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Who talked about "treaty"? (I'm not talking about NATO, Greenland is already part of it)

A MAGA echo chamber accusing others of being sheeps!

Don't be stupid. It was dropped because the DOJ policy is to not indict a sitting President. Not because the case was without merit. Also note that it's a Trump appointee (Cannon) who allowed the release.

There is not a single line in the Weiss report suggesting that JOE Biden committed a crime. J.O.E.! The only mentions concerning JOE Biden are disculping him. As usual, you misrepresented facts in your OP.

In your wet dreams only! There is nothing incriminating Joe Biden in the report, quite the opposite. And as you mentioned, he's been appointed by Trump! 😆 Quote from the report P.22 E. During the Investigation, Alexander Smirnov Made False Statements to Law Enforcement Agents and Was Subsequently Charged In 2020, an individual named Alexander Smirnov-who served as an FBI confidential human source-told an FBI agent that Mr. Biden and his father received $5 million bribe payments from a Burisma executive. 128 These statements wererecorded in a Form 1023, an official FBI record. 129 During the investigation of Mr. Biden, in July 2023, the FBI requested that the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Delaware investigate Mr. Smirnov's allegations. 130 My team subsequently determined that his allegations were fabricated. P.S As I posted several times I disagree with this pardon

The usual MAGA lame false equivalence tactics. Lawful means of challenging elections are not criminal, by definition. 😆 “As set forth in the original and superseding indictments, when it became clear that Mr. Trump had lost the election and that lawful means of challenging the election results had failed, he resorted to a series of criminal efforts to retain power,” the report states. https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/14/politics/special-counsel-smith-report-trump-2020-election-subversion/index.html

He's right about that part (food). Let's see how the agro lobby, which generally supports the GOP, in particular in red States, will react to attempts at imposing new regulations on them, i.e. banning the use of cheap insecticides and fertilisers. Same for the food industry lobby. Not to mention the fact that it can lead to increased food price as it's usually more costly to produce healthy food.

They can make much more money from disease treatments than from injecting vaccines. Actually vaccines are often injected by other people than doctors (nurses, pharmacists, etc....).

The quote I posted is from a GOP Committee member. I doubt she would have under-estimated the federal expenses involved.

The fact that he has been elected doesn't change what he has done in any way. Neither does your lame weaponized DOJ B.S. conspiracy theory! 😆 There is no court of public opinion.

Oooops! Sorry, I initially misunderstood your question. However the thread is about the federal budget. I looked further and found that “The federal government spent over $66 billion on illegal immigrants in 2023." (From the same committee) https://budget.house.gov/press-release/the-cost-of-the-border-crisis-1507-billion-and-counting So let's assume illegal immigration is reduced by 2/3, it's an spending cut of about $44 billion. However, there must also be a cost of preventing illegal immigration but I have no information about it.

What I posted is a very broad indicator, but it shows that the U.S. is proportionally not a large contributor. There is no reason why it would be a larger contributor for a specific part of its contribution. Unless of course you could articulate a more convincing rationale than just "probably".

Why would the left cover up for Trump? That's incoherent!

He asked about: how much the U.S. contributes in aid to illegal immigrants, the U.N. and its many agencies, and international disaster relief, If you are not happy with it, I am sorry. Have a try by yourself.

Country-centered explanations are useless. The fact is that even the poor Westerners are better-off than the middle class in developing countries, and even sometimes the highly educated class. An Indian Engineer with 10 years of experience usually barely reaches the salary level of a shop attendant in the U.S. So you have this mass of people ready to work more for less bucks, and often with low or no social protection. Not to mention the level of economies of scale a country like China can achieve. It puts a huge competitive pressure on Western countries. Until they reach a similar level of development and salaries, the pressure is not going to weaken.

Here you are. It took around 3 mn using Google. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/foreign-aid-given-as-a-share-of-national-income-net

The usual MAGA fairy tale that it would not have happened under Trump! 😆 It's the economy stupid! There are three economic reasons explaining why Putin had to wait: - he had to wait for the end of the Covid pandemic (the Russian population decreased by around 1 million during the pandemic); - he had to wait to have accumulated enough foreign currencies reserves (there weren't enough because of his bad management of the Russian economy, and because energy prices were low). - relatedly, he had to wait for global prices of energy to go up. He may be ready to negotiate for the same economic reasons: the foreign currencies reserve is declining and global energy prices have decreased and are likely to decrease further next year because demand is decreasing and Saudi Arabia has decided to increase production in order to regain market shares.

Meanwhile, Musk is already backpedalling... https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/elon-musk-says-doge-probably-wont-find-2-trillion-federal-budget-cuts-rcna186924 Trump is not even sworn in, and he's already backpedalling on all his major promises! 😆

Past performance is not an indicator as the global and domestic economic contexts are quite different from what they were pre-Covid. Trump's promises have also been significantly amplified compared to 2016. I guess that Trump didn't recently want to cancel the debt ceiling for no reason. The programs of both candidates were going to increase debt significantly. Of course, it may be that Trump ultimately doesn't applies fully his program, as he made rather unrealistic promises (he has already started backpedaling on them). That's the main margin of error for the projections made and it's probably higher than the margin of error from the calculations themselves. Anyway, it will soon be clarified during the budget discussions.

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What do you include include in "spending"?

I have posted information showing that, contrary to MAGA beliefs, Republican voters are also beneficiaries of welfare. It's true that there are more Dem recipients than Republican recipients, but Republican recipients are concentrated in rural counties which are critical for the GOP. My point is that GOP politicians who have been elected in such counties may not be eager to shoot themselves in the foot, despite the dominant political discourse.

In particular, slashing the food stamp program will certainly be very popular among people who voted for Trump because they could not afford to put enough food on the table! 😆 Related information https://www.socialexplorer.com/blog/post/political-explorer-counties-with-largest-increases-in-food-stamps-since-2010-went-for-trump-in-2020-13483 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/food-stamps-work-requirements-republican-bill-states-most-impacted/

Suuure. The fact that he organised a political meeting called "stop the steal" near the Capitol, and then sent them to the Capitol, is totally unrelated to the fact that he used variations of "fight" 20 times during his speech! You've won the price of the most pitiful post of the day!

In Pakistan, unless maybe if they are able to offer a high sum of money, they will likely be killed by the familly (they may kill the victim too...).