This congressman was just on Jake Tapper making all the claims below that went through USAID. Tapper said he didn't have that info to debunk it or support it and Congressman Mast said he would provide all the evidence to CNN directly after the interview. I hope this guy is FOS bc these would all be very troubling expenditures on the taxpayer dime. I know the claim that $50 mil for condoms for Gaza evaporated so my guess is this is just more of the same:
.
.$15 million for condoms to the Taliban through USAID.
.
$446,700 to promote the expansion of atheism in Nepal through the State Department.
.
$1 million to boost French-speaking LGBTQ groups in West and Central Africa through the State Department.
.
$14 million in cash vouchers for migrants at the southern border through the State Department.
.
. $47,020 for a transgender opera in Colombia through the State Department.
. $32,000 for an LGBTQ-centered comic book in Peru through the State Department.
. $55,750 for a climate change presentation warning about the impact of climate change in Argentina to be led by female and LGBT journalists through the StateDepartment.
. $3,315,446 for “being LGBTQ in the Caribbean” through USAID.
. $7,071.58 for a BIPOC speaker series in Canada through the State Department.
. $80,000 for an LGBTQ community center in Bratislava, Slovakia through the State Department.
. $3.2 million to help Tunisian migrants readjust to life in Tunisia after deportation through the State Department.
. $16,500 to foster a “united and equal queer-feminist discourse in Albanian society” through the State Department.
. $10,000 to pressure Lithuanian corporations to promote “DEI values” through the State Department.
. $8,000 to promote DEI among LGBTQ groups in Cyprus through the State Department.
. $1.5 million to promote job opportunities for LGBTQ individuals in Serbia through USAID.
. $70,884 to create a U.S.-Irish musical to promote DEI in Ireland through the State Department.
. $39,652 to host seminars at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on gender identity and racial equality through the State Department.
. $2.5 million to build electric vehicle charging stations in Vietnam’s largest cities through USAID.
. $425,622 to help Indonesian coffee companies become more climate and gender friendly through USAID.
"Your" leftie pals will throw a shit fit for even questioning this...
But Yeah, it's pretty egregious.
All your side can do is bend the knee and kiss Trump's ass. I want the truth about all those things listed. If they are happening, it's a disgrace and there clearly needs to be reform. That said, you dont throw the baby out with the bath water. You dont ELIMINATE USAID, you REFORM it. You keep the good (and yes Republicans, that entity does a tremendous amount of good) and you cut out the bad.
.
It is the equivalent of your house needing a new roof, but is essentially in good shape otherwise, and contractor Trump comes along and bulldozes the entire house to the ground.
Just look it up on USASpending.
RR is correct - the expenditures for 'these' activities are a FRACTION of the overall USAID budget and just a few items. If they are so outrageous for filthy maga traitor cunts to accept, then cancel those SPECIFIC items and not the entirety of USAID. This position of the filthy maga traitor cunts simply HELPS filthy war criminal putin and ALL other authoritarian dictators and despots. filthy maga traitor cunts.
We have a 36 trillion dollar debt, Chinchilla. 36 trillion. The deficit is 2 trillion. If USAID is so easily used to fund obvious bullshit then we need to shut the whole thing down.
You can kill this program and all others like it, get rid of the Dept. of Education, furlough half of US employees and you STILL won't have made a meaningful dent in it.
Most of our debt results from our military budget and entitlement programs, ALL of which Trump has put off limits.
So this whole DOGE effort is an elaborate farce, meant to make righties like Wanker feel good.
RR is correct - the expenditures for 'these' activities are a FRACTION of the overall USAID budget and just a few items. If they are so outrageous for filthy maga traitor cunts to accept, then cancel those SPECIFIC items and not the entirety of USAID. This position of the filthy maga traitor cunts simply HELPS filthy war criminal putin and ALL other authoritarian dictators and despots. filthy maga traitor cunts.
And while those listed are a fraction of the USAID budget those are a tiny fraction of that type of expenditures and nefarious activities that USAID engages.
While there is some good they do and that is why it agency is being handed to the State Dept. so the bullshit and waste can be weeded out and eliminated.
BTW you might want to try Bravecto. Perhaps it will help with the infestation another one of your issues.
This is why the Dems are losing their shit over the closure of this agency. As they continue to investigate, you are also going to find there are massive kickbacks going to bureaucrats (and some politicians) who are supplementing their incomes by directing taxpayer dollars to these outrageous expenditures by the government. This is a slush fund that the Dems use much the way a business has a "petty-cash" fund for expenditures that may not pass the sniff test to be tax deductible. The IRS will often not ask for details on funds used for miscellaneous, relatively small expenditures, and simply labeled as a "petty cash" deduction. The problem comes when employees steal from petty cash and cannot be held accountable. The government bureaucrat version is to take a kickback from the recipient of the funds.
Trump doubled down on the lie. Now he claims we gave Hamas
$100 million in condoms. You can’t make this shit up…but Trump sure can:
$250,000,000 to the National Democratic Institute, to fund "Democratic principles around the world." According to some of those around Musk, they are still uncovering how much was given to foreign interests by USAID, but it appears that it might be as much as a quarter of a trillion dollars. THAT'S a lot of fucking money-laundering, fraud and kick-backs, but I'm sure there are plenty of Dems in the bureaucracy that have become accustomed to getting a piece of the pie. When they get to where $80,000 a year employees are making another $200,000 on the side in kick-backs, the prosecutions will start by Pam Bondi. Half the DC bureaucrats may end up behind bars when it's over. There appears to be no end to the graft and corruption in DC and it's on a much bigger scale than anyone thought.
Are they also investigating the International Republican Institute that gets Fed money? They also want to advance freedom and democracy worldwide.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Republican_Institute
"The International Republican Institute (IRI) is an American nonprofit organization founded in 1983 and funded and supported by the United States federal government.[3] Most of its board is drawn from the Republican Party.[4] Its public mission is to advance freedom and democracy worldwide by helping political parties to become more issue-based and responsive, assisting citizens to participate in government planning, and working to increase the role of marginalized groups in the political process, including women and youth. ..."
.
The IRI gets a lot of their funding from the National Endowment for Democracy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Endowment_for_Democracy
$250,000,000 to the National Democratic Institute, to fund "Democratic principles around the world." According to some of those around Musk, they are still uncovering how much was given to foreign interests by USAID, but it appears that it might be as much as a quarter of a trillion dollars. THAT'S a lot of fucking money-laundering, fraud and kick-backs, but I'm sure there are plenty of Dems in the bureaucracy that have become accustomed to getting a piece of the pie. When they get to where $80,000 a year employees are making another $200,000 on the side in kick-backs, the prosecutions will start by Pam Bondi. Half the DC bureaucrats may end up behind bars when it's over. There appears to be no end to the graft and corruption in DC and it's on a much bigger scale than anyone thought.
It would be a shame if a CIA front group laundered money to BLM to help swing a Presidential election. Or used to fund the creation of a Covid bioweapon to help swing an election. Or used to fund the impeachment of Trump for bullshit reasons.
You Dems regretting that lawfare yet?