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11 Insane Things Your Tax Dollars Paid For Thanks To USAID
The Federalist ^ | February 04, 2025 | Tristan Justice

Posted on 02/04/2025 11:12:30 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

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

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: usaid

1 posted on 02/04/2025 11:12:30 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Draining the swamp? Draining the polluted lakes. HOORAY Elon! HOORAY President Trump!


2 posted on 02/04/2025 11:15:39 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

quite a list for starting.................


3 posted on 02/04/2025 11:16:35 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Looks like Rubio put his finger on the problem.

USAID considers itself an globalist ‘NGO’ but it is funded by the US taxpayers.


4 posted on 02/04/2025 11:19:06 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Ilhan Omar screaming about USAID funding freeze: "I lived in a refugee camp for four years as a child. It is the essential programs that USAID provided that kept my family safe!"

That was a mistake that I hope we don't make again.

5 posted on 02/04/2025 11:20:53 AM PST by econjack
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/racist-far-left-rep-ilhan-omar-allegedly-caught/


6 posted on 02/04/2025 11:25:28 AM PST by DFG
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To: BenLurkin

I have posted to Fox elsewhere that their reporting is on only the waste and thus misleading. Trans Comics in Botswana for 40 million is really money laundering. That money has 90% siphoned off to leftist NGOs, politicians, foundations, and some leftist group set up to make comic art purchases before the comics (or whatever) are even made. It is a self perpetuating money laundering system set up for sixty years to loot our taxpayers.


7 posted on 02/04/2025 11:29:49 AM PST by KC Burke
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To: BenLurkin

Meanwhile until recently, Rubio was a board member of the IRI, International Republican Institute which does it’s share of globalist DEI.

$91,397 IN SUPPORT OF A TRAINING PROGRAM FOCUSED ON A STRATEGIC APPROACH THAT INCORPORATES A GENDER PERSPECTIVE INTO POLICYMAKING FOR CONGRESSIONAL STAFFERS TO PROMOTE ARGENTINA’S ADVANCEMENT TOWARDS A MORE EQUITABLE SOCIETY.

A grant from the US State Dept which Rubio now runs.

https://datarepublican.com/award_search/?keywords=INTERNATIONAL+REPUBLICAN+INSTITUTE

It’s a big f-in club and you ain’t in it.


8 posted on 02/04/2025 11:31:15 AM PST by Pollard (Zone 6b)
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To: Pollard

The two homosexuals screwing each other in the U.S. Capitol; were they being paid by USAID?

Is that why the whole violation of decency, propriety, and self-discipline, was covered up by the Democrat Party’s “our values”?


9 posted on 02/04/2025 11:34:30 AM PST by linMcHlp
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Grifters worried.

Audit all of their bank accounts.


10 posted on 02/04/2025 11:40:15 AM PST by Fledermaus (GOP RINOs - Get on Board or Get Out!)
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To: KC Burke

So much of it seems obviously money laundering.


11 posted on 02/04/2025 11:59:07 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

1-DEI Initiatives Abroad
2-Electric Vehicles In Vietnam
3-Egyptian Infrastructure
4-Group Allegedly Linked To Terrorism
5-Meals For Terrorists
6-EcoHealth Alliance
7-Personalized Contraception
8-Afghan Opium
9-Fake HIV Prevention Workshop To Engineer Regime Change in foreign gov’ts
10-Global Censorship
11-British Broadcast Media


12 posted on 02/04/2025 12:09:51 PM PST by citizen (Political incrementalism is like compound interest for liberals - every little bit adds up.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

good article, thanx


13 posted on 02/04/2025 2:00:46 PM PST by CarolinaReaganFan
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To: econjack

Her citizenship application needs to be investigated. If she came here by fraud she needs to be held accountable.


14 posted on 02/04/2025 4:50:12 PM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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