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Patriots, rejoice: USAID, that all-purpose piggy bank for far-left ideologues and jihad terrorists the world over, is now in its final days, and not a moment too soon. USAID has rightly been Exhibit A in DOGE’s contention that the federal government has been wasting staggering amounts of money for years, and it is a massive victory for the Trump administration that this sinister agency, which has also been actively funding America’s enemies, is on its way to the dustbin of history.
The New York Post reported that Trump’s State Department “formally announced Friday it is closing the US Agency for International Development (USAID) after the Trump administration prevailed in a federal court case challenging the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) cost-cutting actions.” At last, some sanity from the courts; we can all be grateful that the Trump-hating Judge Boasberg didn’t get assigned this one on top of all the other stop-Trump cases he has “randomly” been given.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio explained: “Foreign assistance done right can advance our national interests, protect our borders, and strengthen our partnerships with key allies. Unfortunately, USAID strayed from its original mission long ago. As a result, the gains were too few and the costs were too high.” You can say that again, Marco.
The State Department’s U.S. Office of Palestinian Affairs proudly announced in Nov. 2024 that “the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is providing $230 million in additional funding to support economic recovery and development programs in the West Bank and Gaza.” This was on top of a jaw-dropping amount of money USAID had already ponied up: “Since 2021, USAID/West Bank and Gaza has invested over $600 million in economic support funding of the Palestinian people, in addition to the over $2.1 billion in humanitarian assistance since October 7, 2023.”
Yes, over two billion to the Palestinians after Hamas massacred 1,200 Israelis, and despite the fact that Hamas stole massive amounts of this “humanitarian aid” and used it to pay its jihad terrorists. And that wasn’t even close to all. USAID also sent mad stacks of “humanitarian aid” to other haters of America, most notably the Taliban.
All in all, USAID sent no less than $18.5 billion to Islamic terror-supporting states in the last few years, including $2.7 billion to Yemen, from which the Houthis menace American shipping; $660 million to Pakistan, which hid Osama bin Laden for years and is still home to innumerable jihad terrorists; $700 million to Iraq, which is essentially a puppet state of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and no less than $3.4 billion to Assad’s Syria, a much higher-profile Iranian client. $1.1 billion went to Lebanon while it was under the control of Hezbollah.
Then there was the comically absurd and/or money laundering side of USAID. The Post noted that “House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Brian Mast (R-Fla.) had called out several USAID grants last month — including $2.5 million for electric vehicles in Vietnam, $47,000 for “a transgender opera in Colombia” and $32,000 for the production of a Peruvian “transgender comic book.”
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Billy says
NO MONEY should be given to Muslim-majority Countries(50+ Islamic Countries) because of Islam’s terrorism, gang criminality, discrimination, and violence against Non-Muslims as taught in the Quran(Quran 9:5,29,111 and more).
Islam, a Terrorist-Criminal Enterprise, and its predatory believers continually fund, promote, and practice ideological subversion, propaganda, bigotry, discrimination, deceit, supremacy, segregation, hatred, violence, and terrorism as taught in Islamic Law and in Islam’s Quran, and Muslim actions should be legally challenged with a multi-faceted force of Western Laws like Muslims wield against Americans and Westerners(Quran 9:5,29; 49:15; 60:4 and more).
Like a Foreign Terrorist Organization(FTO) designated by the USA Secretary of State, Islam is a MUSLIM TERRORIST ORGANIZATION(MTO) fighting against Non-Muslims and NOT A PEACEFUL religion under Western Law because Islam funds, teaches, and promotes a Terrorist Criminal Organization with Muslims as Terrorists for Allah(Quran 9:5,29; 49:15 and more). Under Islam and Islamic Law, Muslims have the legal right to terrorize Non-Muslims because neglecting this QURANIC DUTY is a Crime against Allah; Jihad means warfare against Non-Muslims to ESTABLISH ISLAM’S RELIGION(Quran 3:151; 9:5,29,111; Muslim Law Manual: “Reliance of the Traveller”, o9.0 and more).
More specifically, Islam, a terroristic-destructive way of life, is a Muslim Terrorist Ideology and Murderous, Criminal Enterprise of intolerance, continuous war, discrimination, segregation, supremacy, genocide, polygamy, propaganda, deceit, hatred, incitement, sedition, rape, terrorism, and violence against all Non-Muslims as taught in the Quran(Quran 2:216; 4:65,89,95; 5:14,64; 8:12,39,74; 9:5,21,29,36, 41,49,73,88,111,123; 21:92; 49:15; 60:4 and more).
PRCS USN (ret) says
Rubio said: “Thanks to President Trump, this misguided and fiscally irresponsible era is now over. We are reorienting our foreign assistance programs to align directly with what is best for the United States and our citizens.”
Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
There’s no “baby” here. Just bathwater, w/ floating pieces of turd. W/ the courts deciding whether they should be removed and flushed down the toilet, or just allowed to go down the bathtub drain. Reminds me of the Seinfeld episodes w/ the “peeing in the shower” controversy, and whether separate pipes were significant
PRCS USN (ret) says
Quoting directly from the article:
We are reorienting our foreign assistance programs to align directly with what is best for the United States and our citizens.”
Reorienting, not ending.
The baby remains.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
One thing I’ve noticed about this USAID shutdown is that none of the other countries where this money was headed have complained. Normally, one would expect them to scramble and contact the president, just as they have been doing whenever he’s announced new tariffs. But no, not a word
The fact that only the Dems have been bitching about it should tell us a story about where that money ultimately ended
James Lincoln says
Very perceptive, Infidel.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Thank you, James
WPM says
I heard some Africa countries are happy the aid is ending ,because their people who needed it never received the aid ear mark for them .It disappeared either their own leader stole it or our representatives sole it or the NGO stole it (usually run by friends of elected US officials or family members like Hunter)) or all three split up the stealing .It seems easier for money to disappear when it flows threw so many thieving fingers on two or three countries and half a dozen agencies .Everyone get a taste as gangsters’ say I guess that is how on a Senator’s salary you can be worth 200 or 300 million in less then 20 years .The second biggest house in the African village is the head law enforcement house after the Mayor’s house.
OLD GUY says
Good USAID is just a money funnel to deep pocket politicians at home and abroad.