I see that the Department of Labor, not to be outdone by other federal departments in Extreme Chainsaw Activity, has done The Right Thing:
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has canceled nearly $600 million in grants to foreign countries in another round of major funding cuts.
John Clark, a DOL official appointed by President Donald Trump, directed the department’s Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB) to axe all 69 of its active grant programs on Wednesday due to a “lack of alignment with agency priorities and national interest.”
Quite what the Department of Labor was doing in giving money to furriners in the first place… well, we all know the answer to that one. [humming the tune to “The Internationale”]
And seeing as the U.S. is no longer part of the international socialist collective — or at least we’re heading in that direction, at long last — there’s no reason for us to fund the wellbeing of foreign workers anyway.
One particular item did catch my attention, though:
“$3 million for ‘safe and inclusive work environments’ in Lesotho”
I’ve been to Lesotho several times, know the place quite well in fact, and for three million bucks you could probably buy the country’s entire industrial infrastructure, pay the workers a fat cash bonus and still have some money left over to gamble invest in a couple of their casinos.
Of “$3 million to ‘enhance social security access and worker protections for internal migrant workers’ in Bangladesh”, we will not speak. (It’s a Muslim country; let the fucking Arabs pay for it.)
Similar arguments can be made for all the other useless items. Read the article for the full flavor of the wastage, and if you have specific knowledge of the circumstances of any of them, feel free to comment.
In the meantime:
i hope congress has the fortitude to codify these cuts into law and they stop sending money overseas.
I would for the sake of argument want the folks at DOGE to find out how much of past foreign spending by Labor or other agencies actually made t to the intended purpose.
“$3 million for ‘safe and inclusive work environments’ in Lesotho” I think less than 1%
I wonder how much of this graft/wastage/fraud is just cover for some black-budget CIA or .mil item?
I wouldn’t be surprised if its just stolen too. There’s no level of .gov bastardy that would surprise me at all.
Even worse, those grant names all sound like ways to pay bribes or other “incentives”.
Corrupt bureaucrat in sh!thole country X: You can have the mineral rights, but I expect to be paid.
US negotiator: But of course! We’ll just route it through a grant to country Y, who will of course take a cut.