Another way of looking at it is, the US military budget is $825 billion and USAID budget is $50 billion. (Already looking bad, USA…)
0.018% of USAID’s budget went to help Gaza, while 1.05% of the US military budget went to destroy Gaza. Congress doesn’t even give 1% of a shit about helping Gaza.
Also to be clear, we’re not actually rebuilding it, we’re just putting on a fresh coat of paint. Lives have been irreparably damaged and this pittance isn’t nearly enough to help revitalize the area.
To be clear, we’re only spending 0.35% of the amount we did to bomb it to rebuild it.
Basically a rounding error, something for the headlines.
Another way of looking at it is, the US military budget is $825 billion and USAID budget is $50 billion. (Already looking bad, USA…)
0.018% of USAID’s budget went to help Gaza, while 1.05% of the US military budget went to destroy Gaza. Congress doesn’t even give 1% of a shit about helping Gaza.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Agency_for_International_Development
https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/fy24_defense_bill_summary.pdf
https://www.cfr.org/article/us-aid-israel-four-charts
Also to be clear, we’re not actually rebuilding it, we’re just putting on a fresh coat of paint. Lives have been irreparably damaged and this pittance isn’t nearly enough to help revitalize the area.