It's official: USAID is dead. This is a huge win — not just for America, but for all of Western civilization. Here’s…

It's official: USAID is dead. This is a huge win — not just for America, but for all of Western civilization. Here’s why. 🧵

Much of this has already been documented at length: Through USAID, billions of U.S. tax dollars were funneled to radical NGOs, media outlets, "civil society" groups, and foreign bureaucracies that actively worked against both American interests and conservative values worldwide.

These left-wing systems operate across borders, through international bureaucracies and NGOs. So the left-wing activism we fund abroad always comes home. For example: The State Department dumped billions into refugee NGOs that facilitated mass migration in Europe AND America.

These groups, linked with bureaucracies like the UN, were directly involved in the migration crisis in Europe. At the same time, they were running an end-to-end migration network here—guiding migrants up to our border, giving them cash, and resettling them in U.S. communities.

Another example is censorship—an issue I know especially well. As I detailed in the thread below, USAID was part of a global censorship enterprise, funneling U.S. dollars to "disinformation" groups that worked to silence conservatives, here and abroad.

Eric Schmitt@Eric_Schmitt · Mar 12, 2025

The Left spent the past decade building a vast censorship enterprise. A shadowy network of NGOs, tech groups and governments working to censor the Left's enemies—not just in America, but across the West. Over the next four years, the GOP must expose + dismantle this system. 🧵

The Missouri v. Biden lawsuit I filed in 2022 forced the Biden administration to release 20,000 pages of evidence exposing their collusion with these huge NGOs. I led a hearing last week laying out how this global system is weaponized against Americans:

Eric Schmitt@Eric_Schmitt · Mar 25, 2025

Your tax dollars funded one of the largest censorship operations in modern history. Here’s how it worked.

And that's just two examples. Every left-wing cause was funded, in part, by programs like USAID. Under Biden, USAID began aggressively promoting gender ideology across the world. This is from USAID's 2023 manifesto—note the repeated emphasis on "gender-diverse individuals":

These things are bad on the merits. But they're also actively harming our friends in other Western nations—and they're undermining our relationship with them.

And again, these organizations are transnational. The NGOs operate across and between borders. They partner with the UN, the EU, and (until recently) the U.S. State Department. So when you empower the Left abroad, you're also empowering them at home.

But the opposite is also true: When you defund the Left abroad, you're also knocking out their supply lines here at home. President Trump just removed a huge obstacle for conservatives and patriots across the West. This is a victory for everyone who's fighting globalism.

For years, Americans were treated like a tax farm for the Global Left. Programs like USAID served as a slush fund for a permanent class of radical left-wing activists. But that's over now. The international left-wing gravy train just came to an end. —END