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Only if said countries have billionaire friends of Bessent.

Removing aid to African countries is a good idea??? Of course the sicknesses there will only remain on that continent. (Sarcasm)

Did he forget that they sold soybeans to China undercutting US Farmers? (Right after they cashed our check?)

Is this even "aid to a foreign country"? Nope. It's aid to hedge fund managers

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Ukraine would like a word.

We used to have US AID Now we just have US PLAYED

Maybe SOUTH America first... Not sure MAGA supporters expected this to be what their votes in NORTH America would acheive.

Note: Argentina is incredibly white

Make it the 51st state. Make Argentina Great Again!!!

Why is the Secretary of the Treasury involving himself in matters of State?

It benefits Rob Citrone, an old pal of Bessent's, whose hedge fund has bet big on Argentina.

Who is the more extreme libertarian? Millei taking a $20 billion U.S. taxpayer bailout or Elon Musk making his fortune off fat ass U.S. government contracts?

If the foreign aid goes to US billionaires, then it's allowed.

Gotta fund that escape route!

Does he want a failed US state to fall under China leadership? Then maybe he should step down.

What an absolute cunt. Period.

Soft power America used to help democracies now thanks to Trump its helping autocrats this is the so called leader of the free world. My ass 😒

Hey Bessent, try stabilizing America first.

Making Argentina Great Again?

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But the crazy guy is a Fascist that owes dollar denominated debts So he deserves a dollar debt jubilee

Trust me, bro.

Fuck you Bessent

My hypothesis: this $20 Billion to Argentina is TRUMP’s payment intended to facilitate the disposal of MAGA’s ‘black and brown ‘problem’

Qatari air bases in US states is America First.

The man is a fascist.

Well, I do recall reading that many Nazis fled there after WWII, I would venture a guess that's the administrations back up plan if things don't go so well for them. Just a guess.

they do NOT want to go back to a fascist government

Right-wing cranks and crackpots of the world, unite!

Stabilizing Argentina is good for America and trying to break Canada is good as well???

People who invested in dud Argentine bonds will certainly benefit from this bout of foreign aid.

We’re not bailing out Argentina, we’re paying for Trump Resort Argentina

We have zero interest in Argentina. These lying assholes just give away our tax dollars.

Giving American taxpayer money to Argentina = "America First." George Orwell would be so proud.

"Oh, I thought you wanted us to eliminate aid in Africa, but you meant eliminate AIDS! Oh. My bad."

Bring back USAID instead

The same folks that constantly criticized aid to Ukraine (to stop an aggressive country from raping and killing them) wants us to now support aid to a country of their choosing that needs a bailout for their poor financial decisions

No kidding! Difference is USAID didn’t have a cozy kiss ass relationship with FOTUS - guessing Argentina is led by a boot licker

rebuilding an exact replica of USAID but this time from "first principles"

Is Argentina going to stop selling soybeans to China?

Nation building?

Stabilizing fascist regimes is important to their goal of global authoritarianism. Those other countries didn't fit the bill.

It must be interesting to live in a world where there were no events that happened longer ago than maybe 5 years (or 5 months), at least not ones you have to know anything about.

Oh they’ll definitely bail out Hungary after the EU is forced to suspend its membership and subsequent payments.

Maybe we can let Argentina have military bases here too.

Let's defund SNAP so we can fund insane Argentinian Presidents who need propping up so they might win reelection.

Isn't providing aid to foreign countries the entire purpose of USAID? I thought this administration believed that was a waste of US dollars. Guess it is only a waste when you are helping starving people.

Math was never his best subject.

Trump admin gonna take credit for reinventing foreign aid wheel

They are absolutely full of BS, and they think we are all idiots.

When do I get the cheap Argentine beef? We worked that out, right?....right?

Aid is bad when it interferes with their competition to run up the highest body count. It's good when it supports their escape plan when the crisis hits. These are not mutually exclusive concepts

And now it’s $40 billion.

Another dick substitute.

If only there were some federal agency that dealt with this. They could have an acronym like US AID?

Scott Pissant says stupid stuff all of the time

Only when there are immediate profits to be made by influential GOP donors.

Well, turns out this benefits ONE guy in Argentina who happens to be a friend of the secretary.

You must differentiate between "benefiting Americas strategic interests, allies and standing" and "benefiting Trumps Buddies who invested heavily in Argentinean bonds (because they're fucking morons) and now need a bailout" The latter has the highest priority, the former not so much.

Point And propping up autocrats is at best short-term thinking. Inferior to actual aid for countries.

A play out of the authoritarian playbook. A sideways installment of a puppet government beholden to Trump. Learned from his mentor Putin.

If it makes the 1% happy, so then it shall be.

Article I, Section 9, Clause 7 imposes accountability on Congressional spending: No money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.

Thank you

These clowns only learn by going backwards

Only certain countries. That have dictators.

Bessent is mad!!

What an ass clown

On behalf of the self-respecting, self-affirming, empathetic, and compassionate members of the LGBTQIA community: Scott, seriously, man. Go fuck yourself with a champagne saber.

Its autocracy first simple

Where's the chainsaw guy now?

The Argentina bailouts paired with the increased health care costs in red states are so fucking stupid that even MTG is smart enough to start jumping ship from Trump.

Drifting is contagious.

War is peace. Freedumb is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

He’s a Fascist buddy of Trumps you tired old Queen. Oh the 20 billion he’s giving them could be used for Americans. I thought MAGATS were against this type of wasteful foreign policy?

Only when Trump and others get a cut in return.

Did the captions person knowingly do that? PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH

Too bad we didn’t have any allies we could support or hungry people anywhere in the world back in January and February. The same thing goes for birth control and HIV medicines.

If only there were a US AID entity to ensure that our allies succeed financially and don't fall into the traps of our adversaries. Oh well.

Just what we need, a techbro Monroe Doctrine.

They oughta take their "chainsaw" to Milei.

Scott Bessen is Leonard Leo in an air filled costume