Ted Cruz And Samantha Power Clash Over His Questions About U.S. Aid To Gaza Getting Into Hamas Hands
At today's Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) grilled USAID Admin. Samantha Power about aid to Gaza.
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More stupidity from this administration 😢
@mozoiboy
Ай бұрын
This is what happens when both sides of the fence are funded by AIPAC . They put foreign interests ahead of domestic issues .
@charlesphillips5723
Ай бұрын
It is not stupidity. It is a direct attack on our sovereignty. Samantha Power is an immigrant from Ireland and is a New World Order operative that has served in the Obama Administration in various posts including The United Nations
@ouiroc
24 күн бұрын
If they have a day behind their name they are crooked and are liars
When is anyone going to hold themselves accountable for ANYTHING in this administration. Unbelievable.
@peekaboo6622
Ай бұрын
gods belive themselves to be above the law.
@susansheidler4698
Ай бұрын
THY HAVE NO IDEA WHAT Accountability means
@user-bg4cs5go1m
Ай бұрын
I agree
@riverotter68
Ай бұрын
no, Cruz will never do that
@josephdennis9860
Ай бұрын
Never!!
I am dumbfounded that she hasn't come prepared with any numbers.
@user-sb9es3ed5v
Ай бұрын
Typical
@saraoberlander9078
Ай бұрын
Not dumbfounded. They are trained not to answer questions
@shilpapatil745
Ай бұрын
Deliberate omission
@fadumonor868
Ай бұрын
I don’t think she was prepare for hamas or khamas! Hamas hamas hamas everything hamas hamas
@goldspike1
Ай бұрын
They never come prepared.... on purpose !!!!!!!
How much aid has been sent to Gaza? "I have not tabulated the amounts."??? US Aid Administrator?
@runits
Ай бұрын
not much is getting into or out of gaza . there is no real amount of goods flowing in until this morning. even this mornings amount will not stop the famine that is happening now
@geirs4117
Ай бұрын
However much, there is a six months backlog to take into account now that desperate people are starving.
@bradbarnett5464
Ай бұрын
Our U.S. Aid Administrator should have an 'accurate' account of how much aid has been sent to Gaza, how much aid has been distributed, refused, and/or delayed. She should also be informed enough to disclose any information and amounts sent by neighboring nations.
@user3567tgyhzz
Ай бұрын
@@runits That's absolute bs! I did put a few postings providing some info I came across (above). Even Hamas has lowered the food prices in the area because it is overwhelmed with aid.
@user3567tgyhzz
Ай бұрын
As I stated in my comment above, here is a short repeat...dated 27 Feb 2024..."This brings the total amount of funding announced by the U.S. government since October 7 to more than $180 million."
why do they always refer to the prior administration -- you're more than 3 years in at this point - you own this stuff after 90 days
@murielsundermier1044
20 күн бұрын
So right! Bidens the loser!
This woman doesn't answer questions. She was clearly asked how much aid is diverted by Hamas and her response is "we know it enters." That's not the question. The answer is "we don't know." In other words, "were wasting your money, aiding terrorists and prolonging the war."
@user3567tgyhzz
Ай бұрын
In fairness, that's not her job. Who checks up on these things? How do they find out when there are fraudulent activities? they had to stop aid to Ethiopia last summer (2024) because the aid was not getting to the people. I think the country's leaders were reselling the goods. I'm sure it's not too popular to talk about these things because you can imagine how people would feel...like the tax payers...
@mallachsteve
Ай бұрын
@@user3567tgyhzz Fair point. There's a lack of both transparency and accountability. And common sense wouldn't go amiss either.
Why do we give our tax dollars to so many countries around the world, when they hate us , talk us down at any chance and we could use the money here at home?
@ouiroc
24 күн бұрын
Pleas we pay 11 million a year to North Korea currency of the UN the UN is the real problem we need to withdraw from the UN immediately and let the rest of the world take care of themselves if they want to fight let them fight is none of our business and definitely use none of our money doing it
@CARLOSESCOBAR-tz8yc
19 күн бұрын
Because the rather ignore those in US in need
@saifckret7391
6 күн бұрын
Because the USA government policies is producing war and corruption all over the world and is the biggest terrorist organisation against millions of innocent people around the world. The only thing matter to America is Money and bad attitude towards the rest of the world.
@franklinmwirigi4196
2 күн бұрын
Well Uncle Sam wanna control every country..
@handysmith-kv1tc
2 күн бұрын
@@ouiroc That makes too much sense for Washington!
Samantha Power is a natural born liar, which makes her the perfect Democrat.
@user-fw3nk2jo4q
Ай бұрын
Please!! Wake Up!! It's not about Democrat or Republican! People are dying. Murdered. With US arms.
@will2023-onCensorshipTub
Ай бұрын
Should of asked regime change girl if she is still sending millions to wuhan and if she has accidentally turned any small countrys comunist lately.
@will2023-onCensorshipTub
Ай бұрын
Good job makin sure you pay hamas one more question what was the ask. We know the democrats expect orders to be followed when dishing out us tax payer dollars to terrorist groups corporations and foreign governments overseas.
Why is it that none of the Dems that are being questioned have any idea of what they spend even though they know that the questions are going to be asked? Sick of empty words from both sides
samantha power needs to be “Fired”.
@user-zc6ie2qh9v
Ай бұрын
Almost all Biden appointees are DEI hires, not the best people available. Not even close. DEI hires are picked because of race, gender, and more recently national origin and sexual preference. Bidens personnel people are working on a "plan" to give preferential treatment to job applicants that are transgender (that will come in Biden's second term). The disaster at the border, the out of control inflation, the soaring crime, the high energy prices - the mixed signals on the Hamas-Israel war (Biden believes Hamas should be rewarded with their own state for genocide targeting Jews), the DOJ going after Trump, all these bad policies are being brought to us by left wing DEI hires brought into the government by stumblebum Joe Biden and his incompetent "woke" staff.
@riverotter68
Ай бұрын
why?
@Itsdifferent-wv4jo
Ай бұрын
@@user-zc6ie2qh9vI'm an Israeli, but believe me, we as Israelis don't want to see Trump as a president, four more years ❤❤❤❤
@georgestavri4474
Ай бұрын
WHY ? because she mentioned pal suffering and famine due to Is’l total anihillation of a people ?
@NewOrleansSeptember
Ай бұрын
USAID is a CIA front. And have no problem financing two sides at once. They make money no matter who is fighting and get economic opportunities as wel
Why can none of these experts answer any question. Always misdirection and in truths aka lies.
@tlindsay1007
Ай бұрын
They are trained to deflect.--A Marxist tactic
STOP ASSISTING ANYONE IN GAZA
@TheSirSalt
15 сағат бұрын
STOP ASSISTING ANYONE IN ISRAEL.
She seems pretty full of herself. Her hand seems to be in control here.
@tlindsay1007
Ай бұрын
Yep. Her message is, "Talk to the hand.". 😂😂
This is why you should never never never donate money to overseas charity organizations. Only a very small fraction of money you donate goes to what you thought it was going to. Your Taxpayer dollars already goes to all these charities and international charities.
@Paul-zf8ob
Ай бұрын
More tunnel money!
2:33 I have no idea where the money is. I just know that it's somewhere between Narnia and Gaza.
@will2023-onCensorshipTub
Ай бұрын
Oh if she is giving money to hamas you can bet she knows who is getting paid and they know who is doing the paying.
@will2023-onCensorshipTub
Ай бұрын
And we know how they use USAID ' if you dont do what i tell you then you aint getting the money '
@nancyfalk8073
Ай бұрын
@johnwoodlief1449 😂
@simongross3122
Ай бұрын
Some of it is still stuck at the back of the wardrobe
@nancyfalk8073
Ай бұрын
😂
Arrest this woman for proper questioning,she is lying.
According to her, sending money to Gaza is an investment. Guess the billions of dollars "invested" in Iran is really earning great dividends too.
@Hc_tbc500
Ай бұрын
Investing in Jihad
@dannibble
Ай бұрын
Half the population are children and Israel's original plan was to literally starve them. Also what administration was caught selling weapons to Iran? Oh that's right, Reagan.
@peterpan8263
Ай бұрын
It’s Iran’s money we put Sanctions on them, Who overthrew democratically elected president in 1953 for British petroleum & put puppet in office ?
@peterpan8263
Ай бұрын
Who overthrew Iran’s government in 1953 for BP Dulles head of the CIA. That’s their money.
@mohamadromzee7394
Ай бұрын
American tax payers gave billions to the Israelis to maintain a racist apartheid rule over millions of Palestinians. The Israelis also blocked Gaza by land, sea and air making Gaza some people say an open air prison or a concentration camp. Prisoners don't go out and have to depend on outside for food and necessities. If Americans support imprisoning the Gazans then they should pay for food and necessities for their prisoners and not starve them to death.
This has got to STOP immediately.
@riverotter68
Ай бұрын
so no aid to Gaza?
@mohamadromzee7394
Ай бұрын
What they give to Gaza is nothing in comparison to the yearly billions that American tax payers give to the Israelis to maintain a racist and violent apartheid rule over the indigenous Palestinian population.
@Malekbond-nq5zc
Ай бұрын
No aid to israil
@andy150100
Ай бұрын
@@riverotter68 Yes, no aid to Gaza, they can get it from Egypt or Jordan, their neighbours and also the people who Governed Palestine before 1980s
@johnohara197
Ай бұрын
@@riverotter68 Yes no aid!!! To terrorist's simple! So let me ask you a question, out of the 50 Islamic Countries in the World, how much aid do they supply to Gaza, in comparison to the USA and Europe?
10% for the Big Guy.
100m US aid to Gaza. Billions in US arms to Isreal.
@anna-tn8mg
Ай бұрын
Hi Goebbels
@userxyz64
Ай бұрын
@@anna-tn8mg Hi troll, who has nothing much to say other than call people names - I had a look at your other comments.
@anna-tn8mg
Ай бұрын
@@userxyz64 Said Goebbels
@userxyz64
Ай бұрын
@@anna-tn8mg says your YT comment list.
Where is all this money?
@morasoussif4168
Ай бұрын
Chez bibi son patron
@trimerybroymar5618
Ай бұрын
Not in my pockets.😢
Money the government spends is not an "investment". Investing is when I keep my money and buy private assets for myself.
Hopefully Trump just shuts down the USAID agency, amongst many others.
So lady, who makes the check? To whom are they payable and for what amount and on what date? What bank? Got a spread sheet? An accountant? An audit? Wow! Just wow!
1:13 - she calls money to gaza investments...
@morasoussif4168
Ай бұрын
she calls money to israel BIBI investments...
@lisafeck1537
4 күн бұрын
I caught that. "Investments", really...
Why is this beautiful humanity 100 million not helping Americans who are hungry
@lbthingsstuffmore9513
3 күн бұрын
Because Republicons keep cutting the funding! Shame on them! 🗳💙⚖️🇺🇸
@josephcivitano4290
3 күн бұрын
Weird that it didn't passed when the democrats controlled all 3 parts of the executive branch
@brint649649
2 күн бұрын
Lol okay
The money ended up in Qatar for billionaire Hamas leaders
This money alway makes new millionaire Nobody really knows who gets the money. 😢
@user3567tgyhzz
Ай бұрын
How about billionaires? Hamas now has what...3 or 4 billionaires living in luxury in Qatar? At least one of those guys is worth 3 billion.
It i$ ALL about the money ... all those involved get their share ... their friends and family run these NGO's ...
@paineintheass233
Ай бұрын
Plus...I wouldn't be surprised if many of these NGOs are just offices and bank accounts, and do absolutely nothing in the field. Paper corps to steal our money.
@user3567tgyhzz
Ай бұрын
NGOs sure a abundant these days. Many have surfaced just during these last few years. Immigration NGOs in very large numbers.
Excuses is all they got!
How is it that people cannot give straight answers when called to testify? This is so infuriating.
It is never a good idea to give your enemies any help.
2:22 What is she talking about? Is the money greasing some wheels, paying some bribes or sitting in Tony Soprano's basement?
@morasoussif4168
Ай бұрын
pour les sionistes d' israel
If it is complicated and so inefficient why do it?
What a bunch of saying nothing from her!
Thank You Ted Cruz.
@jerrybarry562
Ай бұрын
Lyin' Ted talking nonsense.
@DarrellBeckford
Ай бұрын
@@jerrybarry562 Oh look it's Jerry or is it Barry? Oh well, same sad lonely troll.
@jerrybarry562
Ай бұрын
@@DarrellBeckford first name Jerry, last name Barry. Jeremiah- actually. Were you trying to make fun of my name? Cute
@mozoiboy
Ай бұрын
Ted doesn’t care about Americans. He is owned by AIPAC and only cares about ISRAEL
You should worry about the trillions sent to Ukraine
Wow she lies like crazy
@edwardfitzgerald3877
4 күн бұрын
Yet can't name a single lie.
$1.00 is too much, $40 million?
She lies. She knows exactly how much.
@shilpapatil745
Ай бұрын
Yep …it’s become Gaza and the rest of the world
I need to start a poster board business in DC! 😂
@tachikomakusanagi3744
Ай бұрын
If so can you please make the lettering a bit bigger?
@thegrayplace
25 күн бұрын
The land of opportunity 😂
Same my X Wife, always 20 Questions to get an answer. You didn't ask if I Text, you ask if I talk to ....! You didn't ask if I saw, you ask if I Talk.......! Never a straight answer!
@georgestavri4474
Ай бұрын
Because the questions are designed to extract the desired outcome only advantageous for the narrative.
Super Duper Karen
@runningwoods
Ай бұрын
😂
Oh my god she is assisting evil
Stop US taxpayer monies going anywhere in the region. Americans must come first...always.
If the IDF is there and knows whats going on with this money why didn’t they know about October 7?
"I don't want to say something that is inaccurate" so I'll refrain from saying anything at all. Reminds me of Blasey-Ford. Are they sisters?
@charlesanderson9277
24 күн бұрын
THEY LOOK AND ACT LIKE IDENTICAL TWINS ( GIVE ME MONEY ) !
She could have just answered: "Yes, Hamas is stealing a significant portion of the aid we are paying to be sent into Gaza, but we believe that our aid campaign is still worth continuing because it is keeping a significant number of the Gaza civilians alive." If she had said that, then she would not have needed to lie about anything and could have continued from that moral foundation for the aid campaign, and had a coherent debate with the senators.
@arefinkamal7654
Ай бұрын
What's the evidence that Hamas is stealing the aid?
How about you give that funding to inner city American schools and their neighborhood. Create jobs here so that drug pushing is less desirable or necessary for earnings. How about an incentive to keep families together and employ those dads who are released from prison. Maybe all that money could be used for elderly Americans who have fixed incomes of which this inflation is straining. Let's say you properly fund daycares so parents can feel confident in their professional care or fund a parent for staying home with their own child with a guaranted return to their career after 36 months, or until they begin school. I'm tired of all these give aways to foreign countries. Fund the security of our borders, that's just the basic responsibility of our leaders. It is after all the American worker's money. Stop giving it away as if it's the sweepstakes to foreign aid.
@lisavanoni6552
Ай бұрын
Thank you for your comments wish u were running things instead of them
@mozoiboy
Ай бұрын
100% agree . The US should end its military funding in the BILLIONS to Israel .
@bradbarnett5464
Ай бұрын
@@mozoiboy Test your handstand abilities. It may take several attempts. Once you finally attain balance, immediately let go.
@teresabarrett8339
Ай бұрын
Way too much money going out of our country to "others", and far too little staying here at home to help actual US citizens. This has to stop!!!!
@NewOrleansSeptember
Ай бұрын
USAID is a CIA front. And have no problem financing two sides at once. They make money no matter who is fighting and get economic opportunities as well.
How do you tell a liar! You listen to them 😅... Lord, help us
She should know
Is there ONE....ONLY ONE who can answer a question directly instead of stonewalling EVERY TIME!! Why are they in those Highly paid jobs?????
Her hands are doing the talking , while her mouth is lying. 🤚🤚🤚🗣️🗣️🗣️
They're never prepared with answers.
To not know how much of our hard working tax $ has been used is insane.
100 million? I am broke from paying IRS today.....no shame wasting money
@robertanderson6929
Ай бұрын
The BIG lie is that we live in a democratic republic where we elect representatives to govern us by the will of the people. The way you know this is the Big Lie is to imagine just how many of your fellow citizens, excluding defense contractor employees and their families, you would have to ask before you found 100 who would agree with sending $65 billion to protect Ukraine's borders and to pay its soldiers rather than use some of that money to protect our own borders and to care for our own soldiers and veterans? 1,000? 10,000? How many would you need to ask before finding 100 who would agree that Congress should be able to pass secret information to family members so they can profit from insider trading? How many would you need to ask before finding 100 who would agree that the gov't should take children away from parents who don't want to interrupt their child's development by blocking puberty with powerful drugs? When your so-called representative government enacts policies which are NOT supported by even 10% of the population and may not be supported by even 1% of the population then you know that the idea that we have a representative democracy and are ruled by the will of the people IS THE BIG LIE. And from that lie all the others flow.
@chxwv
Ай бұрын
24 billions to the apartheid state ?
Nothing for Gaza, WTH is wrong with these people!
Isn't she saying something like "To be specidic to your unprecise question"... and she stretches and stretches a lengthv looooong answer... You never get precise answer... Isn't she giving precisely un-precise general answers or what...?
hamas or the people of gaza? come on now.
You know Joey is getting his 10 %
"I can't say," means she's stealing the money
Nice job Ted! AIPAC briefing was brief, concise according to the Is’li script and the check is in the mail.
Another Clinton Era State Dept Apparachik
if she wants to give them money let her and her friends dig in their own pockets i dont want any of my money going to hamas
@Lurch685
Ай бұрын
I don’t want any of my money going to Israel.
@OldboyMoy
Ай бұрын
And yet you can’t afford healthcare and college because a big junk of your tax dollars cause to Israel. Ironic.
@bernie4life
Ай бұрын
Agreed
@OldboyMoy
Ай бұрын
What about the billions of your tx dollrs goijng to Isral?
Lies constant back flipping
Investments.?????
How come they don’t care about us?
This sounds like money Laundry Scheme
Samantha is BEWITCHED NO POWER
A blind man could see the lies disgrace
Not just no, but FK NO. Enough
She knows how much she’s spent, they don’t want to say!!😂
She's a weasel but SMART
She just said she doesn’t have evidence
What the hell is that thing on the ladies right side?’
Why are we giving all our money to places that couldn't care less about us???? Keep the money here!
AGAIN NO MORE FOREIGN AID, to any country but allies.
tell the truth try that!
Trump2024!! "Time to clean house."
Don't bring them money. Bring them food. Or does the food get sold to buy weapons?
I guess she is pro raype
The reason the food trucks dont get thru is because Hamas takes them as soon as they drive in
@user3567tgyhzz
Ай бұрын
They are getting through.
Aid should go to the starving and the homeless and those without electricity, water, meds etc.
Excuses to Jam Agenda down Senators Throats. Evil
Sam is no truth teller she plays games with her buddy Stinkin Blinkin
What The Fuck Are We Mother To The Whole Just Give Them Tax payer Money For Free What About USA And people structure USA Doesn't Matter, FJB
Ted Cruz being exceptionally narrow minded
To her credit, she talks out of both sides of her mouth simultaneously, has solid mastery of the doublespeak, and shows impressive skills in her ability to divert and distract
I'm surprised her hair isn't purple.
Yes you’re right Ted.
Is there humanitarian aid going to other countries with starving people?
She's NOT doing her JOB
It's not unusual for the aid to go where it's not supposed to. Just last summer (2023), USAID had to stop delivering aid to Ethiopia (Africa) because of the country's leaders diverting the aid for their benefit.
This is my money, this is your money...
I’ve got to give her some credit. She actually engaged the questions
They have 36 hospitals in Gaza
Heming and hawing.
From USAID website dated 27 Feb 2024..."Today, Administrator Samantha Power announced that the United States, through USAID, will provide an additional $53 million in urgently needed humanitarian assistance for the people of Gaza and the West Bank affected by the ongoing conflict. This brings the total amount of funding announced by the U.S. government since October 7 to more than $180 million."
She knows there are 600 patients seen every day, but does not know how much money they were given tl care for the 600 patients. She knew, exactly *why* she was called to come to congress, yet cannot answer any questions related to the resaon she was called to testify.
What punishment these people get when found guilty ??? God is watching repent from your sins and sin no more