Subject: Re: More on USAID Expenditures of Taxpayer Money
There are reports that T&E in USAID may be 40-50% of Agency expenditures.

There are no “reports”.

Only propaganda.

Facts and truth have left the building. - Bill

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I don't know for sure if the 50% from an anonymous source is even in the ballpark, it sounds too high to me. I am fine with allowing the audit to proceed to find out and release supporting details for this and other suspicious expenditures.


Likewise you don't know for sure either, but seem quite ready to declare 100% propaganda, nothing to see here. I am fine too with your side promoting the "nothing to see here, you shouldn't even be allowed to even look" approach to oversight.

In general, I think the culture of secrecy in government needs to end. Government should be more responsive and open with information it is holding, such as when providing public updates on disasters, domestic criminal activity, and foreign threats. And especially responsive for subpoenas from Congressional committees and FOIA requests from individual congressmen. Let the sun shine in and allow American voters to decide what makes sense or not, as they just did in the last election.

The citizens have a legitimate right to know how their tax money is being used and in the case of USAID who in the agency leadership is authorizing those expenditures.