The GOP is considering cutting FBI counterintelligence by half

[Peacetrain]

Good God what do the uber right owe to the Oligarchs??? They are pulling down all republicans with them in their traitorous attempts to grab power

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/08/us/politics/house-republicans-deficit-budget-biden.html

House G.O.P. Prepares to Slash Federal Programs in Coming Budget Showdown
WASHINGTON — Hard-right House Republicans are readying a plan to gut the nation’s foreign aid budget and make deep cuts to health care, food assistance and housing programs for poor Americans in their drive to balance the federal budget, as the party toils to coalesce around a plan that will deliver on their promise to slash spending........

The outline includes a 45 percent cut to foreign aid; adding work requirements for food stamp and Medicaid beneficiaries; a 43 percent cut to housing programs, including phasing out the Section 8 program that pays a portion of monthly rent costs for low-income people; cutting the F.B.I.’s counterintelligence budget by nearly half; and eliminating Obamacare expansions to Medicaid to save tens of billions of dollars.

[Walleye]

1. Trump thought it was "impolite" to listen in on his hero, Putin's, conversations

[Darwins_Retriever]

6. That's intelligence, not counterintelligence

I sued to be an Army Counterintelligence Special Agent.

[Initech]

2. What could possibly go wrong?

Fuck these MAGA clowns.

[bluestarone]

3. We ALL know which half they would like to cut!

Dirty mother fuckers!!

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Disarming America so foreigners and the GOP can BUY IT

No different than selling it off to oligarchs. Privatization, libertarianism, Republicants, stitching together their own greed.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

5. Lol I wonder how many diehard MAGAts get Section 8 benefits

and/or care through the Medicaid expansions, and/or SNAP.

Nothing wrong with using those benefits to be clear, but a great many of them may live to regret supporting the GOP all these years.

Oh what am I saying. Fox will tell the rubes their evictions and lack of health insurance are Biden/Obama/Hillary/Dems/Big Government's fault, and they'll nod and drool on themselves.

[SWBTATTReg]

7. And these thugs worry about National Security when the concern should be directed at their own back-

yard in imperiling national security?

[PortTack]

8. JMHO...it'll never happen

[Beetwasher.]

9. Exactly What a Russian Asset Would Do

Surprise surprise.

[Rstrstx]

10. Defund the Police!

[Wounded Bear]

11. Let me guess. They want to cut the "domestic" side of anti-terrorism defense...

Right?