Target: Scott Bessent, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
Goal: Redirect multi-billion-dollar bailout funds earmarked for Argentina’s president to critical American economic needs.
The United States is hurtling toward a 40-trillion-dollar national debt. Unemployment recently reached its highest level in four years, while inflation remains on an upward trajectory. And a weeks-long government shutdown is further rattling America’s economic stability. In the midst of all the uncertainty, the president’s administration has arrived at a solution: a 40-billion-dollar bailout…for another country.
Argentina’s controversial President Javier Milei became the beneficiary of this more-than-generous gift from his good friend President Donald Trump. Milei is politically aligned with the U.S. president, and his brash personality, relentless cutting of government programs and services, and deregulation have helped stir an economic crisis in his country that necessitates the bailout. It has also left him in political peril, sparking America’s president to wade into election interference by suggesting the bailout is contingent on Milei retaining his leadership position in an upcoming election.
Aside from the murky foreign relations aspect that sees the United States save one South American country while threatening unprovoked war with another, the bailout is drawing criticism domestically from even some of the administration’s staunchest allies. Senator Rand Paul suggested the money would be better served toward paying down the United States’ enormous debt. Senator Chuck Grassley, along with many of the American farmers he represents, worries about the optics of sending large sums of money to a country in direct competition with U.S. soybean farmers for that beleaguered agricultural market. And Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene questioned, “Americans are getting decimated with high cost of living and skyrocketing insurance costs. Many of them have zero savings and some are maxing out credit cards to survive. Tell me how it’s America First to bailout a foreign country with $20 or even $40 BILLION taxpayer dollars.”
Sign the petition below to echo the condemnations of elected leaders and the Americans they serve who want a government that works for them.
PETITION LETTER:
Dear Secretary Bessent,
This administration made America First and the revocation of foreign aid a centerpiece of its stated mission. How does bailing out a nation and a leader hamstrung by his own fiscal recklessness achieve this goal? Is it not the height of hypocrisy to claim starving children and desperate families should do without while propping up a rich and powerful man simply because he’s pals with the boss and your former colleagues?
That 40-billion-dollar gift to Argentina – courtesy of America’s taxpayers – could be better spent on America’s taxpayers and helping them achieve the lives for which they have strived and worked. A sane person in debt and living a life of extreme economic uncertainty would not borrow money to buy a friend a fancy car. Do not make the entire nation an example of what not to do.
Sincerely,
[Your Name Here]
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