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As we were passing through a Haitian street market in the Dominican Republic, we noticed a bag of rice from USAID. USAID has provided hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to Haiti. We now know that this food is not used to feed the hungry, but is instead sold for profit, at the expense …
They call it development money, but it feels more like a subsidy for shaping what people are allowed to hear. When one government funds another country’s media machine, you’re not looking at journalism anymore. USAID is BBC Media Action’s single biggest donor, other than the British government itself. BBC Media Action is the BBC’s giant …
Stephen Colbert is allowed to make fun of Donald Trump all he wants – and he has for years. The problem is when he does it… on a program that costs $100 million to produce, and loses $40 million a year. He's basically Jim Acosta on Substack – hacky jokes, saving democracy… pic.twitter.com/uUFEwNKgFv — Steve …
The State Department has disclosed that 90% of funds allocated through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) failed to reach their intended recipients. The revelation came during a July 2 briefing, where spokesperson Tammy Bruce stated that “the amount of fraud is mind-boggling.” The figure refers to foreign aid disbursed over multiple years, much …
🚨 BREAKING: USAID has OFFICIALLY ceased operations, Secretary Rubio announces This was a TOP priority of @ElonMusk while he was at DOGE, even calling it a “CRIMINAL organization.” The Democrat slush fund for kickbacks and corruption is no more. pic.twitter.com/SKc4AlVywb — Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) July 1, 2025 The U.S. Agency for International Development is no …
Entertainer and activist Bono of the Irish band U2 recently appeared on Joe Rogan’s podcast and defended the USAID program, claiming that as a result of its defunding by the Trump administration, 300,000 people had died around the world. Rogan didn’t dispute Bono’s claim (although he didn’t agree with it either), but pointed out that …
Here’s @MikeBenzCyber explaining how the USAID funneled money to BLM through the Tides Center: pic.twitter.com/sfcPWymj4X — Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 7, 2025 You paid for this… USAID funneled $27 million to Black Lives Matter through the Tides Foundation. pic.twitter.com/eZLiDrDQrA — John LeFevre (@JohnLeFevre) February 6, 2025 From the article: Nearly $170 million in government …
Mind Blowing information from Marco Rubio – Only 12 cents of every dollar spent from USAID went to recipients, the other 88 cents went to NGOs who pocketed the money – Even with the reforms we put in place and what we’re suggesting in changes to our foreign aid, we still will provide more foreign …
A high-ranking USAID official created a fake company, lied to the government, and walked away with pandemic relief money while taxpayers were left holding the bill.
🚨 Biden’s declassified internet censorship plan relied on USAID to “combat online disinformation.” USAID was used to promote “digital literacy” in the US, a term for forcing Americans to get their news solely from legacy sources. pic.twitter.com/J6s9ROac14 — Natalie Winters (@nataliegwinters) April 19, 2025 https://twitter.com/DefiyantlyFree/status/1913795885864993120
A federal appeals court on Friday cleared the way for Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency to resume their efforts to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development. The ruling from a three-judge panel of the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals lifted a lower-court judge’s injunction that had temporarily blocked Musk and …
The latest Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday reveals that 52% of likely U.S. voters approve of President Trump’s job performance, while 46% disapprove. It’s a tight race, but it’s clear: the American people are split, and there are major cracks in the foundation of the Democratic Party. Look at the numbers – …
A budding media start-up producing a culinary docuseries has been stuck in limbo for months. After being approved for USAID funding, the show’s co-founders discovered that the agency’s money never cleared — and now the Trump administration is caught in a legal battle to dismantle USAID. Styling itself as an heir to Anthony Bourdain’s legacy, …
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 …
USAID was the catalyst of corruption. pic.twitter.com/UAaisyszas — The Disrespected Trucker (@DisrespectedThe) March 10, 2025
A senior official at USAID instructed the agency’s remaining staff to convene at the agency’s now-former headquarters in Washington on Tuesday for an “all day” group effort to destroy documents stored there, many of which contain sensitive information. The materials earmarked for destruction include contents of the agency’s “classified safes and personnel documents” at the …
MSNBC’s Jen Psaki never misses a chance to push government talking points, but she conveniently leaves out one key detail—her family’s deep financial ties to USAID. Investigative journalist Natalie Winters just revealed that Psaki’s sister, Stephanie Psaki, worked for nearly a decade at Population Council International, a group that has received hundreds of millions in …
Thank you @MikeBenzCyber for bringing this to light. USAID is about as swampy as it gets. pic.twitter.com/3LwF2e68ej — Anna Paulina Luna (@realannapaulina) February 13, 2025
To review – over the past several weeks, Elon Musk’s team at DOGE have descended on several key levers of power within the US government – including the US Treasury, the Office of Personnel Management, and of course, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) – which was quickly revealed as a rogue, unaccountable …
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 — @amuse (@amuse) February 13, 2025 Here is the wife’s company: https://www.turquoisemountain.org/ The things …
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President Trump’s White House fired the inspector general for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) on Tuesday, a day after the watchdog office issued a report that was critical of the foreign assistance freeze, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to The Hill. USAID’s Inspector General Paul Martin was reportedly fired around 6 …
USAID funded the education of an al-Qaeda leader. byu/External-Noise-4832 inconspiracy Source — it has been confirmed that the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) provided full financial assistance to Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S.-born member of al-Qaeda, for his education at Colorado State University in the 1990s. The disclosure, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, has raised disturbing …
🚨 TED CRUZ: “USAID was flowing money to Gaza, that was going straight to Hamas and they were doing everything they could to hide that.” pic.twitter.com/nan0F5NPpe — Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) February 7, 2025 President Trump and Elon are right to halt funding to USAID. Under Biden, USAID was weaponized to advance leftwing causes globally, boost …
USAID staff are fighting back. Two unions representing USAID employees on Thursday filed a lawsuit over the cuts against Trump, Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, the agency, the State Department and the Treasury Department. ‘What we’re seeing is an unlawful seizure of this agency by the Trump administration in a plain violation of basic …
BBC Link From X: seriously, politico, NPR, AP newswire, all paid big money by the US gov’t. now BBC turns out to get 8% of it’s revenue from US grants through a charity cutout. this is how the lockstep talking point complex was funded and kept in line. USAID was the beating heart of the …
USAID staff are fighting back. Two unions representing USAID employees on Thursday filed a lawsuit over the cuts against Trump, Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, the agency, the State Department and the Treasury Department. ‘What we’re seeing is an unlawful seizure of this agency by the Trump administration in a plain violation of basic …
