USAID Hearing Airs All the Jaw-Dropping Receipts

TownHall ^ | 2/13/25 | Mia Cathell

[CFW]

House Republicans brought the receipts to this week's "USAID Betrayal" hearing exposing the U.S. international aid agency's widespread waste and abuse of American tax dollars.

Amid intense examination of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)'s spending spree, Rep. Andy Barr (R-KY), a majority member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, listed off more ways USAID has wasted taxpayer money.

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According to the congressional committee's findings, USAID spent:

$11.75 million on measuring the effectiveness of DEI promotion efforts in Nepal (Award ID #AID367C1500001);

$750,000 on Princeton University's DEI survey in the Middle East (Award ID #7200AA21C00087);

$859,000 on hiring a DEI specialist at USAID's headquarters in Washington, D.C. (Award ID #720BHA23S00034);

$23,000 on hosting DEI recruitment seminars in San Martin, Iquitos, and Lima, Peru (Award ID #72052723P00066);

$558,000 on "emergency" DEI support (Award ID #7200AA22C00075);

$1 million on hiring an LGBT advisor for USAID's U.S. Personal Services Contractor program (Award ID #7200AA22S00012);

$15,500 on a DEI staff retreat in Nigeria (Award ID #72062023P00088);

$100,000 to conduct a DEI survey in Ghana (Award ID #72062423C00002);

$50,000 on the establishment of a DEI fellowship in Uzbekistan (Award ID #72012224P00001);

$30,280 on "DEIA-facilitated conversations" in Senegal (Award IDs #72068523F50009, #72068520A00009);

$23,300 on purchasing promotional materials for an upcoming DEI retreat (Award ID #720RFS22PC00011).

[CFW]

And that's not all! Warning: Take your blood pressure meds before reading the entire article and the list of some of the additional spending outlays.

[CFW]

Here is the link to the full hearing if you’ve nothing better to do on Valentine’s Day eve.

https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/hearing/the-usaid-betrayal/#

[xp38]

Anyone remember the Golden Fleece award?

[Seruzawa]

These are all just payouts to pals.

[piasa]

$859,000 on hiring a DEI specialist at USAID’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. (Award ID #720BHA23S00034);

That’s ONE expensive “DEI specialist?” Whose kid is it?

[Just mythoughts]

Talk about funding ‘mass’ confusion.. Babel, Babylon means ‘confusion’!

[dagunk]

Anyone remember the Golden Fleece award?

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Yeah but I’m an Old Fart.

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

Fake titles to launder the money. Simple as that.

[piasa]

$1 million on hiring an LGBT advisor for USAID’s U.S. Personal Services Contractor program (Award ID #7200AA22S00012)

All that for just ONE useless counterproductive person?

[Jim W N]

The tip of the gov’t waste and illegality iceberg.

[joshua c]

was that proxmire?

[pierrem15]

All those circumsicion grants: "Mahels R Us" must have been cleaning up!

"Today's special: half off! Just kidding! Oy!"

[srmanuel]

Remember the big money exists in Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and the Military.

The fraud and abuse of funds is in the hundreds of billions in those departments.

[xp38]

Yep. A dim surprisingly.

[CatOwner]

I wonder if Trump knew it was this bad prior to being re-elected, or if the level of corruption is a surprise even to him?

[odawg]

“$100,000 to conduct a DEI survey in Ghana”

That is a fictitious accounting entry; the money certainly never went to Ghana but to someone’s pocket in Washington D C.

[linMcHlp]

bttt

[Tell It Right]

$65.7 million on vasectomies in the Congo (Award ID #7200AA20CA00011);

See? Trump shutting this down is saving EV's by making sure there are future slave children to work the cobalt mines in Congo. /sarc

[ComputerGuy]

That DEI crap was/is expensive!