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Ron Paul: "Those tempted to blame the increases on President Biden, the Democratic Congress, or the Covid-related spending spree should consider the debt increase by around $1 Trillion a year in 2017, and 2018, years when the Republicans controlled the White House and both houses of Congress."
Donald Trump Says Israel Should 'Hit' Iran's Nuclear Sites First
Donald Trump Is NOT A 'Threat to the Deep State'. Here Is His Warmongering Record.
Video: https://youtu.be/5wwm4OiYY5Mhttps://youtu.be/5wwm4OiYY5M
Miriam Adelson, The Pro-Israel Donor With a $100 Million Plan to Elect Trump
- Trump, Pelosi Attempting A "Replacement Government" Coup? (Starts at 21 minutes 10 seconds)
Top Republicans Stay Silent on Trump’s Call to Terminate the Constitution
Even though GOP leaders are so far staying away, the White House has strongly rebuked Trump's comments, calling them "anathema to the soul of our nation.”`
Trump Renews Call for Stop-and-Frisk, Says ‘Take Their Gun Away’
Trump Promises Taxpayer Funding of IVF Or Mandate For Insurance to Cover It
Trump’s 2024 Federalized Stop-and-Frisk Agenda
Trump Pledges to Restore Israel Lobby's Power Over Congress
Who’s Behind J. D. Vance? Is He a CIA Candidate?
Trump’s Agenda 47 for Homeschoolers
Donald Trump - Agenda 47: The American Academy
Trump: "We Will Ban Urban Camping Wherever Possible"
National Debt by President
Joe Biden 2021 – present* $6.66 Trillion 23.42%
Donald Trump 2017 – 2021 $8.18 Trillion 40.43% (one single term)
Barack Obama 2009 – 2017 $8.34 Trillion 69.98% 9 (2 full terms)
https://x.com/FOX4/status/1828149971746451586
https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1741266100921237750
NEW YORK (AP) — A company that owns buildings with Donald Trump and the family of Jared Kushner is a finalist for a $1.7 billion contract to build the FBI’s new headquarters.
Video here: https://youtu.be/Wb2KM1Z8bJY
Donald Trump: "We have given Pfizer and other companies a great deal of money"
Donald Trump on Edward Snowden: Kill the ‘traitor’
Donald Trump on Edward Snowden: “I think Snowden is a terrible threat, I think he’s a terrible traitor, and you know what we used to do in the good old days when we were a strong country — you know what we used to do to traitors, right?”
Mises Wire
Aaron Sobczak
09/11/2024
In 2015, then-President Obama, agreed to allow the United States to assist Saudi Arabia in its campaign against the Shia Houthis in Yemen. This relationship was continued by Trump, and resulted in what is widely regarded as genocide towards the Houthi people. Fast-forward to recent years, President Trump worked tirelessly to undermine Iran, Saudi Arabia’s chief enemy, while also having significant business dealings with the Saudi royal family.
Present day, the United States is addicted to selling arms to Saudi Arabia, with President Biden announcing a $500 billion arms sale in 2023. Despite human rights abuses, ties to 9-11, and regular support for America’s enemies, Riyadh continues to enjoy high levels of support from the United States. It is likely that President Trump will renew talks surrounding his Abraham Accords with Saudi Arabia if he is re-elected in 2024. The Abraham Accords are a series of agreements made between the United States, Israel, and willing Muslim-majority nations. The agreements always involve normalizing relations with Israel, millions of dollars in aid from the United States, as well as other tantalizing items. Normalization between Saudi Arabia and Israel would have implications of enormous magnitude, as the Saudis carry high levels of influence not just in the Middle East, but also around the world.
https://mises.org/mises-wire/us-close-ever-saudi-arabia-23-years-after-9-11
Trump Made At Least $9.6 Million From The Middle East While President
Donald Trump made at least $9.6 million from countries in the Middle East during his presidency, according to years of reporting and a CREW analysis of his tax returns. That means Trump pulled in at least six times his official presidential salary in side income from the Middle East alone during his time in office. The total is likely much higher, but public reporting only sheds light on the most high profile instances of profiteering, and he is only required to report certain types of income on his tax returns.
After Trump was elected president, he made the unprecedented decision not to divest from his business interests, and remained very much involved in the Trump Organization, creating an endless number of conflicts of interest by blurring the lines between the government and his businesses. The profiteering paid off, and Trump raked in tens of millions from international business interests during his time in office.
Trump and his allies in Congress frequently visited and held events at his clubs, hotels and golf courses, advertising to those looking to influence the government that Trump properties were open for business. Foreign governments and officials in particular took advantage of the open opportunity to ingratiate themselves with the president. At an event for foreign diplomats at the Trump International Hotel in D.C., held shortly after Trump was elected, one diplomat told the Washington Post, “Why wouldn’t I stay at his hotel blocks from the White House, so I can tell the new president, ‘I love your new hotel!’” Multiple other diplomats echoed this sentiment.
Officials from the Middle East in particular took this advice, with officials from countries including Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Turkey taking conspicuous measures to curry favor with the president. https://www.citizensforethics.org/r...6-million-middle-east-income-while-president/
List of Pardons by Trump:
- Alex Adjmi: Adjmi was granted a full pardon. The White House said Adjmi was convicted of a financial crime in 1996 and served 5 years in prison.
- Michael Ashley: Ashley was convicted for bank fraud over the 2009 collapse of mortgage company Lend America and sentenced to 3 years in prison in 2019. He was the executive vice president and chief business strategist with the company. Ashley was ordered to pay $49 million in restitution and $800,000 in forfeiture. His sentence was commuted.
- Stephen K. Bannon: Trump's former chief strategist in the White House was in charge of the final months of his 2016 presidential campaign and was indicted in August along with three others on wire fraud and money laundering conspiracy charges. Prosecutors alleged that Bannon’s crowdfunding “We Build the Wall” campaign raised more than $25 million from Trump supporters and used hundreds of thousands for personal expenses. He was taken into custody by U.S. Postal Inspection Service agents while on board the yacht of Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui. Bannon received a full pardon and now will not have to face a trial.
- Dr. Faustino Bernadett: Bernadett, a retired anesthesiologist, was sentenced last year to 15 months in federal prison for taking part in a long-running health care fraud scheme where he authorized sham contracts that concealed over $30 million in illegal kickback payments to physicians, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. The overall scheme resulted in more than $900 million in fraudulent bills being submitted, the office said. The White House said Bernadett has spent the past year “devoted to helping protect his community from Covid-19.” He received a full pardon.
- Carl Andrews Boggs: Trump granted a full pardon to Carl Andrews Boggs. In 2014, Boggs pleaded guilty to federal charges stemming from a criminal investigation into the illegal use of a disadvantaged business enterprise to obtain government-funded construction contracts. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, he pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to defraud the department of transportation and one count of money laundering conspiracy.
- Randall “Duke” Cunningham: Another ex-member of Congress, the California Republican was sentenced to 8 years in prison for bribery and was released in 2013. He received a conditional pardon.
- Kwame Kilpatrick: The former mayor of Detroit had his 28-year sentence commuted. He pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice and resigned from office as part of a plea deal in 2008 following a pay-to-play scheme in which Kilpatrick and his father took kickbacks and bribes to steer city business to certain contractors. He initially served 99 days in prison but then served an additional year for violating his probation and was released in 2011.
- Salomon Melgen: Trump commuted the prison sentence of Melgen, an eye doctor and major Democratic donor convicted of defrauding Medicare patients. He stood trial with New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez, who lobbied Trump for Melgen's case.
- Rick Renzi: Former U.S. Rep. Rick Renzi, R-Ariz., was granted a full pardon. In 2013, he was sentenced to three years in prison for extortion, bribery, insurance fraud, money laundering and racketeering in a public corruption case. He had served three terms in the House.
- Aviem Sella: An Israeli citizen, Sella was indicted in March 1987 on charges he recruited convicted American spy Jonathan Jay Pollard to collect U.S. military secrets for Israel. Trump granted him a full pardon and his request was supported by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli ambassador to the U.S. and the U.S. ambassador to Israel.
- David Tamman: Trump granted a full pardon to David Tamman, who was a partner at a law firm when he doctored financial documents at the behest of a client who was perpetrating a Ponzi scheme. According to the Department of Justice, the scheme ultimately took $22 million from victims. Tamman was found guilty of 10 counts that included obstruction of justice, altering records in a federal investigation, and being an accessory after the fact to the fraud scheme. He was convicted in 2013 and completed his seven-year sentence in 2019.
- Monstsho Eugene Vernon: Vernon had his sentence commuted after serving 19 years in prison. Vernon committed numerous armed bank robberies in Greenville, South Carolina. The White House said that some of these offenses involved Vernon carrying BB guns as opposed to genuine firearms.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/do...st-minute-pardons-commuted-sentences-n1254806
Donald Trump Endorses Jim Justice WV
https://twitter.com/RMConservative/status/1773379486567829913
https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1773533343566467380
- Donald Trump: “Twenty-three of the 28 nations are still not paying what they should be paying." As part of its efforts to respond to Trump’s demand to do more to fight terrorism, NATO will also set up a counter-terrorism intelligence cell to improve information-sharing.
- Donald Trump: “ Klaus has done a fantastic job”
- Facial Recognition is Coming to US Airports, Fast-tracked by Trump
- Jan 20, 2021 Trump Revokes Lobbying Ban He Signed At The Beginning Of His Presidency
President Donald Trump, in one of his last acts as president, revoked his own executive order requiring federal government appointees to sign a pledge to not lobby the agencies in which they worked for five years after leaving the administration.
forbes.com/sites/andrewsolender/2021/01/20/trump-revokes-lobbying-ban-he-signed-at-the-beginning-of-his-presidency/
- Trump rails against GOP congressman who signaled support for forcing roll-call vote on coronavirus stimulus deal
March 27, 2020
(CNN)President Donald Trump suggested that a Republican congressman be unseated for potentially jeopardizing the passage of the $2 trillion stimulus package, which will provide Americans economic relief amid the coronavirus pandemic.
In an attack against a member of his own party, Trump called Rep. Thomas Massie a "third rate Grandstander" and claimed the Kentucky Republican "just wants the publicity" after threatening a roll-call vote, which would require members travel back to the US Capitol to vote in person...
...He added, "WIN BACK HOUSE, but throw Massie out of Republican Party!"...
https://www.rollcall.com/2020/03/2...m-kentucky-trump-wants-thrown-out-of-the-gop/
(CNN)President Donald Trump suggested that a Republican congressman be unseated for potentially jeopardizing the passage of the $2 trillion stimulus package, which will provide Americans economic relief amid the coronavirus pandemic.
In an attack against a member of his own party, Trump called Rep. Thomas Massie a "third rate Grandstander" and claimed the Kentucky Republican "just wants the publicity" after threatening a roll-call vote, which would require members travel back to the US Capitol to vote in person...
...He added, "WIN BACK HOUSE, but throw Massie out of Republican Party!"...
https://www.rollcall.com/2020/03/2...m-kentucky-trump-wants-thrown-out-of-the-gop/
- President Trump promised in the 2016 campaign to eliminate the federal debt over a two-term presidency. That pledge won't come to fruition, and, in fact, he will leave office having added massively to the debt.
“His tenure has been marked by a total disregard for any concern about mounting debt", said Jim Capretta, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a right-leaning think tank in Washington, D.C.
When Trump was inaugurated on Jan. 20, 2017, the total national debt was nearly $20 trillion, according to the Treasury Department. It has increased over roughly 30% since, nearly $8 trillion, to $27 trillion, as of Monday.
For comparison, President Barack Obama added roughly $9 trillion to the national debt during his eight years in office, according to the Treasury Department.
Before Trump took office, he railed against the debt. Shortly before winning the White House, he likened its high level to a “time bomb.”
“I will tell you, we are sitting on a time bomb,” he told CBS in June 2016, adding that “I don’t like debt for the country.”
Trump in 2016 vowed to eliminate the federal debt over an eight-year period. At the time, the federal government's debt was over $19 trillion, and most economists thought Trump's pledge ludicrous.
To Capretta, Trump’s actions have been fiscally reckless.
“Trump saw that it would be to his political advantage to be very liberal in terms of spending and tax reductions happening simultaneously,” he said.
In his first year of entering office, Trump signed into law a tax overhaul bill that added $1.9 trillion to the debt over a 10-year period, according to the Congressional Budget Office, the bookkeeper for Congress.
He also increased annual spending, by nearly $800 Billion, from $3.85 trillion in 2016 to $4.65 trillion in 2020 (before pandemic relief), according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a nonpartisan organization that examines the spending habits in Washington.
Then came the federal response to the pandemic, which drained federal coffers by $1.76 Trillion, according to the CBO.
Obama, too, increased spending to address a crisis, namely the Great Recession. He signed into law the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act," also known as the stimulus, that added $787 billion to the annual deficit. The deficit is the difference between spending and revenues in a given year, while the debt represents accrued deficits.
Trump signed all of these bills into law without trying to reduce the amount of red ink that he was creating, according to Capretta.
“He never really pressed any kind of fiscal policy onto Congress,” he said.
Congress plays an integral role in the tax cuts and spending increases that are enacted into law and could have pressed for more fiscal responsibility in the bills that were passed.
Meanwhile, the trajectory of the debt is upward, according to the CBO. By the end of 2020, federal debt held by the public is projected to equal 98% of GDP, compared to 79% at the end of 2019 and 35% at the end of 2007.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trumps-legacy-added-debt-one-term
Donald Trump Owns Stock in Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson
https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1337369403638362114
- Trump decries "Reckless anti-vaccine rhetoric, anti-vaccine conspiracy theories"
- Trump White House orders FDA chief to authorize Pfizer vaccine by Friday or submit his resignation
- Trump: Vax a "Medical Miracle" -"I pushed the FDA Like Nobody's Been Pushed Before"
Trump administration: Employers can require workers to get COVID-19 vaccine.
- Donald Trump appointed Dr. Scott Gottlieb, a well known physician with ties to the pharmaceutical industry as an FDA Commissioner in March, 2017. Two years later, on June 27, 2019, Gottlieb was elected to Pfizer’s Board of Directors to serve on its Regulatory and Compliance Committee. According to US Federal Election Commission documents (page 163), Pfizer, Inc. donated $1 million to Trump’s Presidential Inauguration Committee on December 22, 2016 and received four tickets to the Leadership Luncheon with Cabinet appointees and House and Senate Leadership. https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/health-companies-gave-generously-president-trumps-inauguration/
- On December 27, 2020 Donald Trump signed the "Stimulus" Bill providing a few hundred dollars to the people and Billions to Bill Gates' GAVI Alliance and Globalist initiatives.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/coronavirus-stimulus-deal-funding-gavi-bill-gates-132249063.html
- In February, the Trump administration had promised to commit $1.16 billion to Gavi over fiscal years 2020-2023. The new funds are a sizable increase but in line with the historical role that the United States has played in the Gavi alliance. Over the years, the U.S. has contributed 13.7% of the group’s operating budget — $1.4 billion between 2016 and 2020.
https://www.kff.org/news-summary/u-...ance-subject-to-congressional-appropriations/
- Bill Gates Led Effort To Get $3.36 Billion Into The Coronavirus Deal
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/coronavirus-stimulus-deal-funding-gavi-bill-gates-132249063.html
- Operation Warp Speed (OWS) is a Public–Private partnership, initiated by Donald Trump to facilitate and accelerate the development, manufacturing, and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines. On March 27 nearly $10 Billion for Operation Warp Speed through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.
Moncef Slaoui was interviewed and named in May 2020 by the Trump Administration as Operation Warp Speed chief adviser. Slaoui, Moderna Board Member, was formerly Chairman of Global Research and Development and Chairman of Global Vaccines at GlaxoSmithKline. The project has military officers involved in management of the key focus areas of development, manufacturing, and distribution. Slaoui was formerly partnered with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Awarded Moderna $1 Billion and $1.6 Billion to Novavax. BARDA participates in the Department of Defense (DoD) and the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
"We did the right thing" by closing down the country:
https://x.com/RealSpikeCohen/status/1785721806063653226
- US Kills Iran general Qassem Suleimani in Strike Ordered by Trump
- Trump Formally Nominates [Bloody] Gina Haspel, Who Played Role in Torture Program and Destruction of Evidence, to be Next CIA Director
- Trump on Torture: "We have to beat the savages" - http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/06/politics/donald-trump-torture/
- - Trump Escalates Killer Drone War And No One Seems To Care
The Trump administration has significantly increased the tempo of drone strikes in a number of countries, and it has relaxed the rules governing the targeting of these strikes. The result has been an increased number of civilian casualties with even less accountability than before and no redress for the innocent people caught in the middle of our endless wars.
The U.S. government restricts the information that is publicly available about these attacks, and that in turn ensures that there is very little public scrutiny or criticism of an open-ended military campaign. To make matters worse, the additional strikes seem to have done nothing to reduce the activities of Al-Shabaab, and instead the threat posed by the group is greater than before.
The drone war in Somalia is just one part of this campaign, and it exemplifies what is wrong with the open-ended “war on terror.” Like the other wars he inherited, President Trump has significantly escalated it. Through the end of 2019, there had already been 148 U.S. strikes launched in Somalia since Trump took office. In just the first half of 2020, there have been as many U.S. drone strikes in Somalia (40) as there were between 2007 and 2016. In less than three and a half years, Trump has more than quadrupled the number of attacks in Somalia ordered by his last two predecessors. https://www.theamericanconservative...es-killer-drone-war-and-no-one-seems-to-care/
- The Trump Administration First Approved the Sale of Javelins to Ukraine in 2017
- In 2017, President Donald J. Trump began selling lethal weapons to Ukraine.
- In 2019, President Trump unilaterally withdrew from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, increasing Russian vulnerability to a U.S. first strike.
“The provocations that the United States and its allies have directed at Russia are policy blunders so serious that, had the situation been reversed, U.S. leaders would long ago have risked nuclear war with Russia.” Abelow concludes that the U.S. government bears significant responsibility for the Ukrainian war.
The U.S. has escalated its belligerence throughout the war. As Chas Freeman, the former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, observed: “Everything we are doing, rather than accelerating an end to the fighting and some compromise, seems to be aimed at prolonging the fighting.”
Col. Douglas Macgregor bitterly condemned the moral bankruptcy, the “shocking vacuum of humanity,” among the White House Neocon strategists who made common cause with Ukraine’s right wing ultranationalists (a polite description of the cohorts) to provoke the proxy war with Russia, sacrificing U.S. money and Ukrainian bodies. https://asiatimes.com/2021/12/neocons-bent-on-starting-another-disaster-in-ukraine/
Donald Trump on e-Verify:
- Donald Trump Supports Waterboarding:
- President Trump Officially Nominates Mike Pompeo as Secretary of State. Mike Pompeo quoted:
- As president, Trump declared "Emergency" Spending Bill containing:
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8 (h) REFUGEE ASSISTANCE IN NORTH AFRICA.-Not
9 later than 45 days after enactment of this Act, the Secretary
10 of State, after consultation with the United Nations
11 High Commissioner for Refugees and the Executive Direc-
12 tor of the World Food Programme, shall submit a report
13 to the Committees on Appropriations describing steps
14 taken to strengthen monitoring of the delivery of humani-
15 tarian assistance provided for refugees in North Africa,
16 including any steps taken to ensure that all vulnerable ref-
17 ugees are receiving such assistance.
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12 (k) TRANSFER OF FUNDS.-Of the funds appro-
13 priated by this Act under the heading "Economic Support
14 Fund", $25,000,000 shall be transferred to, and merged
15 with, funds appropriated under the heading "International
16 Organizations and Programs", of which $23,000,000 shall
17 be for a contribution to support the United Nations resi-
18 dent coordinator system and $2,000,000 shall be for a
19 contribution to the Montreal Protocol Multilateral Fund.
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6 UNITED NATIONS POPULATION FUND
7 SEC. 7072. (a) CONTRIBUTION.-Of the funds made
8 available under the heading "International Organizations
9 and Programs" in this Act for fiscal year 2019,
10 $32,500,000 shall be made available for the United Na-
11 tions Population Fund (UNFP A).
12 (b) AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.-Funds appropriated
13 by this Act for UNFPA, that are not made available for
14 UNFP A because of the operation of any provision of law,
15 shall be transferred to the "Global Health Programs" ac-
16 count and shall be made available for family planning, ma-
17 ternal, and reproductive health activities, subject to the
18 regular notification procedures of the Committees on Ap-
19 propriations.
https://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20190211/CRPT-116hrpt9.pdf
- As president, Donald Trump signed USMCA (NAFTA replacement), an anti-Free trade agreement, containing language such as Government Tribunals, Sustainable Development and International Labour Organization which is a United Nations Agency. https://ustr.gov/trade-agreements/f...tes-mexico-canada-agreement/agreement-between
- Donald Trump Supports NSA Data Collection - http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box...ides-with-rubio-over-cruz-in-nsa-surveillance
- January 17, 2018 - U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he signed into law a bill renewing the National Security Agency’s Warrantless Internet Surveillance Program, sealing a defeat for digital privacy advocates. The legislation renews and extends Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) for six years and with minimal changes the National Security Agency (NSA) program. The program also incidentally scoops up Americans’ communications, including when they communicate with a foreign target living overseas, and can search those messages without a warrant.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...s-internet-surveillance-program-idUSKBN1F82MK
- President Trump remained completely silent when Amazon announced that it was providing free Facial Recognition Technology to the city of Orlando – technology that keeps the city’s residents under 24/7 constant surveillance - violating the very 4th and 5th Amendments he swore to protect. https://www.thenewamerican.com/usne...ecognition-technology-provided-free-by-amazon
- As president, Donald Trump promised to complete the Biometric Identification system that will track every person by land, sea and air, which will be recorded permanently in a national government database. The United Nations goal is to implement Biometric Identification to every man, woman and child by 2030. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7maNYUQbMQ
- During Trumps presidency, TSA announced Biometric Identification will be implemented not only for international flights, but now a Domestic Blueprint across all 50 states. https://www.tsa.gov/news/releases/2018/10/15/tsa-releases-roadmap-expanding-biometrics-technology
- As president, on September 20, 2018, President Donald Trump told attendees at a chiefs of police convention that he has instructed the Justice Department to work toward reinstating “Stop and Frisk”, violating Constitutional protections. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/08/trump-praises-stop-and-frisk-calls-for-tougher-policing-tactics.html
- As president, Trump authorized and implemented on October 03, 2018 a “Presidential Alert” via FEMA to all capable privately-owned cell phones in the United States, according to Cyber Expert John McAfee, accessing the E911 chip in your phones – can give full access to location, microphone, camera and every function of a phone. https://theantimedia.com/mcafee-presidential-alert/
- As president, Trump nominated Brett Kavanaugh, who is ANTI 1st 4th and 5th Amenedments, for the U.S. Supreme Court. Kavinaugh was instrumental in passing the Patriot Act among other anti BoR rulings. https://youtu.be/OiObm7dtcyA
- As president, Trump appointed John Bolton as National Security Advisor https://www.politico.com/story/2018...nal-security-adviser-hr-mcmaster-trump-481721
- As president, Trump threatened to veto, but instead and without hesitation, signed a $1.3 Trillion 2018 Omnibus providing:
- $500 Million to Planned Parenthood.
- $1.371 Billion for Contributions to International Organizations
- $51 Million to promote International Family Planning
- $7 Million promoting International Conservation
- $10 Million for UN Environmental Programs
- Internal Revenue Service: Despite the administration’s attempts to slash its budget, the
Omni-Bus grants $11.431 Billion to the nation’s tax collectors, a $196 million year-to-year
increase and $456 Million more than Trump requested.
- Arts: Federal funding for the arts goes up, despite GOP attempts to slash it. The National
Endowments for the Arts and Humanities will see funding climb to $152.8 Million each, a $3
Million increase over the last fiscal year. The National Gallery of Art gets $165.9 Million, a $1.04
Million jump in funding. The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will receive $40.5
Million, which is $4 Million more than the last fiscal year.
- $12 Million for Scholarships for Lebanon
- $20 Million for Middle East Partnership Initiative Scholarship Program
- $12 Million in military funding for Vietnam
- $15 Million in Developmental assistance to China
- $10 Million for Women LEOs in Afghanistan
