One elected Democrat official determined to step up and defend an merchandise that any particular person with frequent sense would deem completely asinine.
Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) appeared on CNN on Saturday and was requested concerning the Trump Administration’s efforts to shut down USAID.
As The Gateway Pundit beforehand reported, USAID has been within the crosshairs for the previous week, given the billions of {dollars} of waste uncovered by DOGE. A number of the examples uncovered have been completely stunning.
In a single occasion, the company funneled $5 billion in 2014 to ignite riots in Ukraine, according to RFK Jr.
Whereas it might be in any other case anticipated for a Democrat to smear Trump as heartless and merciless concerning his stance on eliminating authorities waste, Coons determined to embarrass himself for an totally different motive on nationwide tv.
Throughout their dialogue, host Michael Smerconish requested the Delaware senator if he may justify spending $20 million of taxpayer cash on Sesame Avenue in Iraq.
“Is funding Sesame Avenue (in Iraq) a even handed use of sentimental energy?” Smerconish requested.
Instead avoiding the query as one would anticipate from a dishonest Democrat, Coons went ALL IN on defending the indefensible with this insane response.
“This isn’t simply funding a youngsters present for youngsters, hundreds of thousands of kids in international locations like Iraq,” Coons claimed.
“It’s a present that helps educate values, helps educate public well being, helps forestall youngsters from dying from dysentery and illness, and helps push values like collaboration, peacefulness, cooperation in a society the place the choice is ISIS extremism and terrorism,” he added.
Spending cash on publicly funded tv in America is unhealthy sufficient, however attempting to justify its use in a rustic that has been all-but taken over Iran is one other stage of unhealthy.
WATCH:
Democrats are actually lowered to desperately defending the indefensible on USAID.
Sen Chris Coons explains that sending $20M US taxpayer {dollars} to Iraq for Sesame Avenue is totally justified:
“It’s a present that helps educate values.” pic.twitter.com/Lbilz4UuN0
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) February 8, 2025
Coons then proceeded to insult the intelligence of each American when he dismissed the inexcusable outlay as only a drop within the bucket.
“It’s pennies on the greenback,” he continued. “The Division of Protection has an annual finances of $850 billion. USAID was spending about $30 billion.”
Coons then invoked Joe Biden’s title to proceed to defend this ridiculous waste of cash and referred to as it “good energy.”
“It’s a small proportion of our total federal spending. And as Joe and I might usually say, it’s not simply smooth energy, it’s good energy.”
There’s nothing good about Biden nor the cash being wasted throughout the federal authorities, significantly by USAID. However these details go proper over Coons’ head.
