It's not even clear to what degree the proposed USAID cuts even happened.
Pretty much all DOGE's work was undone at the end for horsetrading for the Big Beautiful Bill.
And if memory serves, the insane pork that was justified with the BBB was a compromise to increase ICE & Border Patrol funding for mass deportations.
Mass deportations that Trump TACO'd last month in MN, along with previous exemptions for Chinese spies, H1B indians, farm workers, factory workers, Koreans making batteries, etc, etc.
It's not even clear to what degree the proposed USAID cuts even happened.
Pretty much all DOGE's work was undone at the end for horsetrading for the Big Beautiful Bill.
And if memory serves, the insane pork that was justified with the BBB was a compromise to increase ICE & Border Patrol funding for mass deportations.
Mass deportations that Trump TACO'd last month in MN, along with previous exemptions for Chinese spies, H1B indians, farm workers, factory workers, Koreans making batteries, etc, etc.
And the entire H-2B temporary worker program which Trump effectively tripled the visas for…