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Former GOP Congresswoman Liz Cheney faced backlash from conservatives on social media after defending her work with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). The exchange drew the attention of DOGE leader Elon Musk, who escalated critiques of Cheney’s past role at USAID. Cheney’s held positions within embassies in Poland, Hungary, Russia, and Ukraine. The controversy intensified as Musk’s comments coincided with calls from former President Donald Trump to close USAID, citing concerns of corruption. Responding to the criticism, Cheney wrote, “[Expletive] right, @Elon. I’m proud of what America did to win the Cold War, defeat Soviet communism, and defend...

Samaritan’s Purse has confirmed that $19 million in frozen USAID funds has been released to the ministry. Payments to the North Carolina-based evangelical aid organization had been stalled since January, when President Trump ordered a 90-day pause on all federal foreign aid. News of the release follows the Supreme Court’s March 5 ruling that the Trump administration must unfreeze nearly $2 billion for foreign humanitarian work already completed at the government’s behest. “The funding grants that Samaritan’s Purse has with USAID are reimbursement agreements,” said Samaritan’s Purse President and CEO Franklin Graham in a statement to MinistryWatch. “We pay for...

A federal judge, in a ruling aimed at restoring the core functions of the defunct United States Agency for International Development (USAID), appeared either to not know or, indeed, falsify how the agency was created. The bizarre error will now call into question the validity of his ruling Tuesday, which even seeks to reopen building access for dismissed USAID employees. U.S. District Court Judge Theodore D. Chuang, who serves on the Federal District Court of Maryland bench and was appointed by former President Barack Obama, claims that Congress created USAID and, therefore, it cannot be shut down solely through presidential...

Elon Musk's attempt to unilaterally dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development likely violated the United States Constitution, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang ordered Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency to immediately give USAID employees access to their "email, payment, security notification, and all other electronic systems," and ordered a pause on any efforts to shut down USAID

Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson 🚨BREAKING: Federal judge orders Elon Musk and DOGE to reinstate USAID. 2:11 PM · Mar 18, 2025

For Democrats, social justice is big business. Witness Southwest Key Programs: As part of the migrant money machine, it pulled in around a brain-busting $3 billion in taxpayer funds between fiscal 2021 and 2024. The group is the largest housing provider for unaccompanied migrant kids — and clearly rotten to the core. The Biden Justice Department sued it in July, over accusations of “severe” and “pervasive” rape and abuse of the kids in the group’s care between 2015 and 2023 — and a congressional probe found evidence suggesting SKP even turned kids over to traffickers. But that didn’t stop the...

CV NEWS FEED // President Donald Trump’s administration recently defunded the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the group responsible for ushering in China’s notorious “one-child policy” in the 1970s. CatholicVote Director of Government Affairs Tom McClusky supported legislation defunding UNFPA. He celebrated the change, which came on Feb. 26. “UNFPA was the largest benefactor of the grift occurring at USAID, with hundreds of millions going to bolster groups promoting abortion in countries that did not want it,” McClusky stated March 14. “America needs to stop being a country that promotes the death of children overseas, to do that we need...

[H/T aMorePerfectUnion]Alessandro Palombo@0x_ale Mike Benz just revealed everything.On JRE, he exposed:- Why USAID is a tool for control, not aid- How “democracy” was redefined to silence you- The chilling truth behind Pentagon-backed censorshipI've never seen Joe Rogan so quiet...Here are 8 must-see highlights: Alessandro Palombo @0x_aleDec 91. The Ukraine CoupBenz explained how the 2014 Ukraine coup wasn’t just a geopolitical event, it was a testing ground.The CIA used tools to combat media influence in the region, but…Post-2016, these tools weren’t just used for foreign regimes...ransomnote: Link to 3 minute x.com Part 1 video segment: https://x.com/0x_ale/status/1866210734730002685?s=46 Alessandro Palombo @0x_aleDec 92. “Democracy”...

Two labs at Kansas State University that work on global food security are scheduled to shut down in less than a month because the Trump administration has cut off funding. K-State will shed about 10 jobs. Abroad, hundreds of low-income students that were recruited to advance sustainable agriculture in their countries will lose funding to go to college. The two Feed the Future Innovation Labs will close on April 12, K-State announced in a news release. The closures are related to the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID. The lab was paying for about 275 students...

When Kajol contracted tuberculosis in January, USAID kept her alive. Now she and her family are in danger again after the Trump administration ordered most US aid spending to end. "You ask people on the street, they will say yeah, it's the US, they are the ones that are keeping it [tuberculosis] in control," said a director of a USAID project in Bangladesh. "Bangladesh was USAID's largest programme in Asia," says Asif Saleh, executive director of the non-profit BRAC organisation. "In terms of its impact, particularly in the healthcare sector, it has been massive. In 2024, Bangladesh received $500m in...

Who knew that Johns Hopkins University had a head count so bloated that it could easily cut 2000 staff members? Honestly, I could have guessed that without looking up the student enrollment. It is a university of some size, and therefore has an uncounted number of useless or worse employees whom they can afford to keep on board because the federal government keeps pouring ungodly amounts of money into Higher Ed, even though the return for both the country and for the students is getting worse and worse. Johns Hopkins University announces it will fire nearly 2,000 workers over cut...

A federal judge refused Friday to block the destruction of classified documents as part of the building cleanout at the U.S. Agency for International Development, finding that records slated for shredding or burning are old or no longer needed. The documents don’t appear to be related to the ongoing court battles over the near-dismantling of USAID by the Trump administration, U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols found as he refused to grant a temporary restraining order. The cases come as the Trump administration dismantles USAID, cutting off most federal money and terminating 83% of the programs abroad. All but a few...

As the money flows, the Supreme Court’s failure to act enables unchecked judicial activism. The Supreme Court’s recent refusal to vacate the lower court’s order in the USAID case has sharply divided legal observers—especially conservatives. Some initially dismissed it as a mere procedural hiccup, a fleeting technical matter that would quietly resolve itself. They were wrong then. They are even more wrong now. Judge Amir Ali’s latest ruling makes that painfully clear. As someone who has served as a judicial officer on appellate review, I know how these battles unfold behind closed doors. I’ve seen colleagues wobbly in their convictions....

MEKELE, Ethiopia (AP) — As a displaced person in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, 76-year-old Haile Tsege is no stranger to hunger. During its war with Tigray fighters that devastated the region in 2020-2022, Ethiopian government restrictions on the rebellious region reduced aid flows to a trickle. Then in 2023, U.S. and U.N. aid distributions of grain were halted for months over a corruption scandal. Now the Trump administration’s dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, has again halted food deliveries to a sprawling camp of over 20,000 people outside Tigray’s regional capital, Mekele. “We will just die...

Documents are disappearing. Classified records are being burned. USAID, once a tool of American foreign influence, is being shut down, and the last thing its leadership seems worried about is transparency. A senior official reportedly ordered employees to shred and destroy key records, an act that critics warn could erase crucial evidence of the agency’s past operations. If this is just routine housekeeping, why the rush? Emails leaked from inside USAID allegedly show an all-day effort to eliminate classified files, with employees stuffing burn bags when shredders weren’t available. Some claim this is standard protocol during a shutdown. Others see...

Hunter Biden is trying to dodge a deposition in a lawsuit involving his infamous laptop because he wants to decamp to South Africa for three months — and he’s using the LA wildfire as “an excuse,” new court papers allege. Former Trump White House aide Garrett Ziegler — whom Hunter claimed illegally hacked his laptop and spread its embarrassing contents — is fighting the Biden scion’s request to drop a lawsuit against him. Biden said in a filing last week that he cannot pursue the suit because he is broke due to his art no longer selling and the wildfire...

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) released a video on social media Tuesday on why he voted no on the Trump-backed Continuing Resolution passed by the House. Massie recorded the response prior to the vote and released the clip immediately after the bill’s passage. He revealed that Mike Johnson, who is no stranger to cutting deals with Democrats as he constantly did with Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries since he first became Speaker of the House, has cut another deal “with the Senate Democrats, Senate leadership, and even Hakeem Jeffries.” .... Snip.... Massie revealed that Democrats in the Senate will be voting...

Vaughn Hillyard, NBC News Correspondent joins Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House with reaction to the breaking news that the Department of Education has mandated all employees out of headquarters by 6pm today, citing security concerns. Along with news that USAID is now instructing staff to shred or burn all classified documents.

stunning email issued by a USAID official today will generate a national uproar and provoke another massive legal battle. Politico obtained an email from a senior official at USAID ordering the remaining staff to convene at the agency’s former headquarters on Tuesday to destroy all remaining documents by either shredding or burning them. USAID’s acting executive secretary Erica Carr told the staff to meet at the RRB 14th Street Lobby to “shred as many documents first, and reserve the burn bags for when the shredder becomes unavailable or needs a break.” Carr also ordered staff to label the burn bags...

On Monday, Social media giant X came under a massive cyber attack. Elon Musk later announced the cyber attack was linked to IP addresses originating in Ukraine. The cyber attack took down X for several hours. The Ukrainian government is very upset with President Trump and his historic team of experts who surround him for not supporting endless war with Russia. Elon Musk is leading President Trump’s efforts to downsize government and cut costs. This upsets Democrats and pro-war factions. On Monday The Grayzone reported that the propaganda against Musk and other pro-peace individuals was pushed by a radical fake...