Tuesday, March 25, 2025

11 Insane Things Your Tax Dollars Paid For Thanks To USAID

From The Federalist.com (Feb. 4):

Democrats on Capitol Hill suffered a meltdown Monday after President Donald Trump moved to rein in the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

The agency, which had been unilaterally established under an executive order by President John F. Kennedy in 1961 and was ostensibly created to offer foreign financial assistance promoting sustainable development. In the nearly 65 years since USAID was created, however, the global welfare agency succumbed to the worst impulses of the administrative state, with bureaucrats exploiting their authority over tax dollars to drive international censorship and regime change.

“It’s been run by a bunch of radical lunatics, and we’re getting them out,” Trump told reporters Sunday.

Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., complained at a press conference of congressional Democrats that USAID could no longer be leveraged to engage in overseas nation-building.

“I am exceptionally upset about USAID,” she said, characterizing the agency as America’s vehicle of “soft power.”

In an interview with Fox News, however, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the agency had become filled with “rank insubordination.”

“They just think they’re a global entity and that their master is the globe and not the United States. And that’s not sustainable,” Rubio said.

Rubio told reporters on his first foreign trip to Latin America he is now the acting director of USAID after employees and congressional Democrats were locked out of the headquarters this week.

“There are a lot of functions of USAID that are going to continue, that are going to be part of American foreign policy, but it has to be aligned with American foreign policy,” Rubio said in El Salvador.

A review of its recent priorities reveal the agency had more to do with far-left social engineering overseas than responsible diplomacy. Here’s a look at what USAID has been funding with American tax dollars:

DEI Initiatives Abroad

Last week, the Daily Mail reported on a myriad of programs supported by USAID which will now lose funding after Trump’s executive orders “sealed the spigot of U.S. taxpayer dollars flowing to DEI projects abroad.” Items include $70,000 for a “DEI musical” in Ireland, $47,000 for a “transgender opera” in Colombia, $32,000 for a “transgender comic book” in Peru, and $1.5 million for an LGBT jobs program in Serbia.

The Daily Caller also reported in September USAID delivered a $2 million grant to Guatemalan activists “to help organizations led by transexuals perform sex changes in the country.” The program was scheduled to begin in April and run until 2027.

Electric Vehicles In Vietnam

According to the Daily Mail last week, USAID “awarded $2.5 million for electric vehicles for Vietnam” under President Biden.

“Since the huge investment of U.S. taxpayer dollars there has been at least one battery station built, avoiding a total of 260 gallons of gas, according to the USAID website,” the Daily Mail reported. “An average semi-truck holds roughly, by comparison, holds about 130 gallons of gas.” [read more]

America's hard earned tax money hard at work--being wasted. Just awful. 

The rest of things your tax dollars paid for:

  1. Egyptian Infrastructure
  2. Group Allegedly Linked To Terrorism
  3. Meals For Terrorists
  4. EcoHealth Alliance
  5. Personalized Contraception
  6. Afghan Opium
  7. Fake HIV Prevention Workshop To Engineer Regime Change
  8. Global Censorship
  9. British Broadcast Media

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