Posted on 07/01/2025 6:49:48 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
“USAID viewed its constituency as the United Nations, multinational NGOs, and the broader global community — not the U.S. taxpayers.”
The Trump administration has officially shuttered the United States Agency for International Development after rolling its operations into the State Department.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the end of the independent agency on Tuesday. Rubio said USAID funds would be better managed and more effective under State Department oversight than they have been in decades.
“USAID had decades and a near-infinite taxpayer budget to advance American influence, promote economic development worldwide, and allow billions to stand on their own two feet,” Rubio wrote in a statement. “Beyond creating a globe-spanning NGO industrial complex at taxpayer expense, USAID has little to show since the end of the Cold War.”
For months, the Trump administration has audited USAID, shrinking its operations and moving it underneath Rubio’s effective control. The Department of Government Efficiency has led the probe into USAID funding, cutting thousands of spending programs worth tens of billions of taxpayer dollars.
What spending is left will be reallocated and closely watched for measurable returns toward the United States’ national interest, according to Rubio. Of the regions and communities that have received funding from USAID in recent decades, American objectives have “rarely been met.” At the same time, “instability has often worsened, and anti-American sentiment has only grown,” Rubio said.
“[I]n 2023, sub-Saharan African nations voted with the United States only 29 percent of the time on essential resolutions at the UN despite receiving $165 billion in outlays since 1991. That’s the lowest rate in the world,” Rubio wrote. “Over the same period, more than $89 billion invested in the Middle East and North Africa left the U.S. with lower favorability ratings than China in every nation but Morocco.”
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All of these organizations are basically charitable organizations, and there is absolutely nothing preventing you from donating your own money to charities/NGO's you believe are deserving. You can pick and choose among the ones you believe are the most worthwhile, and that will advance the issues you believe are most important.
I am sure the educated leftist elites can easily afford to make up for any lost USAID funds out of their own pocket.
A “Non-Governmental Organization” that requires government funding is NOT “non-governmental.”
Just a money laundering scheme to funnel taxpayer money to leftist causes while the organizers skim a bunch off the top for themselves. Every congresscritter in Washington has a wife or kid who’s the head of a NGO making $500K a year that’s being funded by USAID.
FTA-———Under the State Department, international aid will be directed toward “prioritizing trade over aid, opportunity over dependency, and investment over assistance,” said Rubio.
“USAID viewed its constituency as the United Nations, multinational NGOs, and the broader global community — not the U.S. taxpayers who funded its budget or the President they elected to represent their interests on the world stage,” he wrote.
“That ends today, and where there was once a rainbow of unidentifiable logos on life-saving aid, there will now be one recognizable symbol: the American flag. Recipients deserve to know the assistance provided to them is not a handout from an unknown NGO, but an investment from the American people,” he added.
The George Bush and obama tax free foundations are sad.
No more taxpayer money laundered thru their “charities”.
According to Elon Musk DOGE there are about 1.5 million NGO’s in this country.
Excellent! Now prosecute the fraudsters who lined their own pockets as well as those who used US taxpayer money as nothing more than a slush fund for leftist politics.
$700 Billion since 1961???? I’ll BET it’s WAYS MORE!!
“ Every congresscritter in Washington has a wife or kid who’s the head of a NGO making $500K a year that’s being funded by USAID.”
Perhaps AI can do a quick search and produce a list of all of the family members of Washington elitists who are “employed” by an NGO.
Kettering.org is one that needs investigated.
The Kettering Foundation is a den of snakes.
Rubio 2028
Agree 100%. I just think it is funny that an obvious solution of them contributing individually to charitable organization that solves their (alleged) concerns.
But I actually think their concern is less financial than an insistence on other people being compelled to agree with and support a certain agenda.
Agree 100%. I just think it is funny that an obvious solution of them contributing individually to charitable organization that solves their (alleged) concerns.
But I actually think their concern is less financial than an insistence that governments (and other people) should prioritize global over national interests.
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