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Trump freezes funding to terrorist sponsor National Endowment for Democracy (www.thefp.com)

submitted 1 week ago by AlbigensianGhoul@lemmygrad.ml to c/worldnews@lemmygrad.ml

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On February 2, Musk posted on X: “NED is a SCAM.”

The whole article is great in that it admits to a ton of crimes of the NED while desperately trying to frame it as a good thing.

Main news won't even put the acronym on the headlines, see NYT.

It's very ironic that austerity madness is what is finally killing these exporters of neoliberalism. Somebody should X at musk to cut all funding for the University of Chicago too.

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[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 days ago

A lot of this stuff Trump is doing could just be vengeance for his first term. USAID funded a bunch of journos who shit over Trump's rejection of the neoliberal order. DoE has a bunch of public sector unions. DoJ was responsible for some embarrassing legal defeats.

The levers of power were designed to resist being pushed with force, so he's just unbolting them from the floor instead.