administration cabinet member now all of this is in many ways a slap in the face to washington and tom pos officials are now threatening to cut aid now egypt receives more than one and a half billion dollars from the u.s. government more than any other country other than israel on one hand this money was sort of used to buy friendship to keep egypt and israel on a peaceful terms it was an agreement made several years ago one of people though now are keeping their eye on what happens next aid has been sort of leverage for the united states a threat to come that aid in many ways has just made it gyptian authorities push back harder so again what happens in the next few days could mean major changes on several fronts one more thing fewer people are talking about the history of this anger towards these so-called pro-democracy groups the snot knew the u.s. has for decades been determined to spend money and resources on groups that set up camp in other countries like egypt and work with people on forwarding the u.s. agenda in those countries in many ways it's resulted in the taking down of leade