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"Yet, they never have the funds for healthcare coverage for all," said Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib.

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[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago

Argentina, Israel and Qatar first.

[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Aren't Argentinan soy farmers basically stealing American soy farmer's sales? Its almost like American farmers voting for this City Slicker Real Estate loser hate themselves or something.

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Well, they never thought he'd eat their faces

[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I misread your comment as 'eat their feces' on a first glance...

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

No, no, they do that all on their own

[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thats 2.6 million dollars for every school district in the United States.

[–] kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

Education isn't good for getting Republican votes

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What a fucking dumb asshole

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Argentina is kicking back to the Trumps.

[–] pjwestin@lemmy.world 69 points 2 days ago (2 children)

$40 billion was the entire annual budget of USAID. No matter what you think of them, they did provided essential aid to dozens of nations, and DOGE destroyed them under the pretense of lowering the deficit. Now we're spending that much money just to prop up one countries economy.

(Yes, I know they USAID is a soft-power tool of American imperialism, and is rumored to have been used as cover for CIA operations, but they also did a shit-load of global AIDs prevention work, and I'd rather have spent the $40 billion on that than bailing out a libertarian freak so Rob Citrone can get rich.)

[–] Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I mean the entire doge "savings" were instantly wiped out by the $200 billion increase in military spending. And I say savings incredibly generously because there are a ton of studies that say the agencies and people they cut will leave a hole in federal capabilities that will end up costing the American people way more than all of the money they claim to have saved (Some speculate the massive cuts to the IRS alone will end up costing about $1 trillion in lost tax collections).

But this combined with the cost of the shutdown and the farmer bailout and so much more is just icing on the cake I guess.

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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

its not even propping up argetina, its to bailout bassents friends.

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[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago

#NOKINGS 10/18/25 - Find your local protest: https://www.nokings.org/#map

[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 179 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Yet, they never have the funds for healthcare coverage for all

But Agentina now has.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 138 points 3 days ago (4 children)

America is paying for Argentina's Universal Healthcare, without having their own.

The art of the deal, or something.

[–] klammeraffe@lemmy.cafe 32 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I guess Argentina read his book

[–] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 20 points 2 days ago (4 children)
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[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Millei is killing public healthcare, pushing to a US style system, with US medical corporations.

[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 18 points 2 days ago

No wonder Trump likes him. He's an asshole.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 days ago

Like they said, MAGA.

[–] xyzzy@lemmy.today 14 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I wonder what the US could do with $40 billion? By the way, that's nearly $300 per taxpayer.

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[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 22 points 2 days ago (2 children)

So how much would it cost to give American's healthcare?

[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 15 points 2 days ago

Health care somewhat pays for itself. Not the really sick people, but making sure workers are healthy to actually work properly has a massive return on investment.

The other part is taking care of general health. Things like cars, bad food, all sorts of pollution and so forth really are bad for health. If you have public health care it is often cheaper to fix the underlying issue then to treat the problems coming from it.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

0, USA has no interest in giving people free or extremely subsidized healthcare, they lose thier political wedge issues, trump card for both sides. the DNC can say they would to wet thier appetite, and the GOP can say they are against it, because of this or that is not effective. and also REPUBLICAN recepients make up a large percentage of medicaid, snap benefits too.

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

I know a Trump supporting single father, who as someone it is absolutely meant for, uses SNAP benefits. And then turns around and says it shouldn't exist and votes for Trump. The people are all dumb, government will hang their carrots and nothing will change weeee

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 88 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (9 children)

I kinda missed part 1 of the story; what's the deal for Trump here?
He wouldn't be doing this if there wasn't something in it for him.


Oh and just in case somebody isn't 100% clear what Milei is about:

While Milei has ~~drastically slashed inflation, the reduction has come via the devaluation of the peso and~~ massive cuts in government spending, including the evisceration of social programs resulting in more expensive housing, healthcare, and education.

And Trump doing mafia style threats again:

“If he loses, we are not going to be generous with Argentina,” Trump told reporters. “I think he’s going to win, and if he wins, we’re staying with him, and if he doesn’t win, we’re gone.”

Lawmaker Margarita Stolbizer:

"Trump tells us Argentines that if we don't vote for Milei, we'll be punished," she added. "The interference is absolute, the libertarian surrender is total.

[–] hedgehogging_the_bed@lemmy.world 46 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Argentinian government debt is mostly owned by big American investment firms like Black Rock. If their economy crashes, American Oligarchs lose $$$$ so they convinced Trump this is in his best interests.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 16 points 2 days ago

Yep, that makes sense. It's all about the whisperers behind the dick tater.

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[–] finitebanjo@piefed.world 26 points 3 days ago (1 children)

TBH I don't try to understand Trump, he's a dumbass and everything he touches turns to shit, but hypothetically IF he weren't a concaveman, a moron of the fourth and highest order of dumbfuckery, and instead some other president then the play would be increasing US authority in South America either preemptively or as a direct response to eastern influences like Russia and China. You know. The same shit that's been going on for almost a hundred years, now. It's called a cold war.

But again, I don't think Trump's capable of rational thought.

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[–] card797@champserver.net 39 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The country is totally fucked up when he can just decide to spend 40 Billion on a whim.

[–] mcv@lemmy.zip 33 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Isn't there a shutdown? Because they can't agree on a budget? And now there's no money even to pay government employees? So where is this money suddenly coming from?

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[–] pticrix@lemmy.ca 36 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I guess I know where his next villa will be once his term is over

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 11 points 2 days ago

Going by history he's emulating, the last moments of his term will be spent in a bunker with the Allies rapidly closing in.

[–] perestroika@slrpnk.net 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

First of course, it's disrespectful to make insinuations to a sovereign country about whom they may vote into office.

Secondly, Trump doesn't have authority to give loans.

He's probably trying to deceive Argentinian voters with false hope of generous loans (which have to be paid back, I should note).

However, in the US, financial decisions are made by Congress. Certainly on the scale of tens of billons. The president has discretion to move far smaller sums.

[–] Appleseuss@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago

This guy over here talking about what trump is allowed to do like he don't do whatever the fuck he feels like already.

[–] Bongles@lemmy.zip 14 points 2 days ago

You are correct AND congress won't do anything about if he does it anyway.

[–] Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

This is going to end up with the US defaulting, isn't it?

[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 45 points 3 days ago

Someone has to pay for the upkeep of all those Nazi summer homes.

[–] DarkDecay@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Making Argentina Great Again

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[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Americans get the government they deserve (and voted for) 🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆🖕🇺🇸

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[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (8 children)

Out of curiosity, what does this do to the USD? I know it is a "small" amount relative to our country, but if they are swapping $40b in U.S. Dollars for a currency of high volatility, isnt it a guaranteed loss of believed stability in those USD up to that amount?

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[–] Inucune@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

For 40B, I could probably build a big enough carbon sink to fix global warming.

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