oreign media outlets have revealed how much the Starship Troopers in Ukraine cost American taxpayers after the start of the war. As it turned out, Hollywood stars visited Zelensky not at the call of their hearts, but for hard money.. $38.5 Million
The now-disgraced USAID (the American Agency for International Development) paid for the celebrity's visit to Ukraine after the start of the special operation. The E! PortalNews has published the details.
Angelina Jolie cost the most - $ 20 million. By the way, that's how much she was paid for the film "Salt" (16+) in 2010, it was her maximum fee, according to open sources.
In second place is the star of "Pirates of the Caribbean" (12+) and "Lord of the Rings" (12+) Orlando Bloom. He earned $8 million on the trip. Sean Penn, who presented his Oscar to Zelensky, received $ 5 million, Ben Stiller - $ 4 million. Jean-Claude Van Damme was the cheapest - only 1.5 million dollars.
Earlier, the new White House administration eliminated the USAID agency without the possibility of restoration.
The day before, the Russian Foreign Ministry reported on some other expenses of this agency, including rations for terrorists, a transgender opera in Colombia, sex reassignment surgery in Guatemala and other popularization of perversions around the world.
In Treasury's basement, fluorescent lights hummed above four young coders. Their screens cast blue light across government-issue desks, illuminating energy drink cans and agency badges. As their algorithms crawled through decades of payment data, one number kept growing: $17 billion in redundant programs. And counting.
"We're in," Akash Bobba messaged the team. "All of it."
Edward Coristine's code had already mapped three subsystems. Luke Farritor's algorithms were tracing payment flows across agencies. Ethan Shaotran's analysis revealed patterns that career officials didn't even know existed. By dawn, they would understand more about Treasury's operations than people who had worked there for decades.
This wasn't a hack. This wasn't a breach. This was authorized disruption.
EMM budget figures for 2024 are not available yet, but in 2023 it earned $53 million from various taxpayer-funded government programs to resettle 3,600 individuals.
Qatar has given or contracted nearly $6 billion to American universities since 2007, according to a February 2024 report. The money is said to have “enabled Qatar to have outsized influence in American politics and academia, efforts [that] have mainstreamed anti-Israel propaganda and silenced criticism about Doha’s longstanding ties to Hamas, the Iranian regime, and other terror groups.”
“The Biden administration was intent on hiding the truth about how the Qatari government funds and manipulates American universities,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “The Trump Education Department should expose the details of this foreign influence operation as soon as possible.”
Judicial Watch and the Zachor – with the assistance of Jennifer S. Riggs of Riggs & Ray, P.C. in Austin, Texas – previously spent more than five years successfully fighting the Qatar Foundation in Texas courts for information about the funding of Texas A&M. The records that were produced showed that over $522 million was given by Qatar to the state university from January 1, 2013, to May 22, 2018, including more than $485 million from the Qatar Foundation. In addition, because of Judicial Watch’s court victory, Texas A&M produced contracts that suggest Texas A&M provided an assignment of sensitive intellectual property to the Qatar Foundation.
U.S. government agencies have dropped a staggering $34 million in contracts with Virginia-based news outlet Politico, mostly on subscriptions, according to data from USASpending.gov.
The payments vary in size and scope and come from virtually every government agency. The Department of the Interior‘s (DOI) National Park Service awarded a contract worth $862,025 over a period between 2021 and 2025 for subscriptions to Politico’s Energy and Environment (E&E) News service.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services, another DOI subsidiary, also made a purchase order of $455,140 to Politico for an “online news subscription” over a similar timeframe.
The government also spends a significant amount of money on subscriptions to other news agencies — The HHS alone paid New York Times, for example, over $26 million, again mostly for subscriptions. The Associated Press (AP), $619,968 too, can count multiple government agencies as loyal subscribers.
NO $ AMOUNT MENTIONED. Full List of Celebrities Who Have Visited Ukraine Since War Began
“CMS has two senior Agency veterans – one focused on policy and one focused on operations – who are leading the collaboration with DOGE, including ensuring appropriate access to CMS systems and technology,” the agency said in a statement. “We are taking a thoughtful approach to see where there may be opportunities for more effective and efficient use of resources in line with meeting the goals of President Trump.”
The CMS is essentially the federal government’s insurance provider. The agency sets payment rates for doctors, hospitals and insurers, while also overseeing Medicare, Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program and the Affordable Care Act — programs that provide coverage for more than 150 million people.
The CMS spent more than $1.5 trillion in 2024, around 22 percent of federal spending. Lawmakers often say the massive amount of spending on health care programs is rife with fraud and abuse, though bipartisan efforts to curb Medicare spending over the years have been met with political backlash.
Medicare/Tricare now charges for routine vein puncture blood draws for those every 6 months blood work often not needed. Thyroid and Diabetic are. Last script could have been bought OTC for the cost of the Copay, not even the right stuff for a Woman-Monistat is ladies, can be bought OTC if you want a Failue 1%. Generic Lotrimin Male Jock itch. Still would not have solved the issue. There is NO PRODUCT for Senior Females who aged out of HRT. LACK OF DR. KNOWLEDGE. I informed Her HRT IS A REACTION NIGHTMARE FOR ME. I made Walgreens cancel it. Coconut oil solved 1 part of issue. Not the Main part. The referal to Gastro elicited NO response.
2023 FLASHBACK. NO WONDER THERE WAS NO MONEY IN FEMA.
USAID providing disaster relief after devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria
USAID announced it is allocating $85 million for disaster relief efforts in Turkey and Syria. CBS News anchors Lana Zak and Errol Barnett spoke with USAID deputy director Isobel Coleman about how the money will be used.
The Whole Hog Award to Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) for 231 earmarks costing $575,580,000, the highest amount received, and 23.4 percent more than the legislator in second
The House of Pork Award to Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (R-Tenn.) who received 13 earmarks costing $270,330,940, the most in the House of Representatives.
The You Cannot be Serious Award to Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) for $1,750,000 for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, which held net assets of $5 billion in 2023.
The Taking Taxpayers for a Ride Award to the 28 members of Congress who received 24 earmarks costing $29,742,337 to fund bike and pedestrian paths.
The Broadband Bandits Award to the 14 members of Congress who received 10 earmarks costing $11,385,000 to fund broadband projects despite the availability of enough money to connect every unserved area of the country.
The Singing a Sour Note for Taxpayers Award to Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Collins for a combined $739,000 for opera houses, including $500,000 by Sen. Sanders for the Vergennes Opera House in Vermont and $239,000 by Sen. Collins for the Bangor Opera House in Maine.
The Closing the Curtain on Taxpayers Award to the 17 members of Congress who received 15 earmarks costing $8,153,000 for local theaters.
The Crabby Pork Award to Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) for $4,000,000 for the Alaska King Crab Enhancement Project.
The We’re Going to Need a Bigger Boat Award to Rep. Greg Steube (R-Fla.) for $190,000 for a shark repellant study at the Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota, Florida, which had an operating budget of $35,739,237 in 2023.
The Presidential Library Industrial Complex Award to Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kansas) for $17,500,000 for improvements at the Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum in Abilene, Kansas.
The Fiscal Unfitness Award to Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) for $500,000 for restoration of a historic gymnasium in Madison, Mississippi.
Biden cleared the path for U.S. funding to flow toward pro-abortion groups across the globe just days after entering office. He signed an executive order rescinding the Reagan-era "Mexico City Rule" on Jan. 28, 2021.
Smith's accusations centered on PREPFAR, a funding program within USAID that, at the time, had already allocated some $100 billion toward fighting AIDS across the world, saving 25 million lives and preventing millions of infections.
Smith says two groups, Population Services International (PSI) and Village Reach, had received $96.5 million and $10.1 million, respectively, from PEPFAR under Biden, and both groups have a track record of pushing abortion.
"PSI proudly proclaims it provides abortion and lobbies to eliminate pro-life laws," Smith said at the time. "PSI provides comprehensive abortion and post-abortion care services in nearly 20 countries throughout the world."
On Monday, the White House published a list of USAID projects which it said were evidence of "waste and abuse", including a grant of $1.5m to an LGBTQ group in Serbia, $2.5m for electric vehicles in Vietnam and $6m for tourism in Egypt - although the press release for that project, issued in 2019 during the first Trump administration, lists aid projects including water, education and transportation for the North Sinai region.
USAID’s ‘long list of crap’: Karoline Leavitt cites millions in wasteful spending
$2 million for sex changes and "LGBT activism" in Guatemala.
$6 million to fund tourism in Egypt.
Spent
$20 million on “Ahlan Simsim” — a new Sesame Street show in Iraq'
Over $4.5 millionnto “combat disinformation” in Kazakhstan.
Up to $10 million worth of USAID-funded meals went to al Qaeda-linked terrorist group the Nusra Front.
$500,000 to group that “empowers women” in an attempt to solve sectarian violence in Israel just 10 days before Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks. Awarded nearly $25 million to Deloitte to promote green transportation in Georgia (the country).
$4.67 million to EcoHealth Alliance, one of the key nongovernmental organizations funding bat virus research at Wuhan Institute of Virology, in late 2021. Later refused
to answer key questions about the funding.
$20 million for the Strengthening Transparency and Accountability through Investigative Reporting program which used the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project as its implementing partner. The OCCRP was cited four times in the whistleblower letter that led to the Russiagate impeachment. USAID’s
2022-2030 climate strategy outlined a $150 billion “whole-of-Agency approach” to building an "equitable world with net-zero greenhouse gas emissions."
$7.9 million to a project that would teach Sri Lankan journalists to avoid “binary-gendered language.”
$1.1 million to an Armenian LGBT group.
$1.2 million to the African Methodist Episcopal Church Service and Development Agency in Washington, D.C., to build “a state-of-the-art 440-seat auditorium.”
$1.3 million to Arab and Jewish photographers.
$1.5 million to promote LGBT advocacy in Jamaica.
$1.5 million to “rebuild” the Cuban media ecosystem.
$1.5 million for “art for inclusion of people with disabilities.”
$2 million to promote “LGBT equality through entrepreneurship … in developing Latin American countries.
$2.1 million so the BBC can strengthen the media ecosystem in Libya, “designed to value the diversity of Libyan society.”
$2.3 million for “artisanal and small-scale gold mining” in the Amazon.
$2.5 million to promote “inclusion” in Vietnam.
$3.9 million to LGBT causes in the Western Balkans.
$5.5 million
to LGBT in Uganda.
$6 million
to advance LGBT in “priority countries around the world."
$6 million to “Transform Digital Spaces to Reflect Feminist Democratic Principles.”
$6.3 million to men who have sex with men in South Africa.
$8.3 million for “USAID Education: Equity and Inclusion.”
Another $16.8 million to a separate group in Vietnam for “inclusion.”
“The Biden State Department strayed from its core mission in favor of promoting partisan social agendas. It spent $77 million on DEI programs in 2023 alone. It spent $500,000 to promote atheism in Nepal, $45 million on DEI scholarships in Burma, $3 million training environmental activists in Brazil, and $20 million to give Sesame Street to Iraqis. Plus, it spent $47,000 for transgender comic books in Peru, $20,000 for drag shows in Ecuador, and $50,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia. As Secretary Rubio said, foreign aid should promote America’s national interests, not the interests of far-left activists. Senator Ricketts supports his efforts to make sure every dollar we spend makes America safer, stronger, or more prosperous.”
USAID funded the visit of Hollywood stars to Ukraine: Jolie cost the most, Van Damme cost the cheapest
USAID funded the visit of Hollywood stars to Ukraine: Jolie cost the most, Van Damme cost the cheapest
https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/02/05/1029137.html
oreign media outlets have revealed how much the Starship Troopers in Ukraine cost American taxpayers after the start of the war. As it turned out, Hollywood stars visited Zelensky not at the call of their hearts, but for hard money.. $38.5 Million
The now-disgraced USAID (the American Agency for International Development) paid for the celebrity's visit to Ukraine after the start of the special operation. The E! PortalNews has published the details.
Angelina Jolie cost the most - $ 20 million. By the way, that's how much she was paid for the film "Salt" (16+) in 2010, it was her maximum fee, according to open sources.
In second place is the star of "Pirates of the Caribbean" (12+) and "Lord of the Rings" (12+) Orlando Bloom. He earned $8 million on the trip. Sean Penn, who presented his Oscar to Zelensky, received $ 5 million, Ben Stiller - $ 4 million. Jean-Claude Van Damme was the cheapest - only 1.5 million dollars.
Earlier, the new White House administration eliminated the USAID agency without the possibility of restoration.
The day before, the Russian Foreign Ministry reported on some other expenses of this agency, including rations for terrorists, a transgender opera in Colombia, sex reassignment surgery in Guatemala and other popularization of perversions around the world.
Source: https://tsargrad.tv
How many more were paid?
Before it was shuttered, USAID routed funds to Soros-aligned causes, terrorists and drag queens
https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/it-was-shuttered-usaid-routed-funds-soros-causes-terrorists-and
READ THE REST
OVERRIDE
INSIDE THE REVOLUTION REWIRING AMERICAN POWER
https://eko.substack.com/p/override
In Treasury's basement, fluorescent lights hummed above four young coders. Their screens cast blue light across government-issue desks, illuminating energy drink cans and agency badges. As their algorithms crawled through decades of payment data, one number kept growing: $17 billion in redundant programs. And counting.
"We're in," Akash Bobba messaged the team. "All of it."
Edward Coristine's code had already mapped three subsystems. Luke Farritor's algorithms were tracing payment flows across agencies. Ethan Shaotran's analysis revealed patterns that career officials didn't even know existed. By dawn, they would understand more about Treasury's operations than people who had worked there for decades.
This wasn't a hack. This wasn't a breach. This was authorized disruption.
6 DOGE KIDS ARE NOW ADULTS. https://scontent.fjbr1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/476803993_9491513877535744_668806928342446996_n.jpg?_nc_cat=111&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=127cfc&_nc_ohc=bUQJd-nbSjcQ7kNvgFcXCPq&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent.fjbr1-1.fna&_nc_gid=Atu6XOeCOkOGdoZnQs-KC-O&oh=00_AYCwKFaUXCGmS-07VPM1IiFhh3Rmm6Q6CbqrYdliHk--jg&oe=67AD4E29
Episcopal bishop lectures Trump while earning taxpayer millions to bring migrants into US
https://nypost.com/2025/01/31/opinion/episcopal-bishop-lectures-trump-while-earning-taxpayer-millions-to-bring-migrants-into-us/
EMM budget figures for 2024 are not available yet, but in 2023 it earned $53 million from various taxpayer-funded government programs to resettle 3,600 individuals.
Judicial Watch Sues Dept. of Education for Records on Funding of U.S. Universities’ Operations in Qatar
https://www.judicialwatch.org/universities-operations-in-qatar/
Qatar has given or contracted nearly $6 billion to American universities since 2007, according to a February 2024 report. The money is said to have “enabled Qatar to have outsized influence in American politics and academia, efforts [that] have mainstreamed anti-Israel propaganda and silenced criticism about Doha’s longstanding ties to Hamas, the Iranian regime, and other terror groups.”
“The Biden administration was intent on hiding the truth about how the Qatari government funds and manipulates American universities,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “The Trump Education Department should expose the details of this foreign influence operation as soon as possible.”
Judicial Watch and the Zachor – with the assistance of Jennifer S. Riggs of Riggs & Ray, P.C. in Austin, Texas – previously spent more than five years successfully fighting the Qatar Foundation in Texas courts for information about the funding of Texas A&M. The records that were produced showed that over $522 million was given by Qatar to the state university from January 1, 2013, to May 22, 2018, including more than $485 million from the Qatar Foundation. In addition, because of Judicial Watch’s court victory, Texas A&M produced contracts that suggest Texas A&M provided an assignment of sensitive intellectual property to the Qatar Foundation.
US Government Dropped Millions On DC’s Favorite Media Outlet — Here’s What They Spent It On
https://dailycaller.com/2025/02/05/usaid-dropped-millions-dc-politico-new-york-times-ap/
U.S. government agencies have dropped a staggering $34 million in contracts with Virginia-based news outlet Politico, mostly on subscriptions, according to data from USASpending.gov.
The payments vary in size and scope and come from virtually every government agency. The Department of the Interior‘s (DOI) National Park Service awarded a contract worth $862,025 over a period between 2021 and 2025 for subscriptions to Politico’s Energy and Environment (E&E) News service.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services, another DOI subsidiary, also made a purchase order of $455,140 to Politico for an “online news subscription” over a similar timeframe.
The government also spends a significant amount of money on subscriptions to other news agencies — The HHS alone paid New York Times, for example, over $26 million, again mostly for subscriptions. The Associated Press (AP), $619,968 too, can count multiple government agencies as loyal subscribers.
NO $ AMOUNT MENTIONED. Full List of Celebrities Who Have Visited Ukraine Since War Began
https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-celebrities-visited-ukraine-since-russia-war-began-1790876
USAID pumped $85 MILLION into Chelsea Clinton foundation
https://news-pravda.com/usa/2025/02/06/1030586.html
Remember these heartfelt pleas to boost the Clinton Foundation coffers? Seems USAID itself allegedly wasn’t immune, to the tune of $85 million
The wheels keep on turning #US #USAID #Clintons
DOGE officials home in on Medicare, Medicaid offices
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5129158-elon-musk-cms-access/
“CMS has two senior Agency veterans – one focused on policy and one focused on operations – who are leading the collaboration with DOGE, including ensuring appropriate access to CMS systems and technology,” the agency said in a statement. “We are taking a thoughtful approach to see where there may be opportunities for more effective and efficient use of resources in line with meeting the goals of President Trump.”
The CMS is essentially the federal government’s insurance provider. The agency sets payment rates for doctors, hospitals and insurers, while also overseeing Medicare, Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program and the Affordable Care Act — programs that provide coverage for more than 150 million people.
The CMS spent more than $1.5 trillion in 2024, around 22 percent of federal spending. Lawmakers often say the massive amount of spending on health care programs is rife with fraud and abuse, though bipartisan efforts to curb Medicare spending over the years have been met with political backlash.
Medicare/Tricare now charges for routine vein puncture blood draws for those every 6 months blood work often not needed. Thyroid and Diabetic are. Last script could have been bought OTC for the cost of the Copay, not even the right stuff for a Woman-Monistat is ladies, can be bought OTC if you want a Failue 1%. Generic Lotrimin Male Jock itch. Still would not have solved the issue. There is NO PRODUCT for Senior Females who aged out of HRT. LACK OF DR. KNOWLEDGE. I informed Her HRT IS A REACTION NIGHTMARE FOR ME. I made Walgreens cancel it. Coconut oil solved 1 part of issue. Not the Main part. The referal to Gastro elicited NO response.
2023 FLASHBACK. NO WONDER THERE WAS NO MONEY IN FEMA.
USAID providing disaster relief after devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria
USAID announced it is allocating $85 million for disaster relief efforts in Turkey and Syria. CBS News anchors Lana Zak and Errol Barnett spoke with USAID deputy director Isobel Coleman about how the money will be used.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/earthquake-turkey-syria-usaid-allocates-additional-85-million-disaster-relief/
Secretary of Energy Chris Wright says lack of real facts regarding climate change driving massively destructive movement
https://www.wnd.com/.../secretary-of-energy-chris.../...
X-BREAKING: America’s new Secretary of Energy just exposed the entire climate scam
“Media & politicians NEVER bothered to actually learn about climate change.”
$2 TRILLION to lower fossil fuel use by 2%
They’re not saving the planet—they’re robbing YOU
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Sen. John Kennedy (LA) https://x.com/douglasritz/status/1887271021566435509?t=7H8AKF5IrilMudTKn9BmeA&s=09
2 Trillion to save 2%.
Secretary of Energy Chris Wright says lack of real facts regarding climate change driving massively destructive movement
https://www.wnd.com/2025/02/secretary-of-energy-chris-wright-says-lack-of-real-facts-regarding-climate-change-driving-massively-destructive-movement/?ref=redicate.com
X-BREAKING: America’s new Secretary of Energy just exposed the entire climate scam
“Media & politicians NEVER bothered to actually learn about climate change.”
$2 TRILLION to lower fossil fuel use by 2%
They’re not saving the planet—they’re robbing YOU
2024 Congressional Pig Book, SUMMARY
https://www.cagw.org/reporting/pig-book
PORKER AWARDS
The Whole Hog Award to Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) for 231 earmarks costing $575,580,000, the highest amount received, and 23.4 percent more than the legislator in second
The House of Pork Award to Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (R-Tenn.) who received 13 earmarks costing $270,330,940, the most in the House of Representatives.
The You Cannot be Serious Award to Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) for $1,750,000 for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, which held net assets of $5 billion in 2023.
The Taking Taxpayers for a Ride Award to the 28 members of Congress who received 24 earmarks costing $29,742,337 to fund bike and pedestrian paths.
The Broadband Bandits Award to the 14 members of Congress who received 10 earmarks costing $11,385,000 to fund broadband projects despite the availability of enough money to connect every unserved area of the country.
The Singing a Sour Note for Taxpayers Award to Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Collins for a combined $739,000 for opera houses, including $500,000 by Sen. Sanders for the Vergennes Opera House in Vermont and $239,000 by Sen. Collins for the Bangor Opera House in Maine.
The Closing the Curtain on Taxpayers Award to the 17 members of Congress who received 15 earmarks costing $8,153,000 for local theaters.
The Crabby Pork Award to Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) for $4,000,000 for the Alaska King Crab Enhancement Project.
The We’re Going to Need a Bigger Boat Award to Rep. Greg Steube (R-Fla.) for $190,000 for a shark repellant study at the Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota, Florida, which had an operating budget of $35,739,237 in 2023.
The Presidential Library Industrial Complex Award to Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kansas) for $17,500,000 for improvements at the Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum in Abilene, Kansas.
The Fiscal Unfitness Award to Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) for $500,000 for restoration of a historic gymnasium in Madison, Mississippi.
Flashback: Biden admin repeatedly used USAID to push abortion in Africa
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/flashback-biden-admin-repeatedly-used-usaid-push-abortion-africa
Biden cleared the path for U.S. funding to flow toward pro-abortion groups across the globe just days after entering office. He signed an executive order rescinding the Reagan-era "Mexico City Rule" on Jan. 28, 2021.
Smith's accusations centered on PREPFAR, a funding program within USAID that, at the time, had already allocated some $100 billion toward fighting AIDS across the world, saving 25 million lives and preventing millions of infections.
Smith says two groups, Population Services International (PSI) and Village Reach, had received $96.5 million and $10.1 million, respectively, from PEPFAR under Biden, and both groups have a track record of pushing abortion.
"PSI proudly proclaims it provides abortion and lobbies to eliminate pro-life laws," Smith said at the time. "PSI provides comprehensive abortion and post-abortion care services in nearly 20 countries throughout the world."
'Sesame Street in Iraq': USAID's 'wasteful and dangerous' spending exposed by senator
'USAID is one of the worst offenders of waste in Washington,' Sen. Joni Ernst says
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sesame-street-iraq-usaids-wasteful-dangerous-spending-exposed-senator
Ernst highlighted that the agency "authorized a whopping $20 million to create a Sesame Street in Iraq."
What is USAID and why is Trump reportedly poised to close it?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyezjwnx5ko
On Monday, the White House published a list of USAID projects which it said were evidence of "waste and abuse", including a grant of $1.5m to an LGBTQ group in Serbia, $2.5m for electric vehicles in Vietnam and $6m for tourism in Egypt - although the press release for that project, issued in 2019 during the first Trump administration, lists aid projects including water, education and transportation for the North Sinai region.
USAID’s ‘long list of crap’: Karoline Leavitt cites millions in wasteful spending
https://www.msn.com/en-US/news/politics/usaids-long-list-of-crap-karoline-leavitt-cites-millions-in-wasteful-spending/ar-AA1ytULn
Here is the list Leavitt brought to the briefing.
$2 million for sex changes and "LGBT activism" in Guatemala.
$6 million to fund tourism in Egypt.
Spent
$20 million on “Ahlan Simsim” — a new Sesame Street show in Iraq'
Over $4.5 millionnto “combat disinformation” in Kazakhstan.
Up to $10 million worth of USAID-funded meals went to al Qaeda-linked terrorist group the Nusra Front.
$500,000 to group that “empowers women” in an attempt to solve sectarian violence in Israel just 10 days before Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks. Awarded nearly $25 million to Deloitte to promote green transportation in Georgia (the country).
$4.67 million to EcoHealth Alliance, one of the key nongovernmental organizations funding bat virus research at Wuhan Institute of Virology, in late 2021. Later refused
to answer key questions about the funding.
$20 million for the Strengthening Transparency and Accountability through Investigative Reporting program which used the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project as its implementing partner. The OCCRP was cited four times in the whistleblower letter that led to the Russiagate impeachment. USAID’s
2022-2030 climate strategy outlined a $150 billion “whole-of-Agency approach” to building an "equitable world with net-zero greenhouse gas emissions."
$7.9 million to a project that would teach Sri Lankan journalists to avoid “binary-gendered language.”
$1.1 million to an Armenian LGBT group.
$1.2 million to the African Methodist Episcopal Church Service and Development Agency in Washington, D.C., to build “a state-of-the-art 440-seat auditorium.”
$1.3 million to Arab and Jewish photographers.
$1.5 million to promote LGBT advocacy in Jamaica.
$1.5 million to “rebuild” the Cuban media ecosystem.
$1.5 million for “art for inclusion of people with disabilities.”
$2 million to promote “LGBT equality through entrepreneurship … in developing Latin American countries.
$2.1 million so the BBC can strengthen the media ecosystem in Libya, “designed to value the diversity of Libyan society.”
$2.3 million for “artisanal and small-scale gold mining” in the Amazon.
$2.5 million to promote “inclusion” in Vietnam.
$3.9 million to LGBT causes in the Western Balkans.
$5.5 million
to LGBT in Uganda.
$6 million
to advance LGBT in “priority countries around the world."
$6 million to “Transform Digital Spaces to Reflect Feminist Democratic Principles.”
$6.3 million to men who have sex with men in South Africa.
$8.3 million for “USAID Education: Equity and Inclusion.”
Another $16.8 million to a separate group in Vietnam for “inclusion.”
USAID Programs at Risk of Being Gutted by Elon Musk, and What They Cost
https://www.newsweek.com/usaid-programs-risk-gutted-elon-musk-donald-trump-2026807
DRAG QUEENS IN EQUADOR.
https://img.mewe.com/api/v2/photo/6gko1tQgDyxiUsPyz1dxD9fwRhw4VB6KxAA8SL8C3ytnpHRCpIJVbU3Qjko/1600x1600/img?static={static}
Nebraska representatives respond to Trump administration actions against USAID
https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/nebraska-representatives-respond-to-trump-administration-actions-against-usaid/ar-AA1yqf7s
“The Biden State Department strayed from its core mission in favor of promoting partisan social agendas. It spent $77 million on DEI programs in 2023 alone. It spent $500,000 to promote atheism in Nepal, $45 million on DEI scholarships in Burma, $3 million training environmental activists in Brazil, and $20 million to give Sesame Street to Iraqis. Plus, it spent $47,000 for transgender comic books in Peru, $20,000 for drag shows in Ecuador, and $50,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia. As Secretary Rubio said, foreign aid should promote America’s national interests, not the interests of far-left activists. Senator Ricketts supports his efforts to make sure every dollar we spend makes America safer, stronger, or more prosperous.”
Trump Clears House at Leftist ‘Rogue Operation,’ USAID | Victor Davis Hanson
Trump Clears House at Leftist ‘Rogue Operation,’ USAID | Victor Davis Hanson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXzwhmrWsTM
WUHAN LAB $40 MILLION