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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMike Pence's Office Rerouted Foreign Aid Money To Favored Christian Groups
This can't be legal, can it?11/07/19 10:28am
Mike Pences Office Rerouted Foreign Aid Money To Favored Christian Groups
Officials at USAID warned that favoring Christian groups in Iraq could be unconstitutional and inflame religious tensions. When one colleague lost her job, they said she had been Penced.
By ProPublica
Last November, a top Trump appointee at the U.S. Agency for International Development wrote a candid email to colleagues about pressure from the White House to reroute Middle East aid to religious minorities, particularly Christian groups.
Sometimes this decision will be made for us by the White House (see
Iraq! And, increasingly, Syria), said Hallam Ferguson, a senior official in USAIDs Middle East bureau, in an email seen by ProPublica. We need to stay ahead of this curve everywhere lest our interventions be dictated to us.
The email underscored what had become a stark reality under the Trump White House. Decisions about U.S. aid are often no longer being governed by career professionals applying a rigorous review of applicants and their capabilities. Over the last two years, political pressure, particularly from the office of Vice President Mike Pence, had seeped into aid deliberations and convinced key decision-makers that unless they fell in line, their jobs could be at stake.
Five months before Ferguson sent the email, his former boss had been ousted following a mandate from Pences chief of staff. Pence had grown displeased with USAIDs work in Iraq after Christian groups were turned down for aid.
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Mike Pence's Office Rerouted Foreign Aid Money To Favored Christian Groups (Original Post)
babylonsister
Nov 2019
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Turbineguy
(37,324 posts)2. These groups should be concerned
There may be a future clawback if it turns out the money was illegal.
James48
(4,435 posts)3. What would Jesus do?
Certainly not what Pence does, thats for sure.
stopbush
(24,396 posts)4. So tired of the fucking Christians.
Hekate
(90,669 posts)5. Christofascists. This is what comes of the GOP humoring the Evangelicals.
Pence --
I have tried and failed 4 times just now to come up with a single sentence that expresses how I feel about him and yet would be printable.
Faux pas
(14,672 posts)6. He's worse than the hump
he's a sneaky lying bastard asshole, wrapped in a flag and carrying cross.
triron
(22,001 posts)7. He's buried in Trump shit, I tell you.
we're not as stoopid as they think we are.
ffr
(22,669 posts)9. Open grifting now by Mr. Christian GOP Man, Mike Pence
Disgusting!