Rapid Response 47@RapidResponse47 · Feb 3, 2025

USAID has been unaccountable to taxpayers for decades — funneling money to ridiculous (and in many cases, malicious)…

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A thread criticizing USAID for decades of unaccountable spending on questionable projects, citing examples ranging from diversity initiatives in Serbia to alleged funding of terrorist-affiliated organizations and drug production in Afghanistan, with the claim that this waste will end under Trump.

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USAID has been unaccountable to taxpayers for decades — funneling money to ridiculous (and in many cases, malicious) pet projects of entrenched bureaucrats with zero oversight. 🧵 Here are only a few examples of the WASTE and ABUSE:
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— $1.5 million to “advance diversity equity and inclusion in Serbia's workplaces and business communities” — $70,000 for production of a "DEI musical" in Ireland — $2.5 million for electric vehicles for Vietnam dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…
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— $47,000 for a “transgender opera” in Colombia — $32,000 for a “transgender comic book” in Peru dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…
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— $2 million for sex changes and “LGBT activism” in Guatemala dailycaller.com/2024/09/19/fed…
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— $6 million to fund tourism in Egypt 2017-2020.usaid.gov/egypt/press-re…
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— Hundreds of thousands of dollars for a non-profit linked to designated terrorist organizations (even AFTER an inspector general launched an investigation) washingtonexaminer.com/policy/foreign…
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— Millions to EcoHealth Alliance, which was involved in research at the Wuhan lab washingtonexaminer.com/news/486983/us…
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“Hundreds of thousands of meals that went to Al Qaeda-affiliated fighters in Syria” washingtontimes.com/news/2024/nov/…
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— Funding to print “personalized” contraceptives birth control devices in developing countries 3dprintingindustry.com/news/pharme3d-…
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— Hundreds of millions of dollars to fund “irrigation canals, farming equipment, and even fertilizer used to support the unprecedented poppy cultivation and heroin production in Afghanistan,” benefiting the Taliban breitbart.com/national-secur…
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The list literally goes on and on — and it has all been happening for decades. Under President Trump, the waste, fraud, and abuse ENDS NOW.