One elected Democrat official decided to step up and defend an item that any person with common sense would deem absolutely asinine.
Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) appeared on CNN on Saturday and was asked about the Trump Administration’s efforts to close down USAID.
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, USAID has been in the crosshairs for the past week, given the billions of dollars of waste exposed by DOGE. Some of the examples exposed have been absolutely stunning.
In one instance, the agency funneled $5 billion in 2014 to ignite riots in Ukraine, according to RFK Jr.
While it would be otherwise expected for a Democrat to smear Trump as heartless and cruel regarding his stance on getting rid of government waste, Coons decided to embarrass himself for an different reason on national television.
During their discussion, host Michael Smerconish asked the Delaware senator if he could justify spending $20 million of taxpayer money on Sesame Street in Iraq.
“Is funding Sesame Street (in Iraq) a judicious use of soft power?” Smerconish asked.
Instead avoiding the question as one would expect from a dishonest Democrat, Coons went ALL IN on defending the indefensible with this insane response.
“This isn’t just funding a kids show for children, millions of children in countries like Iraq,” Coons claimed.
“It’s a show that helps teach values, helps teach public health, helps prevent kids from dying from dysentery and disease, and helps push values like collaboration, peacefulness, cooperation in a society where the alternative is ISIS extremism and terrorism,” he added.
Spending money on publicly funded television in America is bad enough, but trying to justify its use in a country that has been all-but taken over Iran is another level of bad.
WATCH:
Democrats are now reduced to desperately defending the indefensible on USAID.
Sen Chris Coons explains that sending $20M US taxpayer dollars to Iraq for Sesame Street is completely justified:
“It’s a show that helps teach values.” pic.twitter.com/Lbilz4UuN0
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) February 8, 2025
Coons then proceeded to insult the intelligence of every American when he dismissed the inexcusable outlay as just a drop in the bucket.
“It’s pennies on the dollar,” he continued. “The Department of Defense has an annual budget of $850 billion. USAID was spending about $30 billion.”
Coons then invoked Joe Biden’s name to continue to defend this ridiculous waste of money and called it “smart power.”
“It’s a small proportion of our overall federal spending. And as Joe and I would often say, it’s not just soft power, it’s smart power.”
There’s nothing smart about Biden nor the money being wasted across the federal government, particularly by USAID. But these facts go right over Coons’ head.
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