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$60 million in government terms is, like, literally nothing.
It's money that went right into the pockets of cronies while babies were butchered by the same "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" that was allegedly there to shield them from Israeli bullets.
Saw this comment and couldn't resist the urge to figure out just how much 60 million USD actually is in this context.
Relative to the revenue of the US gov:t 2024 (~5tln USD) and the US annual minimum wage (~15k usd) roughly two dimes so... yeah basically nothing.
Next question, how much can the US gov:t achieve with basically nothing?
Meal cost estimates at 0.5$ per, 3 meals per day = 1.5$ or 40mln days worth of food. Gaza population this year ~824k up from ~800k last year (worldpopulationreview) which puts us at ~48 days of food for the entire Gazan population.
So, what's the lesson learned here?
Even Trump is willing to give two dimes of somebody elses money to a starving person... or maybe that the gov:t can achieve a fair bit with almost nothing. You decide :)