USAID On The Chopping Block for Un-American Activities
A profoundly informative video: Tucker Carlson Interviews Mike Benz About USAID, NED and CIA Revelations.
$8 million in taxpayer dollars that have gone to essentially subsidizing subscriptions to Politico on the American taxpayers’ dime, Breitbart, 5 February 2025.
USAID Funded Massive 'News' Platform, Extending 'Censorship Industrial Complex' To Billions Worldwide, Zero Hedge, 9 February 2025.
USAID Sent Over $18 Billion to Islamic Terror States - Why USAID is a national security threat, Front Page Magazine, 12 February 2025.
Questions Swirl Over $9 Million DoD Funding for Reuters “Active Social Engineering” Program, Vigalent News, 7 February 2025.
The Most Outrageous, Horrific Things USAID Did With Your Tax Dollars, Townhall, 5 February 2025:
USAID poured $2 million into Asociación Lambda, a Guatemalan LGBTQ+ activist organization, to "strengthen trans-led" activism and provide "gender-affirming health care,"...
$1 million went toward supporting French-speaking LGBTQ+ groups in West and Central Africa, $3.3 million was blown on normalizing "being LGBTQ in the Caribbean," and $425,600 helped Indonesian coffee companies become "more climate and gender friendly."...
... $1.5 million had gone toward promoting job opportunities for LGBTQ-identifying individuals in Serbia, $16,500 for fostering a "united and equal queer-feminist discourse in Albanian society," $47,000-plus on a "transgender opera" in Colombia, $32,000 for an LGBTQ-centered comic book in Peru, $70,880 on a musical promoting DEI in Ireland, $20,600 for a drag show in Ecuador, over $7,000 for a BIPOC speaker series in Canada, more than $39,650 to host seminars at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on "gender identity and racial equality," $80,000 on an LGBTQ community center in Slovakia, $10,000 on pressuring Lithuanian corporations to push DEI messaging, and $8,000 to promote DEI among LGBTQ+ groups in Cyprus...
... $1 million to help disabled people in Tajikistan become "climate leaders."... $1.5 million effort aimed at "empowering women to adapt to climate change in northern Kenya."...
Do you want your tax dollars spent on this crap? What the flicking hell!
Even a short list of how USAID spent our money is outrageous *UPDATED*, by Andrea Widburg, American Thinker, 4 February 2025.
New York Slimes received $3.1 million of taxpayer money:
USAID funding:
New York Times $3.1M
Politico $32M
BBC $3.2M (approximate)
Defunding USAID Isn’t About Reducing The Deficit, It’s About Shutting Down Left-Wing Propaganda, by John Daniel Davidson, The Federalist, 5 February 2025:
USAID isn’t just a ridiculous scam on U.S. taxpayers, it funds leftist causes that erode western civilization and destroy traditional values... The point is to expose USAID for the left-wing propaganda and regime change operation that it has become, and to shut it down...
One anonymous X user, @DataRepublican, created a searchable database of federal government grants that’s helped uncover even more outrageous projects funded by USAID. Some of these are genuinely funny and easy to ridicule. For example, a $30 million grant for an organization that funds women making ponchos in the Guatemalan highlands and bankrolls “community organizing” in Burkina Faso. Or a $20 million grant for a Sesame Street-style show in Iraq, a $2 million grant to promote pottery in Morocco, and $15 million for condoms and contraceptives in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan...
The common theme in many of these grants is that they push LGBTQ, green, and woke ideologies under the pretext of fighting poverty and promoting democracy abroad...
... huge amounts of taxpayer dollars, through both the State Department and USAID (the former operating as a passthrough to the latter), go to NGOs stacked with establishment politicians from both parties - basically, the Washington uniparty...
Blistering moment Karoline Leavitt rips absurd USAID spending to shreds in front of stunned reporters, Daily Mail, 4 February 2024:
$1.5 million to advance DEI in Serbia's workplaces, $70,000 for a production of a DEI musical in Ireland, $47,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia, $32,000 for a transgender comic book in Peru...
'I don't know about you, but as an American taxpayer I don't want my dollars going toward this crap.
'And I know the American people don't either, and that's exactly what Elon Musk has been tasked by President Trump to do - to get the fraud, waste and abuse out of the federal government.'
The Blob War, by Z Man, 4 February 2025:
... there has been no oversight of USAID. It has been free, for example, to give money to George Soros organizations that do things like back candidates for state prosecutor in the United States. That seems like an odd use of foreign aid, but it really is the tip of the iceberg, which is why Trump is closing it down. That lack of oversight plus decades of existence created an organization that was operating like a government outside the government that financed it.
Of course, much of its activity was aimed at foreign governments. USAID backed the failed color revolution in Georgia last year... The 2005 Orange revolution in Ukraine and the 2014 Maiden coup in 2014 were both underwritten by USAID...
As you would expect, the neocons are dug in like ticks in the network supported by USAID...
There is another aspect of the USAID scandal. One of the organizations it funds is called National Endowment for Democracy, which like USAID is an independent not-for-profit that was created by the National Security Decision Directive 77, signed by Ronald Reagan in 1981. The alleged purpose is to spread democracy, but in reality, it is just another wealthy node in the informal network of formal and informal nodes that make up the shadow government.
Half of the budget of NED is allocated to the American Center for International Labor Solidarity (AFL–CIO), the Center for International Private Enterprise (Chamber of Commerce), the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (Democratic Party), and the International Republican Institute (Republican Party). If you are curious as to why Joni Ernst tried to block Pete Hegseth’s nomination, check out the board of the International Republican Institute...
The War On The Shadows, by Z Man, 29 January 2025.
USAID Sent Over $18 Billion to Islamic Terror States, Front Page Magazine, 7 February 2025.
Turns out the ‘Deep State’ used USAID to OUST Bolsonaro from Brazil, Revolver, 6 February 2025.
USAID helped fund the ‘Soros prosecutors’, by Andrea Widburg, AMerican Thinker, 6 February 2025:
... One of the causes with the greatest impact has been funding “Soros prosecutors”—hard-left lawyers who refuse to prosecute criminals but enthusiastically prosecuted Trump and other conservatives. It now appears that some large amounts of the money the Soros organizations used to get these prosecutors in office came from USAID.
The story begins with the Tides Foundation and the Tides Center, a grant-giving organization. Here’s a short version of what Discover the Networks (“DtN”) says about these two related organizations... Leftist non-profits can also get money from Tide and then funnel it to their affiliated for-profit organizations. The whole thing was set up as a scam and a cover...
After 9/11, Tides started getting huge sums of money from George Soros’s infamous Open Society Foundation (which has roughly $11 billion in assets), which is another hard-left organization dedicated to the West’s destruction in favor of an imaginary one-world paradise. The Tides Foundation, in turn, sent that money to Soros’s Shadow Party, which funds the Democrat party...
... George Soros began funding campaigns for people who became known as the “Soros prosecutors.”...
Every one of those prosecutors is a radical leftist who immediately set about remaking the local justice system in accordance with leftist values: Criminals are victims of the system and should not be prosecuted; Republicans are enemies of the people and should be prosecuted...
USAID Security Directors Placed on Leave for Refusing DOGE Govt Inspection - Claiming "Classified Information" as Justification, The Last Refuge, 3 February 2025.
Those who do not pretend already know the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is the cover agency for CIA influence operations worldwide. However, technically USAID is supposed to be the charitable side of U.S. government, supporting foreign countries.
If USAID is simply magnanimous and altruistic aid to foreign countries using taxpayer funds, then what exactly is the “classified material” they would need to withhold from DOGE review?
Sometimes all we need are simple questions to destroy the matrix of lies.
WASHINGTON DC – WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they refused to turn over classified material in restricted areas to Elon Musk’s government-inspection teams, a current and a former U.S. official told The Associated Press on Sunday...
Dissolving USAID into State, removes the cover. The CIA activities become more obvious. Foreign meddling, specifically messing in elections and installing foreign leaders, becomes more difficult.
FEMA Quietly Slid $59 Million Out The Door For Illegal Aliens To Put Their Feet Up At 'Luxury Hotels,' Musk Says, Daily Caller, 10 February 2025.
The Dirty Secret of DOGE: Dems Built It, by Ed Morrissey, Hot Air, 9 February 2025.
USAID - Lawyer’s Perspective on @elonmusk & @realDonaldTrump Taking On Govt Waste, by Tom Renz, X, 6 February 2025.
A Brief Note About the USAID Larger Issues – Humanitarian Aid and National Security, The Last Refuge, 9 February 2025.
President Trump Signs Order to Review Federal Funding to NGOs, Geller Report, 10 February 2025.
The Real Constitutional Crisis, by John Hinderaker, PowerLine, 7 February 2025.