Multiple food programs are at risk after things were put on hold. I would call that legitimate charitable expenditures.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/10/usaid-trump-elon-musk-cuts
I was unaware the US government has a duty to become a charity organization for other countries.
I recall a story about a representative in the late 1800s visiting his constituents to talk about the things he wants to do to help the country and, of course, win their support in his upcoming reelection.
One wealthy rancher had a chance to speak to his representative alone. One of the bills the representative recently voted for was for flood recovery assistance for people in Ohio. The rancher explained: Nowhere in the Constitution does it say the federal government has the duty, nor the authority, to spend taxes collected from all the states on charitable programs. Churches, philanthropists and volunteers have been providing charitable services for the unfortunate forever. By the government stepping in, all those groups and individuals will expect the government to continue that service in every disaster or unfortunate situation where people can't do for themselves. As such, people will feel less of a need to donate or volunteer since the government is doing the job.
Taking my taxes to perform relief work is not charity -- it is theft. It's theft of our taxes to do something the Constitution does not empower the government to do.
There are no "legitimate charitable expenditures" when I as an individual tax payer and voter was never asked if I want my taxes to go to that charity. Now the government is giving my taxes to groups and relief efforts I may not agree with, and in so doing will demand even more taxes to do all the things they should be doing according to the Constitution.
Spare me the emotional arguments that we are our brothers' keepers or that but for the grace of God go I. It's not the government's role -- a role they not only stole from actual charities, but also discourages charities from continuing to do. Why pay taxes into a "charitable" government as well as donate to charities? I'd be paying double for the same charitable work, at least half of which supports a bloated, inefficient staff of paid employees rather than performing with the aid of unpaid volunteers.