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Heres a list of some of the things evil Musk found wrong with USAID
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Heres a list of some of the things evil Musk found wrong with USAID


Feb 7, 2025, 7:57 PM
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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 million

to “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.


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.”

I’m guessing all of this is a lie and made up?

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Awesome. 2% saved off the federal budget.***

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Feb 7, 2025, 8:04 PM
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Re: Awesome. 2% saved off the federal budget.***

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Feb 7, 2025, 8:09 PM
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Heck yeah man. Interested to see how much we save off of Medicaid/Medicare and dept of education. We may make it all the way to 10%.

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^^^unbelievable^^^***

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Feb 7, 2025, 8:13 PM [ in reply to Awesome. 2% saved off the federal budget.*** ]
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If she's a hollerer, she'll be a screamer.
If she's a screamer, she'll get you arrested.


Re: Awesome. 2% saved off the federal budget.***

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Feb 7, 2025, 8:13 PM [ in reply to Awesome. 2% saved off the federal budget.*** ]
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Is that 2% right there? That's not just nothing if it is 2%.

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I think that's all USAID. Not the cherry picked stupid spending in the OP***


Feb 8, 2025, 4:19 AM
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Total foreign aid is less than 1% of all federal spending.***


Feb 8, 2025, 8:46 AM
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Re: Total foreign aid is less than 1% of all federal spending...


Feb 8, 2025, 8:51 AM
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And was 1.3% if total spending in 2023.
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Good point. If there's THAT MUCH waste in just the 1%, just think how much


Feb 8, 2025, 9:59 AM
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there could be in the rest...

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I think there's a ton...I just think the admin ought to do it the....


Feb 8, 2025, 10:02 AM
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Right way and identify the waste and then stop the waste vs shutting down entire departments and waiting to see what happens.

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More like .002%. Less than the tax breaks and subsidies

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Feb 7, 2025, 9:26 PM [ in reply to Awesome. 2% saved off the federal budget.*** ]
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Tesla and SpaceX gets.

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Re: Awesome. 2% saved off the federal budget.***

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Feb 8, 2025, 5:31 AM [ in reply to Awesome. 2% saved off the federal budget.*** ]
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If you don’t think that “2%” matters I really don’t know what to say to you. If you see your tax dollars taken from you and spent on that crap I have no words.

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Re: Awesome. 2% saved off the federal budget.***


Feb 8, 2025, 4:32 PM
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Tardawg said:

If you don’t think that “2%” matters I really don’t know what to say to you. If you see your tax dollars taken from you and spent on that crap I have no words.


Tardawg said:

If you don’t think that “2%” matters I really don’t know what to say to you. If you see your tax dollars taken from you and spent on that crap I have no words.


Get ready. When TheRump and the SmellyMusk get the employees that they want fired, checks from the Feds for Soc Security, Medicare, Veterans retirement, Tri-Care, MedicAid will get all screwed-up. Hiring MAGAoids off the streets to do the govt work they can't (mentally) do will be a sad, sad saga. If you're living on Soc Sec, you should be very scared. Not to mention that under Biden's economy the unemployment sank to 3.8%. (FoxFakeNews didn't tell you this, but that was the lowest unemployment in 50 years.) There are not people out there looking for jobs.

And with no fruit and vegetable pickers the price of groceries will soar. Of the bureaucrats they want to remove, probably more than half are buying a house. The banks will think it's 2008 all over again. Foreclosing on houses will soar all across the US as there are many US govt employees in every state.

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Re: Awesome. 2% saved off the federal budget.***

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Feb 8, 2025, 5:35 AM [ in reply to Awesome. 2% saved off the federal budget.*** ]
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It's a start; more to come 👍

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Re: Awesome. 2% saved off the federal budget.***


Feb 8, 2025, 4:55 PM
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SamTate said:

It's a start; more to come 👍


You, sir, have no idea of the shatstorm you are about to go through. Good luck; you will need it.
But -- you deserve it. You believed every lie TheRump told you. (He's only lying when his mouth is moving. Most people know that. Somehow, MAGAoids never learned to fact-check. Sad. You will be so disappointed. Will you admit you were wrong to vote for TheRump? Now, too much pride.

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Re: Heres a list of some of the things evil Musk found wrong with USAID

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Feb 7, 2025, 8:11 PM
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https://x.com/DeepBlueCrypto/status/1887588643105349792

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Re: Heres a list of some of the things evil Musk found wrong with USAID


Feb 7, 2025, 8:17 PM
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Crash....You know you were completely behind the invasion of Iraq by W. It's all just political for you.

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How stupid are you***

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Feb 7, 2025, 8:22 PM
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If she's a screamer, she'll get you arrested.


Re: How stupid are you***


Feb 7, 2025, 8:28 PM
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You sound senile. That aside, did you support the war in Iraq?

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No...I supported turning SA and Afgh into glass parking lots. We didnt do it


Feb 7, 2025, 8:30 PM
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So I was out.

Now tell me what you wanted

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If she's a screamer, she'll get you arrested.


Re: No...I supported turning SA and Afgh into glass parking lots. We didnt do it


Feb 7, 2025, 8:34 PM
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So you really had no realistic idea. I wanted to stay out of Iraq and didn't believe in nation building and didn't believe in the WMD's there. I am sure you were pretty clueless at the time and thought it was needed. You know that's true. You're a very cliche and stereotypical dude that's easy to predict.

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l0l!!84!! go try to troll sumone else...idiot***

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Feb 7, 2025, 8:53 PM
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If she's a hollerer, she'll be a screamer.
If she's a screamer, she'll get you arrested.


Re: l0l!!84!! go try to troll sumone else...idiot***


Feb 7, 2025, 9:01 PM
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Nobody was trolling you fella. Just pointing out your nonsense. By the way what is the 84 stand for that you post quite often?

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1993 called and they want their fake laugh back***


Feb 7, 2025, 10:43 PM [ in reply to l0l!!84!! go try to troll sumone else...idiot*** ]
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Ah, mass genocide.

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Feb 7, 2025, 9:33 PM [ in reply to No...I supported turning SA and Afgh into glass parking lots. We didnt do it ]
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A core American value.

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You're not a good American Christian if you don't advocate for


Feb 7, 2025, 10:44 PM
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killing civilians in response to killing civilians. Some people would call that hypocrisy if they had any self awareness whatsoever.

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Wheres the rest of the list?

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Feb 7, 2025, 8:11 PM
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Is this how audits work? A billionaire tweeting about things he thinks are wasteful that amount to a tiny fraction of what the agency does, and his recommendation to shut the entire agency down?

https://x.com/flying_rodent/status/1887553810358308914?s=46&t=1RmSecnReNkgXBkTvcV_yQ

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EXTREME Billionaire!!***

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Feb 7, 2025, 8:14 PM
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If she's a screamer, she'll get you arrested.


Re: EXTREME Billionaire!!***


Feb 7, 2025, 10:09 PM
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Don't forget unelected and unconstitutional!

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There is likely a lot of mischaracterization in that list.

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Feb 7, 2025, 8:12 PM
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Just like the $50 million for condoms in Gaza, or $43 million for a gas station in Afghanistan. I certainly wouldn’t take it at face value.

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Really? Are you really telling me that...

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Feb 7, 2025, 9:45 PM
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There isn't (or lacks context) "$6.3 million going to men who have sex with men in South Africa!!!?

Pish posh!

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Its funny because they discredit themselves when they

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Feb 8, 2025, 7:20 AM
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post stuff like this, or when the press secretary goes up to the podium and tells Americans that we spent $50 million on condoms for Gaza. Anyone with an ounce of critical thinking knows that’s not true. And it’s a shame, because there absolutely is wasteful spending in our government, but no rational person will take them seriously and support rooting it out when they go around yelling nonsense like that.

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Agreed. The idea there is waste and inefficiencies in government is true...

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Feb 8, 2025, 2:59 PM
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but when you lie like they are and work at a breakneck speed to prevent oversight, it makes you question what the motive is and that's where the concern and issue with Elon/Trump is on this. If Trump set up a bipartisan task force or something and took his time to focus on transparency and doing things the right way he actually could do some real good and win over lots of doubters. But the lying and obfuscating that are typical of TrumpCo. should alarm all level-headed and rational people.

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Dont be mean, kermit

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Feb 7, 2025, 8:21 PM
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https://x.com/miketalksusa/status/1888009045073670398

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What a nothingburger of a list, this is what you guys are freaking out over?***

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Feb 7, 2025, 9:06 PM
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I guess Marco Rubio is an idiot.


Feb 7, 2025, 9:08 PM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Iyre-qTsds

I know a bunch of you will be like, "Oh this is CNN," but this is MARCO'S WORDS."

I know 95% of you won't even watch this.

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Re: I guess Marco Rubio is an idiot.


Feb 7, 2025, 9:12 PM
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I think the list there makes sense, but much of the list from earlier in the thread does not. They don't seem practical.

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Because they are framed that way on purpose

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Feb 7, 2025, 9:27 PM
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I am certainly not saying that there aren’t things that might be worth cutting, but why in the world are we believing a non-transparent organization run by a billionaire who is known to lie, overpromise, and take credit for things outside his control?

This list is crafted for outrage. Without any decent examination of the actual budget items, I see no reason to take it at face value.

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Wait until he digs into the Climate Change racket.

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Feb 7, 2025, 9:39 PM
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That is ripe with corruption.

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Don't worry libs; those NGOs will take your personal checks

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Feb 7, 2025, 10:04 PM
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So, start writing mthr fkrs.

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And quick... Cata needs a new pair of shoes.***


Feb 7, 2025, 11:16 PM
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That's great, seriously... I'm glad that someone is looking in detail....

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Feb 8, 2025, 8:44 AM
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And reporting out the wasteful spending.

He did that in what, 1 week? Why didn't they take a week, find all of the low hanging fruit and kill that funding as a first step versus stopping all funding across the board.

That's the major problem I have with Trump...not what is being done (in general) but how...his execution is sloppy and destructive to his cause. The big ticket programs, like battling AIDS in Africa, for example, are directly apportioned by Congress. When the Dems take the WH at some point...are you going to complain when that admin ignores the role of Congress and the laws that have been enacted by them?

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If they get their way, a Dem wont be president


Feb 8, 2025, 8:46 AM
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again because there won’t be another election.

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Chelsea Clinton's NGO will take a check from you. Don't be a hypocrite.***


Feb 8, 2025, 9:05 AM [ in reply to That's great, seriously... I'm glad that someone is looking in detail.... ]
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Did you not read or did you not understand what I wrote?...


Feb 8, 2025, 9:54 AM
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It's one of those 2 options.

Stop being an idiot

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I sure did. But that is the problem.


Feb 8, 2025, 10:05 AM
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"The big ticket programs, like battling AIDS in Africa, for example"

Most of the problem is that the $$$ is NEVER getting to these causes in the first place. It's a scam.

That's why I brought up Chelsea. Her org provides food for needy Africans. When looking at the expenditures/meals, it comes out to around $1200 per meal. And her new worth has exlpoded. With no other "job" listed. It's a crap money laundering operation using our own tax dollars to support dem candidates. Nothing more.

"I mean, you could, you could almost say — this is a little bit hyperbole — but there's probably more dollars that go towards state dinners around the (Washington) D.C. Beltway than what actually goes into rice and beans abroad," Mast said. But he said during the Trump administration, "It's going to be 99.99% of cents on the dollar actually go towards what it's intended, instead of people around the Beltway."

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Oh horse sheet...put up some dang proof...

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Feb 8, 2025, 3:41 PM
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And a quote from someone is not proof...just because it's enough to get you and you I'll to believe something, doesn't make it proof.

I'm sure there is waste and inefficiency in relief aid...but to say "the $$$ is NEVER getting to these causes in the first place is utter horse crap!"

Show me

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Gates has been claiming the fight on African AIDS for decades... Has he been


Feb 8, 2025, 10:08 AM [ in reply to That's great, seriously... I'm glad that someone is looking in detail.... ]
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commingling funds with USAID? How much of the USAID funds to Haiti ended up in the Clinton Foundation?

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Feb 8, 2025, 4:09 PM
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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 million

to “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.


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.”

I’m guessing all of this is a lie and made up?


This is almost certainly totally made-up crap by the Republicans.

Remember, these are the same MAGAoids that investigated President Biden for almost 2 years (wasting $50,000,000 and a lot of time) and didn't even bother to publish a report -- BECAUSE THEY FOUND NOTHING TO MAKE A LEGITIMATE CASE ON. But most people knew that would happen, because most people DON'T BELIEVE the constant barage of lies from. TheRump, FoxFakeNews and OAN. (EVEN though he lies about it, TheRump got 49.5% of the 2024 votes. Not a majority...)

Of course, in the defense of the GOP committee investiating the Bidens, they were using the Kenneth Star playbook from the Whitewater investigation. That investiagation went on forever, found nothing and wasted $55M, back in the 1990s. That would be about $100M in today's dollars.
The House Republicans are crooks that waste time and money and never do anything good for the American people!
And, yet, the MAGAoids fall for their BS the after time.
Where's the cheaper groceries and gasoline from TheRump? Did he end the war in the Ukraine on his first day in office?

No. And TheRump's worldwide DEPRESSION is cranking up. Grocery costs are about to go sky-high. (Not that TheRump cares. He and his cronies are getting rich.)

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