Posted on 02/13/2025 10:58:51 AM PST by Morgana
Shocking foreign aid spending on drag shows and other woke DEI projects abroad has been laid bare at a congressional hearing.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee held a session titled 'The USAID Betrayal' examining how the government agency, and the State Department, allocated tens of billions of dollars in recent years to 'crazy wasteful' programs.
Donald Trump and Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has recently sought to dismantle USAID after pausing all foreign aid it distributed and discovering suspicious payments.
The agency employs roughly 10,000 workers and, after Musk discovered fraud and abuse, plans have been circulated to slash the workforce from thousands to just a few hundred.
That has prompted protests around the former USAID headquarters in Washington, D.C., and outrage from Democrats who claim the agency is fundamental to American 'soft power' overseas.
Kicking off the hearing chairman Brian Mast (R-Fla.), played a video highlighting how U.S. taxpayer money went to fund a drag show workshop for Venezuelan migrants in Ecuador, what he called a clear example of how taxpayer funds had been wasted.
'We are going to show to the American people exactly what they were doing, the videos, the documents, the everything, they are going to see it,' Mast said. 'Like $25,000 for a drag show seminar for Venezuelan migrants in Ecuador.'
Then, Mast played a clip showing a drag instructor named Gladys declaring that the shows are 'a political tool' and 'a way of protesting.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
More USAID crap:
<><>$2M on transgender surgery in Guatemala,
<><>plus hormone therapy and gender affirming care in Guatemala
<><>$25,000 to fund a transgender Opera in Colombia
<><>but nobody in Columbia was willing to buy a ticket
I guess wasting taxpayer money isn’t illegal. Because I WANT TO SEE SOME PEOPLE GO TO JAIL!! IT’S STEALING!!
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