Posted on 08/04/2025 10:33:26 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The Trump administration wants to defund the unconstitutional, left-wing, foreign-meddling National Endowment for Democracy (NED). So what did House Republicans just do? They voted to give the agency $315 million.
According to the Daily Caller:
In May, the Trump administration’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) recommended eliminating federal funding for the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), citing the organization’s pattern of partisan advocacy and hostility towards Republicans. However, the House Appropriations Subcommittee on National Security, Department of State and Related Programs advanced a bill on July 23 that would allocate $315 million to the organization for the upcoming fiscal year.
“It might be a dealbreaker,” a senior administration official told the Daily Caller News Foundation regarding the NED funding included in the bill.
Created in 1983, the NED is a nominally private organization — though almost all its funding comes from American taxpayers — tasked with advancing “democracy” around the world. It is ostensibly nonpartisan and claims it “does not engage in domestic political activity.”
Given that the Left considers anything that impedes the socialist-globalist agenda a threat to democracy, it’s no surprise that the NED has decided that promoting democracy means opposing President Donald Trump and any foreign leaders who obstruct that agenda.
The administration laid out its case against the NED in May:
Under the Biden Administration and at the start of the Russia/Ukraine war, the NED blocked public access to its grant details after having never provided disclosure in the manner required by Federal law. In March 2025, it was discovered that NED funded the Ukraine disinformation organization that doxed U.S. journalists[,] called for prosecutions of allies of the President, and attacked the Vice President, [National Counterterrorism Center...
(Excerpt) Read more at thenewamerican.com ...
Yea, let’s keep pissing away money on democraps and their illegal work arounds to piss away away taxpayer money.
A democracy is a political system in which the people periodically, by majority vote at the polls, select their rulers. The rulers then have absolute power to make whatever laws they please, by majority vote among themselves.Never will you see any endowment for US-style republicanism.
In a constitutional Republic, the people also, by majority vote at the polls, select rulers, who make laws by majority vote among themselves; but the rulers cannot make any laws they please because the Constitution severely restricts their lawmaking power.
The ideal of a democracy is universal equality. The ideal of a constitutional Republic is individual liberty.
In this century, great strides have been made toward the goal of subverting our Republic and transforming it into a democracy. One tactic of the subverters is subversion of language. By calling the United States a democracy until people thoughtlessly accept and use the term, totalitarians have obscured the real meaning of our principles of government.
— Dan Smoot Report, 1966
It won’t work as long as grifters remain in power.
They will remain in power until taken out.
They seem to be able to convince idiots and those with their hands out to vote for them.
Here are the “Republican” members of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on National Security, Department of State and Related Programs:
Mario Diaz-Balart – Chair
Guy Reschenthaler
Julia Letlow
Juan Ciscomani
Chuck Edwards – Vice Chair
John Moolenaar
Mark Alford
Can’t Trump just veto it?
Elise Stefanik was part of it.
It is a CIA slush fund for covert operations
Rebuilding the lost grift/embezzlement money laundromats they lost with USAID, GRANTS
and NGO defunding.
STOP THEM !
MAKE THE LEFT USE THEIR OWN DAMN MONEY
NOT TAXPAYERS MONEY.
I certainly hope so.
They will probably try to tie it to something we want...
but a good smack down veto for whatever it is might get their attention.
GOPe ...snatching defeat from the jaws of victory..
Dan Smoot was a friend of my parents in the 1960’s, and attended many JBS functions.
Since the Declaration of Independence is the formative document of our nation, we should probably look to it for guidance:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Smoot was mistaken about many things, but he was an entertaining house guest.
The CIA strikes back.
Tulsi needs to pull on their choke chain—hard.
Its a CeyeA front, just like USAID
Looks like USAID was only one spigot feeding the trough.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHahahahahahahahahahaha!!!
Ripe for capture by leftists.
The “National Endowment for Democracy” allows just the Democrats and the GOP party apparatuses to run what is in effect their own foreign policy operations. It should not be funded.
I doubt Smoot got the definition of democracy versus republic wrong, here. That’s exactly how the Democrats and RINOs treat “our democracy”.
And whenever I show this definition to the left, they always get upset, so it hits close to their bones as it were, i.e. it rings perfectly true.
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