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USAID Hearing Airs All the Jaw-Dropping Receipts
TownHall ^ | 2/13/25 | Mia Cathell

Posted on 02/13/2025 11:41:03 AM PST by 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).

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: corruption; dei; democrats; fiduciarymalfeasance; fiduciarymisconduct; fraud; fraudwatch; ghana; misappropriation; moneylaundering; nepal; nigeria; peru; racketeering; ripoff; scam; senagal; senegal; swampocalypse; taxdollars; theft; usaid; uzbekistan
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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.
1 posted on 02/13/2025 11:41:03 AM PST by CFW
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To: 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/#


2 posted on 02/13/2025 11:42:09 AM PST by CFW
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To: CFW

Anyone remember the Golden Fleece award?


3 posted on 02/13/2025 11:43:22 AM PST by xp38
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These are all just payouts to pals.


4 posted on 02/13/2025 11:45:29 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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$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?


5 posted on 02/13/2025 11:45:31 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustmilents offered here free of charge)
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To: CFW

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


6 posted on 02/13/2025 11:46:02 AM PST by Just mythoughts (Psalm 2. Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?)
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To: xp38

Anyone remember the Golden Fleece award?

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Yeah but I’m an Old Fart.


7 posted on 02/13/2025 11:46:04 AM PST by dagunk (-- Unknown)
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To: CFW

Fake titles to launder the money. Simple as that.


8 posted on 02/13/2025 11:46:32 AM PST by IllumiNaughtyByNature (Polls are designed to sell more ads & polls only. If it's not a horse race the money dries up.)
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$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?


9 posted on 02/13/2025 11:47:16 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustmilents offered here free of charge)
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To: CFW

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


10 posted on 02/13/2025 11:47:28 AM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: xp38

was that proxmire?


11 posted on 02/13/2025 11:47:47 AM PST by joshua c
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All those circumsicion grants: "Mahels R Us" must have been cleaning up!

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

12 posted on 02/13/2025 11:47:52 AM PST by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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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.


13 posted on 02/13/2025 11:48:21 AM PST by srmanuel
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To: joshua c

Yep. A dim surprisingly.


14 posted on 02/13/2025 11:48:25 AM PST by xp38
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To: CFW

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?


15 posted on 02/13/2025 11:48:34 AM PST by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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“$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.


16 posted on 02/13/2025 11:49:15 AM PST by odawg
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bttt


17 posted on 02/13/2025 11:49:18 AM PST by linMcHlp
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$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

18 posted on 02/13/2025 11:50:18 AM PST by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: CFW

That DEI crap was/is expensive!


19 posted on 02/13/2025 11:50:54 AM PST by ComputerGuy ( )
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