Posted on 03/30/2019 9:18:21 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
In a stunning about-face, State Department officials said that President Donald Trump is cutting off all direct assistance to the so-called Northern Triangle countries of El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala.
At the Secretarys instruction, we are carrying out the Presidents direction and ending FY [fiscal year] 2017 and FY 2018 foreign assistance programs for the Northern Triangle, a State Department spokesperson told ABC News, referring to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. We will be engaging Congress as part of this process. (MORE: Trump threatens to completely close southern border as early as next week if Mexico doesn't stop 'illegal immigration')
These three countries are the primary source of migrants to the U.S., but for years the U.S. has worked with them to stabilize their political environments and economies and end violence and corruption so that migrants wouldnt leave in the first place.
Trump hinted at the cuts earlier on Friday, telling reporters,Ive ended payments to Guatemala, to Honduras, and to El Salvador. No money goes there anymore.
While the president has threatened these cuts before, this time the administration is actually following through.
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You are not off the mark, but I don’t believe the judiciary can interfere with foreign aid despite attempts to do so.
Trump just put down a red line against Mexico. If he does not close the border now he will appear as feckless as Obama and he is not feckless. Mexico has to act now. He can not only close the border, he can ban all remittances to Mexico - that is possibly the biggest threat he has as that money is one of their main sources of income and if he does those two things the situation in Mexico will disintegrate quickly.
The next few weeks will be very interesting and I think Trump intends to force this issue once and for all.
These countries are all the same. Crooked. Send money and the crooks pocket it.
Let them fall.
It’s about time.
While your at it:
Send them a bill for all their illegals that have used USA taxpayer funded services.
Good. Cut off Mexico, as well.
I thought this had already been done.
Yeah. It's late. So what?
It needed to be done, it's done. Good.
Next step:
BUID THE WALL!!!
Stop with the bribes globally. Take those trillions and invest in America. Maybe, and it's a big "if", we can still salvage this once great nation.
We’ve been allowing nations south of us to put their dinner on our tab for decades. Time for them to go it alone.
If the militia were allowed to operate this invasion would stop in a week or less. Illegal alien anti-American criminal invaders are invaders, regardless of age and sex, and deserve to be treated a such.
UN take note!
Caravans have consequences.
Send a battleship down there and take them all out Ala Noriega.
DJT is a better man than I. If it was me, the Marines and XVIII Airborne corps would have already visited, seized the ports, overthrown the governments, and installed puppets.
so how much indirect assistance do they get? does it stay the same, increase or decrease?
Maybe we should put U.S. troops on the southern border.....Mexico’s southern border.
You want to really leave a mark? Restrict all U.S. Church mission trips to those countries.....
We may have yo do that for the safety of those on the trips.
Thanks COUNTrecount.
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