Posted on 02/05/2025 8:23:23 PM PST by Kazan
American taxpayers are no longer subsidizing foreign media once funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), prompting leftwing concern over the potential impact on global journalism and “democracy.”
President Donald Trump put a 90 day hold on all USAID’s foreign aid this week, which subsequently cut $268 million from media outlets in more than 30 countries, according to the agency’s 2025 foreign aid budget reported by Reporters Without Borders (RWB).
USAID’s 2023 fact sheet, taken offline due to the hold, boasted the agency supported 6,200 journalists, 707 news outlets, 279 media-sector civil society organizations, the Columbia Journalism Review reported.
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Globalists claim those impacted by the cuts are journalists countering Iranian and Russian propaganda, but taxpayers argue the USAID, reportedly a shell organization for CIA messaging, spent taxpayer money that pushed a left-wing narrative.
“USAID, like the National Endowment for Democracy, are well-documented CIA fronts that are designed to manipulate other countries’ internal politics for the benefits of DC elites and nobody else in the US. Both agencies have wrought destruction and can’t die soon enough,” Intercept co-founder Glenn Greenwald said on X.
J. Michael Waller, author of “Big Intel: How the CIA & FBI Went from Cold War Heroes to Deep State Villains,” said that “USAID is not a front for the CIA. It’s worse than that.”
“USAID became its own unaccountable covert operations agency,” he said. “USAID ran covert ops without a presidential finding as required by law.”
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INSANE we would be FUNDING Foreign MEDIA!!!!
Great new info—thanks.
This just gets deeper and deeper and deeper....
AID is beginning to look like the former Department Of Evil—no abomination was too great for them.
It is not just funding foreign media—it is funding foreign media that pushes a left wing policy agenda—”climate change” witch-doctoring, gender madness, DEI and a bunch of other causes ranging from kooky to dangerous.
I have repeatedly tried to tell all of you WAY before this happened that the Federal agencies were running the country. I have reached the point of just about not caring anymore, even if they return to power and try to kill all of us. No one has had the backbone to confront them. They need to be tried for treason and hanged. I have repeatedly posted that and get little support. May get to watch those who wouldn’t listen get hanged by them in the future.
DOGE not only needs auditors and cost cutters when they investigate Federal agencies but they need to be accompanied by honest law enforcement personnel and prosecutors.
He locked up Billions of $ by shutting down USAID and turning it over to Rubio in the State Department.
The media needs to find its own source of funding.
Just like any business.
When the government pays for the reporters and reporting of news, the news then should be called Pravda. Da?
How much money did Fox News, Breitbart etc get for promoting news via USAID?
Also domestic media. Politico got 8 million just from usaid, 34.3 million total from various govt agencies.
New york times got 3.1 million from usaid
I am sure other outlets like Wapo and others will be uncovered
USAID is basically a money laundering front for dems and deep state to give taxpayer money to globalist communist liberal groups and companies.
The media has no value other than propaganda. That is why you see only fringe advertising on tv or internet. Ad choices, that sleazy outfit is probably also subsidized!
Isn’t it amazing where tax payers money has been going?
None that have been seen.
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Well, still, I’m sure money did nothing to deter these news outlets from being fair, unbiased, hard working journalists with an unwavering dedication to truthful reporting.
Isn’t it amazing where tax payers money has been going?
Well, Rupert Murdoch did just meet with Trump.
And Fox News has gotten more liberal the last few years and called states early.
I don’t think much of anyone had much of an idea just how deep and widespread this DS corruption was.
Trump no doubt learned about it while in office the first time else he would not have taken the actions he did for this term.
I can see why they’ve made such concerted efforts to take him out.
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