Instead of considering why Americans voted for Trump and his campaign promise to task Elon Musk with creating a Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to attack government spending, Wednesday’s CBS Evening News and Thursday’s CBS Mornings chose to tug at one’s emotional heartstrings by holding up food sent through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to starving babies in Sudan as why the agency shouldn’t be shut down.
Nothing about $400 million for LGBTQI Africans to have access to the internet, launching a social media platform in Cuba, workshops about white men threatening “gender equity” in artificial intelligence programs, $2 million for sex changes in Guatamala, or even $32,000 to produce a trans comic book in Peru. No nuance!
Starting with the former, co-anchor John Dickerson pivoted from a piece by Face the Nation host…
