{"id":58539,"date":"2025-02-25T12:39:31","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T17:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=58539"},"modified":"2025-02-25T12:39:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T17:39:31","slug":"misspent-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=58539","title":{"rendered":"Misspent Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/immigration\/2025\/02\/23\/report-nj-church-lays-off-195-after-getting-18-million-from-usaid-for-migrants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Breitbart<\/a> reported that a church in New Jersey has had to lay off 195 workers as a result of the cuts to USAID. The church was receiving millions from USAID to help migrants. My question is if they had to lay off 195 workers, how much of the money they were receiving actually went to the migrants?<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Leaders with the Reformed Church of Highland Park told Shore News Network they laid off 195 workers after President Donald Trump\u2019s administration stopped federal money from going to migrant resettlement programs, the website <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shorenewsnetwork.com\/2025\/02\/23\/new-jersey-church-lays-off-195-workers-after-18-million-cut-from-us-aid-used-to-fund-illegal-aliens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">reported<\/a>\u00a0Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>&#8230;The outlet said it \u201cconfirmed layoffs through a WARN notice filed with the New Jersey Department of Labor.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>It continued:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><strong>The church, which had received $18 million in aid from USAID to place migrants in jobs across New Jersey, is now struggling to keep its programs running. Reverend Seth Kaper-Dale said his organization is owed more than $1.3 million for services rendered in January alone and warned that without immediate support, key programs could collapse.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><strong>\u201cFor the past 3.5 years, we have experienced that refugees and immigrants are a blessing,\u201d Kaper-Dale said. \u201cSince January 20th, everything has collapsed.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>According to the church\u2019s <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rchighlandpark.org\/immigration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">website<\/a>, it has had an \u201cactive immigration committee since 2002, when our members first started sharing their experiences of trouble with the U.S. Immigration System.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have no objection to a church resettling migrants that are legally here with their own money. I just see no reason for the American taxpayers to have to pay for the church&#8217;s charitable activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, Breitbart reported that a church in New Jersey has had to lay off 195 workers as a result of the cuts to USAID. The church was receiving millions from USAID to help migrants. My question is if they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=58539\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10348,17751,14292],"class_list":["post-58539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-breitbart","tag-reformed-church-of-highland-park","tag-u-s-agency-for-international-development-usaid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58540,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58539\/revisions\/58540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}