Critics say the potential cuts in the US diplomatic footprint coupled with the dismantling of the US Agency for International Development (USAid) that provided billions of dollars worth of aid globally risk undermining American leadership and leaves a dangerous vacuum for adversaries like China and Russia to fill.(…)
Trump and Musk say the US government is too big and American taxpayer-funded aid has been spent in a wasteful and fraudulent way. (…)
Leipzig, Hamburg and Dusseldorf in Germany, Bordeaux and Strasbourg in France, and Florence in Italy were among a list of smaller consulates that the state department is considering shutting down, three officials said, adding that could still change as some staff were making a case for them to stay open.
Except US “expats” that need assistance with passports, taxes, birth certificates, etc.
That’s their problem. They should have voted a sane person into power. Now if they don’t like it here, as maga says it: “they can go where they came from”.
A lot of us didn’t vote for the orange piece of shit. I plan to take a dump on his grave. I hate the mother fucker and his ilk with a passion and so do a lot of people I know. Our system is so rigged, gerrymandered, and captured by billionaires it’s made free and fair elections very hard. Too many are drowning in propaganda and disinformation to boot.
I’m sure the expat vote skews HEAVILY anti trump.
What more could you do to protest Trump than literally leave your home country and pay taxes into a different system?