US just attacked Iran

[VinnieBoomBah]

I don't know why the Administrations including Trump's admin is allowing Congress to continue payments

Because the administrations have all wanted the payments to continue.

 

[64MercurysRule]

Because the administrations have all wanted the payments to continue.

And Congress who approves the funds .........

 

[nammac]

After a brief Google Fu session...


AI Overview

The United States does not intentionally send money to the Taliban, but U.S. taxpayer dollars sent as humanitarian aid indirectly benefit the regime. While the U.S. intends for aid to go to the Afghan people, watchdogs report that the Taliban collects funds from these assistance programs through taxes, fees, and utility payments.
KabulNow
However, direct U.S. foreign assistance awards in Afghanistan have been undergoing significant changes. The Trump administration terminated all foreign assistance awards in Afghanistan, halting the flow of new development and humanitarian funding routed through USAID.
Congress.gov
The funding situation involves several key aspects:

• Terminated Direct Aid: The U.S. government has historically been a major donor to Afghanistan post-2021. However, following policy shifts by the Trump administration, active foreign assistance awards and aid programs were largely terminated.
• Indirect Diversion: Investigations by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) have historically shown that U.S.-funded implementing partners paid millions in taxes, fees, and duties to the Taliban-controlled government to operate in the country.
• Legislative Action: Congress has actively sought to block all financial pipelines reaching the Taliban. For example, the House passed legislation such as the No Tax Dollars for Terrorists Act to mandate strict strategies against material support to the regime.
  Congress.gov +3

For the latest updates on U.S. policy and oversight, you can check the SIGAR Reports Library or Congress.gov for up-to-date legislative texts.
Congress.gov +1

Well, stolen monies or taxes imposed by illegitimate governments (financially benefiting the Taliban) cannot seriously be considered payments from the current administration. And right there says it all, NSAID was funding the Taliban, Trump abolished NSAID.

NSAID gone. No Tax Dollars for Terrorists Act. Investigations by the Special Inspector General. They all show current administration's intent to cut off the cash flow. More done in the last 16 months than 12 years by democrats.

 

[Will_White]

And Congress who approves the funds .........

So it was Congress then, not Biden or Obama, who are to blame. I understand that consistency isn't something The Dear Leader models, but if it's "their" fault when the other team is doing it, then it's "his" fault when your team is doing it.

 

[1775usmc]

Well, stolen monies or taxes imposed by illegitimate governments (financially benefiting the Taliban) cannot seriously be considered payments from the current administration. And right there says it all, NSAID was funding the Taliban, Trump abolished NSAID.

NSAID gone. No Tax Dollars for Terrorists Act. Investigations by the Special Inspector General. They all show current administration's intent to cut off the cash flow. More done in the last 16 months than 12 years by democrats.

I want results.

The Trump administration "investigated" the Epstein files too…

Going through the motions only appeases for so long until the glimmer fades.

 

[1775usmc]

Doesn't the republican party control both the house and the senate?

 

[Alexx1401]

After a brief Google Fu session...


AI Overview

The United States does not intentionally send money to the Taliban, but U.S. taxpayer dollars sent as humanitarian aid indirectly benefit the regime. While the U.S. intends for aid to go to the Afghan people, watchdogs report that the Taliban collects funds from these assistance programs through taxes, fees, and utility payments.
KabulNow
However, direct U.S. foreign assistance awards in Afghanistan have been undergoing significant changes. The Trump administration terminated all foreign assistance awards in Afghanistan, halting the flow of new development and humanitarian funding routed through USAID.
Congress.gov
The funding situation involves several key aspects:

• Terminated Direct Aid: The U.S. government has historically been a major donor to Afghanistan post-2021. However, following policy shifts by the Trump administration, active foreign assistance awards and aid programs were largely terminated.
• Indirect Diversion: Investigations by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) have historically shown that U.S.-funded implementing partners paid millions in taxes, fees, and duties to the Taliban-controlled government to operate in the country.
• Legislative Action: Congress has actively sought to block all financial pipelines reaching the Taliban. For example, the House passed legislation such as the No Tax Dollars for Terrorists Act to mandate strict strategies against material support to the regime.
  Congress.gov +3

For the latest updates on U.S. policy and oversight, you can check the SIGAR Reports Library or Congress.gov for up-to-date legislative texts.
Congress.gov +1

Some are NOT going to like to hear this

 

[NeoBlackdog]

 

[nammac]

I want results.

The Trump administration "investigated" the Epstein files too…

Going through the motions only appeases for so long until the glimmer fades.

The biggest frustrations with politics and politicians is always the lack of progress. The republicans should be pushing hard to do the things that were promised, while they can. Things might be wholly different come January.

But we've seen this before, administrations that had both the house and the senate, only to squander it with lackluster performance.

Pull the plug, drain the swamp. Let the fallout be what it may. Washington, D.C. requires a paradigm shifting shakeup.

 

[1775usmc]

The biggest frustrations with politics and politicians is always the lack of progress. The republicans should be pushing hard to do the things that were promised, while they can. Things might be wholly different come January.

But we've seen this before, administrations that had both the house and the senate, only to squander it with lackluster performance.

Pull the plug, drain the swamp. Let the fallout be what it may. Washington, D.C. requires a paradigm shifting shakeup.

Solved problems don't get them reelected. Talk and empty promises do.

It's hard to drain the swamp when you sit at the same table with them.

 

[NeoBlackdog]

. Washington, D.C. requires a paradigm shifting shakeup enema.

Fixed it for ya...

 

[nwslopoke]

A little levity for the haters

 

[1775usmc]

A little comedy for the loyalists.

 

[Alexx1401]

For all those with TDS the sky really is not falling. Elections are going to be here soon. With a little luck the GOP will lose both houses. This will make the evil orange man pretty much powerless last couple years. Then in a couple more years Newsom should be up and we can vote him in. We all know our gun rights will then GET far better, gas will be $2 a gallon, everything will be free and we will all be in fat city.

 

[1775usmc]

For all those with TDS the sky really is not falling. Elections are going to be here soon. With a little luck the GOP will lose both houses. This will make the evil orange man pretty much powerless last couple years. Then in a couple more years Newsom should be up and we can vote him in. We all know our gun rights will then GET far better, gas will be $2 a gallon, everything will be free and we will all be in fat city.

I sure hope not. That's the last thing this country needs.

TDS means nothing. lol. It's MAGAs equivalent to the left calling someone racist for simply disagreeing with someone or something that's been done.

Pick a new term.

Or just keep operating from the neck down. That works too.

The MAGA group has adopted identity politics. You know that thing they used to stand against….

lol.

 

[unionguy]

I sure hope not. That's the last thing this country needs.

TDS means nothing. lol. It's MAGAs equivalent to the left calling someone racist for simply disagreeing with someone or something that's been done.

Pick a new term.

Or just keep operating from the neck down. That works too.

The MAGA group has adopted identity politics. You know that thing they used to stand against….

lol.

That analogy is a good one. Few can face it, but what we judge in others is really about ourselves--something we aren't facing in ourselves, usually we're blind to it as it happens unconsciously. Classic example is the public homophobe who turns out to be gay, but there are others and you've hit some on the head here. The great irony is--if you can look at yourself and figure these things out you'll have many insights and grow. I used to be VERY judgmental until I figured this out a few years ago and started doing my work.

 

[gmerkt]

But we've seen this before, administrations that had both the house and the senate, only to squander it with lackluster performance.

Or downright bungling.

This business of Trump undermining GOP figures in Congress by getting them defeated in primaries may come back around to bite him.