Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel reached out to me this evening to ask if we could provide any information that would show harm to the American people in New Mexico, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Maryland, Minnesota, Connecticut, Rhodes Island, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Michigan, as a result of actions t…
So... the bottom line here is that we're not going to hear anything from the State Dept. Just from various people who called in and maybe some reactions from Brian Fonseca... In other words zero useful value. I'll post again if that changes.
Approximately: "We need to do this with transparency. That has never been done before. Billions and billions of dollars have circulated within Washington. Now there will transparency as never before and the forgotten taxpayer will be forgotten no more."
Pete is listing projects that sound bad. Circumcisions. Independent journalists who create radical ideas. Transgender shows that encourage migration in Central America. Something about Johns Hopkins. "There are investments that can be made that have value... We need to articulate that value back to America..."
Brian Fonseca is Director of the Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy and an adjunct professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Florida International University’s (FIU) Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs. He is the founding Executive Director of Cybersecurity@FIU, FIU's university…
Last Friday, I fired off a post on a whim, and - crazy town - it went viral! By Sunday, I had trotted over to revive my old, dead Substack, thinking hmm, maybe I should cross-post this thing. Well, lo and behold, Substack was a whole brand new and exciting world! Since then, my post - on the impacts of the new Trump administration on U.S…
FHI360 is evaluating the economic effects at both the state and congressional district levels from the foreign aid freeze. Their form is making the rounds in the education community. Please feel free to share with your HQ colleagues. docs.google.com/forms/d…
A. Initial Terminations Are Completed With Todays Tranche
They said the administration has concluded the first round of terminations of foreign assistance programs. Projects that were deemed misaligned with current policy priorities were excluded from the formal review process and discontinued outright. This explains why the terminations focused heavily …
