Lutheran Family Services Farts

Blind Advocacy Derails Trust

Update: I added some details.

By now, you have heard Lutheran Family Services has come under scrutiny as the Department of Government Efficiency makes certain government agencies are following Executive orders.

USAID has become a prime target of investigation in the past as Iowa US Senator Joni Ernst who has fostered bi-partisan support for change (https://www.ernst.senate.gov/news/press-releases/ernst-leads-bipartisan-push-to-end-taxpayer-dollar-abuse-at-usaid).

Now, the Department of Government Efficiency shows how poorly the spending has gone. And Ernst underscored the problem (https://redstate.com/bonchie/2025/02/04/joni-ernst-drops-devestating-usaid-thread-and-you-wont-believe-where-your-money-has-been-going-n2185190). Now some defenders of government will stay the expense is less than 1 percent, but with over 400 government agencies, any cut can make the same claim in obstructing cutting government spending.

The local affiliate pleads “not guilty” but they miss the point (https://www.wowt.com/2025/02/03/lutheran-family-services-nebraska-denies-allegations-improper-funding/). Why are Federal tax dollars helping immigrants, when our own citizens are homeless (https://flatwaterfreepress.org/need-has-outpaced-capacity-omaha-unsheltered-homelessness-rising-at-fastest-rate-of-any-major-city/)? Between panhandling and homelessness, settling immigrants should take second place. But they probably received funds in the hope the immigrants would become Democrat voters. Hard to tell at this point.

Yet, the Nebraska congressional delegation is shy in confronting the excessive and wasteful spending of the Federal government. Nebraska Freedom Coalition has paid a strong attention to the issue (https://x.com/NebraskaFreedom/status/1886942155190493476). Perhaps there was something wrong on this legislation but Nebraskans need to pay attention and contact their Congressman and put more pressure on them to take down bad government spending. (You can find bill at https://www.congress.gov/amendment/118th-congress/house-amendment/1044 but changed number and was defeated in roll call vote https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2024308).