The letter writer's source of information must be Fox News. If he would do a simple Google Search he would find out “$Bs to an African country to pay for condoms” was $50m for condoms to stop the spread of aids in Africa (USAID 2022 report). “$Bs to pay for sex changes in a Central American country” is a $2 million grant to a Guatemalan LGBTQ+ rights organization to deliver gender-affirming health care with $359,000 allocated (Snopes Fact Check Feb. 12, 2025). And no Social Security checks are going out to people over 120 years. Old. The agency automatically stops payments to people who are older than 115 years old. The confusion is because the agency keeps a master death list of everyone who has died since 1899 but some dates are unknown and therefore shown as still living (see AP News Feb. 19, 2025 for in-depth explanation).
Kathryn Baron
Midtown
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