British politician's wife was nearly set to receive $1 million in USAID funding, but Trump canceled it.

Why were U.S. taxpayers funding this nonsense in the first place?

USAID: The NGO which Rory Stewart’s wife works for just has its USAID funding cancelled, The Turquiose Mountain Foundation, teaches ‘liberated’ Afghan women about modern art like Duchamp’s urinal. pic.twitter.com/0IJdoF2Rwn

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Here is the wife’s company:
https://www.turquoisemountain.org/

The things they claim to do is just weird. Most of the things are done in rich countries like Saudi Arabia. I doubt any of this goes to real projects, sounds like plain old money laundering to me.

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h/t Doctor Congo