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The money sent to other countries comes from a completely different place than the money budgeted for natural disasters.

It's all financed with debt, and debt is all that backs our currency. It's hard to buy oil and other resources with debt money when nations have a choice to accept money that isn't debased. BRICS is increasingly providing that choice. The end result is going to be austerity, which is how it always goes for debtor nations.

So what. It doesn’t negate that disaster money is separate from money sent to foreign nations and/or spent on immigration...

The fact that they're separate items in the budget has nothing to do with what sally was getting at. It all gets added to the national debt, which is already well past the point of ever being resolved without going into default.

One of the reasons I’m an independent voter and have voted Republican in some cases in the past is the GOP used to be the party of cutting waste, balancing budgets, reducing the national debt yada yada. That all seems to have gone out the freaking window (Trump certainly didn’t reduce the debt; I don’t think any administration has in ages). Nobody even talks about it anymore. It went way up under Trump and that was before Ukraine and the surge of illegal immigration during the first almost 3 years of Biden. I don’t totally disagree with u on this one but I don’t blame it on Ukraine or illegal immigration. I think we need to take a hard look at SS, Medicare, corporate taxes, tax loopholes used by the wealthy, aid to freaking EVERYONE, how individual states siphon money to satisfy their lobbyists/local constituents and on and on…