The Needy Are the Human Shields of the American Regime

Tags: Politics, Taxes and Spending

02/05/2025 Connor O'Keeffe

The media and political outcry that came when President Trump temporarily froze USAID and some domestic funding revealed how the political establishment uses the plight of the most vulnerable people to keep their rigged political system in place.

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