In the last few days, Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (“DOGE”) has effectively put an end to USAID, gelded the General Services Administration (GSA) tech division, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), and the Treasury, and fired corrupt people in the FBI – and that’s just the short list.
With the war on USAID, GSA, OPM, and the Treasury alone, DOGE is saving taxpayers at a rate of one billion per day. All of this has driven the Democrats into a frenzy as they insist that an elected president managing the government is a coup. Unfortunately for them (but not for us), they don’t have a legal leg to stand on.
President Kennedy founded USAID via Executive Order 10973 in November 1961: “Administration of Foreign Assistance and Related Functions.” It was meant to be a permanent clearing house that would work with the State Department to distribute money intended to help advance technology and financial competence in low-income countries. It reflected the fact that, in 1961, the U.S. was still the last country standing after WWII. The vision was to benefit America by fortifying poor countries against Soviet depredation.
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USAID has strayed far from that mandate. The Daily Mail assembled a helpful list of examples of USAID’s hard-left blank check policy. This list includes:
- $30 million to study HIV in Africa among sex workers and so-called “transgender” people.
- $38 million to the Wuhan Institute of Virology and other Chinese research labs.
- $1.5 million to an LGBTQ+ group in Serbia.
- $2.5 million for electric vehicles for Vietnam, with only one battery station built.
- Money for a “trans” care clinic in Vietnam.
- $25,000 for a “trans” opera in Colombia
- $32,000 for “trans” comic books in Peru.
- $500,000 to expand atheism in Nepal.
USaid needs be completely disappear, the sooner the better
The CIA and associated agencies are squawking over the loss of their untraceable bribe, drug and murder money.