Elon Musk is rumored to have spent $40 million dollars on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful. Regardless of if he did or not; USAID is less than 1% of our national budget yet saves millions of lives and actually solves the root causes of many of the problems dominating politics.
Here are just a few ways foreign aid can $40M:
🏈Bought enough emergency food-aid products made in Georgia and Rhode Island to treat 880,000 severely malnourished children
🏈Slowed the flow of migrants to our borders by providing job training and support to 50,000 people in Central America
🏈Protected 30,000,000 football fields of tropical forest in Africa, preventing China and Russia from exploiting timber and critical minerals that fuel our world
🏈Shipped the 29,000 metric tons of American food products worth $40 million on American ships instead of letting it waste away in a Texas warehouse
🏈Saved the lives of 25 million children suffering from severe malaria.
Musk thinks these are wastes of money.
This Superbowl Sunday, tell Congress to #saveforeignaid and #standwithUSAID #Superbowl #USAID
joncamfield