mado mack

[daisy 🌼 @researcherdaisy]

Hey Lisa! (can’t tag bc I’m blocked for some reason /: ) - you’re both wrong! Here are a few suggestions to help make you a better fact finder in the future along with clarifications on our current funding arrangement with Israel

First, you tweeted underneath your own post about how we should be more worried about CAIR than AIPAC. I just wanted to politely point out that you’re literally using “CAIR California” as a source around the 1:30 mark. AI summaries are typically deficient and mostly unconvincing - pulling your supporting evidence independently, rather than from AI sources, might help you avoid getting caught in a kerfuffle like this one, and increase your accuracy (and social media reach) going forward

More importantly - transparency is an imperative part of reporting. The foreign assistance website makes very clear that both FY25 and FY26 reflect incomplete datasets. It’s not that we “only sent Israel $89k” - FY26 simply hasn’t finished yet. As you mentioned, federal fiscal year starts in October and runs to Sept 30 the following year. FY26 ends at the end of next month and has not been fully reported

FY24 is complete and it shows that we provided Israel with $6.8B total. FY25 reporting is not complete, but you can see the disbursement total currently shows $3.3B . That number will certainly change to at least $3.8B

If you had done actual research on the subject, you would know we are obligated to provide Israel with, at minimum, $3.8B every year until 2028. This has been the baseline number since we renewed our MOU in 2016. You can find those details here: https://t.co/vEJPJPniGy

You can reference the full FY26 budget request here, which includes $3.3B of that baseline and was enacted into law earlier this year as part of a bill: https://t.co/sJE9dwgEmC;

Cumulatively, Israel has been the top recipient of foreign aid since it was founded at ~$300+ billion total US tax dollars

Aside from a 2yr period where Ukraine received buku funding, your claim that we provide other countries with “much more aid” is incorrect. The only two other countries besides Israel that have a guaranteed baseline of annual aid are Egypt and Jordan - and their budgets are not even close. Ironically, that money inadvertently ends up supporting Israel by guaranteeing their safety; we’ve essentially been paying off their neighbors since 1979 and 1994, respectively, under the guise of peace treaties

Hope that helps!
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[mado mack @madobmack]

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[mado mack @madobmack]

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[Freshie @JenniferLe47190]

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[mado mack @madobmack]

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[mado mack @madobmack]

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[mado mack @madobmack]

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[mado mack @madobmack]

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[kind eyes & a FAT ass @aquabarf]

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[LaineMitchell @Laine_Mitchell]

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[uuuuh @mHow250]

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[Joey⚡️ @joeygllghr]

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[mado mack @madobmack]

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[Claire McCaskill @clairecmc]

Joe Biden’s self control is Presidential.