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The Second Trump Administration appears set on deep cuts if not an outright gutting of USAID, a government group who doles out international grants to various groups in foreign nations. I say it's high time.

I could go through the list of tax money, that is, your money and mine, going to the various groups, and it's fair to note that quite a lot of it was going towards left wing causes. But I won't. Do you know why I won't? Because that isn't the real point. My tax money should not be going towards plays in Ireland or comic books in South America on general principle. Such stuff are not in the interests of the United States. Period.

Take note: I would freely include support of things which I might otherwise like. I am, or am trying to be anyway, a serious Catholic. Yet I would not be all right with US taxpayers' cash contributing to a Nativity Scene at the Vatican. Let the Catholics do that. It's their Church.

I won't say that I'm down with everything President Trump and Elon Musk are doing; who's in lock step with anyone anyway, and I'm willing to call them out if need be. But this - keeping American aid from going towards what are essentially personal, individual causes - I'm more than okay with. Government shouldn't be doing it for anyone, regardless of outlook.

Keep rooting this stuff out, fellas, and keep cutting.