain bureaus, offices and missions of USAID, but there has been no indication by the Administration that overall aid programs will be eliminated in their entirety.
Unfortunately, it has become clear there are a number of activities involving international aid efforts in its current form that are not in keeping with the stated goals of such aid. The primary concerns stem from unchecked aid ending up in the hands of adversarial nations and groups, as well as programs that do not align with American values. The Trump Administration has rightfully taken a responsible look at our spending practices while ensuring that programs that work well continue to succeed.
Overall, I agree the U.S. should continue humanitarian efforts around the world, aiding those in crisis and helping people improve their communities while guaranteeing our national goals, ideals and security. To that end, it is important that the U.S. continues to ensure these programs are effective, efficient and accountable, creating the greatest benefit for the greatest number of people, while also working to promote self-sufficiency rather than reliance on aid in foreign countries and providing that our government is living within its means. I will keep your thoughts in mind as I continue to monitor the findings of the audit into our nation’s foreign aid practices.
Again, thank you for contacting me. I appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughtful observations with me as it is essential for me to know of the concerns of all Idahoans. Please feel free to contact me in the future on matters of interest to you. You can also find more information about what is going on in the U.S. Senate as well as news releases, photos and other items at my Senate website, https://www.crapo.senate.gov .
The state of Idaho has been purchased by the far right rage machine. All they are concerned with is the banning of books and not allowing women control of their own bodies. Now our Governor do- Little has surrendered to the religious fundamentalist. Good bye Idaho Constitution.
I agree. Constituents should matter more than a tweet from Dump
I love Jim Jones’s no-nonsense columns. This one is no exception.
But I sighed in dismay when I read, “The people have to get engaged,…”. And that’s where the trouble lies.
Too many people are barely informed, misinformed, or just plain ignorant about civics in this country. How many can’t name their district’s state legislators? Or worse, how many can’t even find the US on a world map? How do you start explaining issues to people who voted for trump when they’re saying, “Oh, he’s not really going to (fill in the blank)” at the same time that trump’s doing it? Or, “Oh! I thought he was only going to (fill in the blank) when he previously bellowed out his intentions in every campaign speech?
Where do you start?
I have gotten so tired of hearing the Trump is evil, bla bla bla..TIRED OF YOU SELF RIGHTEOUS brainwashed idiots. Everything you think is wrong. Is this Idaho? You people would change Idaho into California, same as what you did in Colorado and Texas. In case you don't know, trump won something called the election. I don't give a rats ass what happens to Ukraine, Mexico, Palestine, especially the European Union. It IS TIME they took care of themselves. Most of you have no idea what happened in Ukraine before Russia invaded, how corrupt it was and how part of it was overrun by Natzi separatists, and how the CIA cause a color revolution and got rid of the legally elected by the people government in Ukraine. No you all were too busy feeding Hunter and Joe Biden millions of tax payer dollars.
I'd say, leave Europe to the Europeans but you lefties cant even get that right either. Europe is full of North African Muslims Same as we are full of poor and criminal Mexicans and south Americans. Its an honor to come here to this country, just ask my wife who did it the hard way, legally. She would die for this country, fight for it, not rip it off and rape the women. Your liberal crap is what we are trying to turn around now, you fools.
Wow!
I will not Give up My Voice in Fighting against a RUSSIAN Play book of Events Currently happening with this Group in Idaho and Washington D C. Like Jim Jones, Serving the USA, I was in the Marine Corps in 1971-1972, a Disabled Marine Veteran, I do not Trust the RUSSIANS, They are More allied with Chinese Communists and they are getting Military Soldiers from Communist North Korea. Trump is a DIC-TRAITOR, to the USA and its ALLIES, in My Opinion; and so far I am not Jailed for that Voice, But I do not TRUST Idaho's 4 Elected to aide me when the Trump Forces, FBI,ICE, ATF, Idaho's State County, City Law enforcement start Arresting NON LOYALISTS to D J T and his Oligarchic Regime, Not to mention his Wannabe "RULER for LIFE" Pursuit.
Risch, Simpson and Crapo all refused to say no when a journalist polled all members of congress asking “Did Russia invade Ukraine”. Little vetoed the Ed bill upon Trumps request. They’re all owned by Trump. They have no backbone & need voted out.
March 2nd 2025, Rep Mike Simpsons reply, a Standard, what i call a Placation, to patron,
The Simpson Standard
March 2nd, 2025
Dear Mr. Bunt,
It is March! And Congress is marching forward and getting critical work done in DC. This week, the House passed the Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Resolution. I am encouraged that House Republicans have taken the first crucial step in this reconciliation process, laying the groundwork for ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ to enact President Trump’s FULL agenda. It was an honor to preside over the House for this vote!
It was also a busy week for the House Interior and Environment Appropriations Subcommittee, which I chair. We held multi-day hearings that brought together Tribal members from across the nation to testify on issues and policy priorities. It was an honor to welcome all the distinguished Tribal elders and leaders.
It's time to axe the death tax! This punishing and burdensome estate tax has crushed Idaho family farms, ranches, and small businesses for too long. I am pleased to announce that I have recently cosponsored the Death Tax Repeal Act, legislation that would repeal the death tax and protect Idahoans from devastating tax hikes.
Laying the Groundwork for
‘One Big Beautiful Bill’
The House Republican Budget Resolution lays out a path to advance President Trump's full America First policy agenda by:
Securing our border
Restoring American energy independence
Strengthening America's military
Preventing tax hikes
The American people gave House Republicans a powerful mandate on all these issues, and now it's time to deliver results and get our nation back on track. Read my full statement here.
Image
Tribal Public Witness Hearings
The House Interior and Environment Appropriations Subcommittee spent Tuesday through Thursday listening to Tribes from around the nation and some of the issues they face. We deeply appreciated the opportunity to hear directly from numerous Tribes and Tribal organizations across Indian Country.
These hearings are incredibly important. Indian Country has been and will continue to be a bipartisan priority for this subcommittee. You can read more about these hearings here.
It's Time to Axe the Death Tax!
I am proud to cosponsor the Death Tax Repeal Act, which would repeal the punishing and burdensome death tax. This critical bill will support Idaho's multi-generational farms and small businesses, grow the economy, and protect Idahoans from devastating tax hikes.
Read more about this bill here.
Sorry, I can't like that statement from Simpson. He's an extreme disappointment. What a 180° flipflop (very Lindsey Graham-like) from his promoting the removal of the lower snake dams to supporting a president intent on ravaging our forests, public lands, and the small communities who rely on the visitors to those lands.
I come across this while reinvestigating the infamous jim jones of the peoples temple. Searching for evidence linking his 1000 person party to the kgb because i keep hearing he was workibg with CiA. Anyways interesting viewpoints expressed here. Personally i think once kgb always kgb hence the short little puppet Putin whom i certainly would love to know more perfectly what he is but for now his parents and grandparents history along with what unspeakable horrors, destruction of everything the "russian" people identified with and i mean russian as in blood cousins of the german, english people who were Christian knowing thete history enough and the mass murder and how many generations where their womab raped while imprisoned and their childreb taken at birth and raised by a soviet state its unimageable for me that those beahtiful people gained there lifes and nation back without some external savior what we should have done instead of murdering germans and trump his daddy gave away a nice chunk of land to those leaving europe of the same loyalty as thise who caused the fall of Russia im not going to call them Jews because i think it is more complicated than that for they claim something they are not so how did he earn his money? Intersting what little i have learned if any of you could point me to a national or in our case federal or even state leader who is not completely owned by those who control international finance how is it that the entire worlds politics looks like a staged act? I will reread thus article when i havr more time if anyone has information they can share i will look into it i mean to understand whats going on because it doesnt make sense and i fear my lord if i have no answers for my children i am also open to helping with the civic struggle in this area since i ser your peoples little treasure valley being transformed and the spirit of it that is and was those of you who made this place is being squeezed out and replaced at the same time. Its happening everywhere i have been all over these states of the union you can find distinct cultures of american people but they are all under attack i dont know what book burnings have gone on nor do i understand what you mean by woman having control over there bodies or far right rage machines cause the woman of this state have cobtrol over there bodies if they assert themselves but you pretend murdering a baby is control over a womans body no abortion is a degenerate word first control over your body is making babies when you mean too by having sex pyrposefuly fully committed and educated with a plan of how tiubwill raise this wonderful new being that is not part of your body that child is not from you it is caused by a man and a womans dna being joined to form a distinct new set of dna that is neither im done ranting im always open to be corrected and help some of you be corrected a woman who is not in control of her body has sexual intercourse recklessly and then because she and he and even sometimes when he wants the baby she can choose to murder a living feeling new human life how can you even justify this you have no right to complain about any incpnvenience in your life especially who is president id you think you are going to continue advocating for murder of our children while you probably invite immigrnts to replace them im listening to jim jones right now they drinking the coolaid and those of you pushing abortion as healthcare are seriously more demented than he was atleast he didnt hide behind fake words and lies like yiur protecting the womans rights or he safety because those are lies millions of babies no choice they didnt drink no cool aid or kill themselves people asked someone callijg himself a doctor or herself because of people like you there is 100s of billions of profit to be made its not unlawful to abort for rape, incest or the saftey of tge mother but 99.9 are done without lawful authority and are in fact murder and you devils want to call it healthcare i suppose yiur idea of morality is if it feels good and no one gets hurt or well atleast if no one finds out about it its ok well its not i think it was forbes they estimated our total debt has been increased by many trillions just by those would be tax paying working citizens never having had a chance to cry laugh be touched noticed just absolutely hideous lets see what happens to this message. See you at your next fake little march hiding behind womens rights when in fact you want a license to use tax dollar and healthcare money to make baby murders rich and decieve young confused woman into not only stealing their fellow citizens hard earned money to pay for the murder of a life that would have brought happiness and meaning to many more but you want the license to FORCE at the barrel of a gun me and many others to give our labor up to support what we would rather die than actually take part in doing anyobe who is stupid enough to go along with this has no right to be represented by anyone involved in government you wont speak for those that cannot you who call it womans right are tyrants and those who go along with it are mentally incapable of understanding right from wrong and that is why you let tyrants do your thinking for you no sifferent than jim jones wooo have fun with it no one else is saying it gnight and grow up people your state is under spiritual attack and your allowing your children to taught that its ok to not only not stand up for the weak but its normal to snuff out the innocent for convenience sake
Lost ass: yesterday in the vicinity of the New York stock exchange . Suspect last seen raising a giant chainsaw and muttering incoherently and making puttering noise! Anyone seeing suspect, send him back where he came from via Guantanamo Bay where he belongs!
I highly doubt Trump will give up Ukraine. He is certainly a narcissist and a megalomaniac, but he isn't an idiot. Allowing Russia to conquer Ukraine would be extremely embarrassing to his administration, and contrary to the opinion of many, he just isn't that stupid.
Thank you Jim Jones!!!
I have Contacted Our Representatives / Senators, This is a Copy of the Response From Sen Crapo,
February 28, 2025
Steven L Bunt
27864 Emmett Rd
Caldwell, ID 83607-7503
Dear Steven:
Thank you for contacting me regarding the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). I welcome the opportunity to respond.
On November 12, 2024, President Trump announced that he would create a Department of Government Efficiency to reduce wasteful spending, remove excessive and redundant regulations, tackle our nation’s growing national debt and address irresponsible government bureaucracy. On January 20, 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order (EO) titled “Establishing and Implementing the President’s ‘Department of Government Efficiency.’” T his EO reorganized and renamed the United States Digital Service - established in 2014 to streamline and address inefficiencies in government technology work - to the United States DOGE Service (USDS). Additionally, the EO established the U.S. DOGE Service Temporary Organization (USDSTO) within USDS to advance the President’s DOGE agenda. The USDSTO will sunset on July 4, 2026.
The White House has designated Musk a “special government employee” with temporary appointment to his role at DOGE. Special government employee (SGE) designations have been used since 1962, when it was created by Congress (18 U.S.C. § 202), during the Kennedy administration. The intention is to provide the government with specialized expertise that is not available within the current government employees. U.S. Code further describes the SGE position as an officer or employee who is retained, designated, appointed, or employed by the government to perform temporary duties, with or without compensation, for not more than 130 days during any period of 365 consecutive days. SGEs have been used for decades in a variety of roles for the federal government. For example, a Reserve office of the Armed Forces or an officer of the National Guard who is serving involuntarily, would be classified as an SGE. You may find the specific U.S. Code concerning special government employees at the link below:
https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title18-section202&num=0&edition=prelim
The Trump Administration has been clear that it is focused on rooting out waste, fraud and abuse across government agencies, and I applaud its efforts to maximize government efficiency and productivity. I will continue to keep your privacy in mind and monitor any information accessed by DOGE.
To your next point, President Trump has issued a number of EOs to re-evaluate the United States’ administration of foreign aid, which includes temporary freezes on a wide array of USAID funds and placement of leave for all direct hire personnel. Currently, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is serving as the acting administrator of USAID. The U.S. Department of State will be consulting with Congress to reorganize and absorb certain bureaus, offices and missions of USAID, but there has been no indication by the Administration that overall aid programs will be eliminated in their entirety.
Unfortunately, it has become clear there are a number of activities involving international aid efforts in its current form that are not in keeping with the stated goals of such aid. The primary concerns stem from unchecked aid ending up in the hands of adversarial nations and groups, as well as programs that do not align with American values. The Trump Administration has rightfully taken a responsible look at our spending practices while ensuring that programs that work well continue to succeed.
Overall, I agree the U.S. should continue humanitarian efforts around the world, aiding those in crisis and helping people improve their communities while guaranteeing our national goals, ideals and security. To that end, it is important that the U.S. continues to ensure these programs are effective, efficient and accountable, creating the greatest benefit for the greatest number of people, while also working to promote self-sufficiency rather than reliance on aid in foreign countries and providing that our government is living within its means. I will keep your thoughts in mind as I continue to monitor the findings of the audit into our nation’s foreign aid practices.
Again, thank you for contacting me. I appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughtful observations with me as it is essential for me to know of the concerns of all Idahoans. Please feel free to contact me in the future on matters of interest to you. You can also find more information about what is going on in the U.S. Senate as well as news releases, photos and other items at my Senate website, https://www.crapo.senate.gov .
Sincerely,
Mike Crapo
United States Senator
MDC:GA
What a piece of drivel.