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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PLEASE...go after those who were corrupt. Like jail. or torture in a Extraordinary Rendition facility
USAID, the US Agency for International Development, has spent a total of at least $700 billion since its inception in 1961. This figure is based on annual disbursements of about $23 billion on average from 2001 to 2024, combined with historical spending figures from earlier years.
BUMP!
EXCELLENT!
90% of “nonprofits” and NGOs are nothing but termites feeding off the foundation of the country - getting fat off of it while destroying the country they feed off of.
I’m sure most other agencies also feed a bunch of NGOs so get rid of those as well.
Empty their bank accounts.
In 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.Except, those countries only received 29% of the $165 billion in outlays. The rest went to NGOs and DNC operatives, most of whom live in McLean, Virginia and Potomac, Maryland.
I am sure they all get money thru multiple govt channels.
Keep digging!
The administrative costs for these NGOs were exorbitant. Very little benefits went to the little people in need
Now that USAID is gone who will pay for the commies to show up and “protest”
That washed up Singer dude from Ireland, Bozo, best stay home in that burgeoning $hit hole of a country, they have his back.
Yes! Everyone should look up 990 forms of the 501c3s in their locale. What a scam.
And the world is a better place. Less stolen taxpayer dollars.
Awwwwwww… worldwide NGO little piggies have been cut off from the USAID trough??? GOOD!!!
US AID shuts down ... DNC experiences funding shortfall.
What are you suggesting!? 🤡
I’m sorry to have to tell you all this, but do you know who started all this NGO/Faith Based Institutions getting access to almost unlimited government fund? At the time, I thought it was a great idea, boy was I wrong.’
It was our very own, Ronaldus Maximus.
Rubio is doing a kick-ass job.
The way things are going with (most of) Trump’s Cabinet picks, we’ll have an embarrassment of riches when it comes to POTUS tickets in 2028.
These are nothing but laundromats. They make the old mafia jealous.
That was during the Cold War, when everything was zero-sum. Anything that might win some favor among the nonaligned nations was a win for the West. Not unusual for a good idea to go sour as time went on..
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