USAID, the country’s chief international aid agency, enjoys an annual budget of over $40 billion in appropriations—much of it splurged on a host of far-left foreign causes that run counter to Trump’s America First agenda. “They’re not a global charity,” Rubio said of USAID’s spending spree. “These are taxpayer dollars. People are asking simple questions. What are they doing with the money?”

Here are some of the most horrific projects, outrageous initiatives, and biggest boondoggles USAID has financed:

1. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Until Trump’s funding freeze, USAID was actively paying for “sex-change” procedures in Guatemala. USAID poured $2 million into Asociación Lambda, a Guatemalan LGBTQ+ activist organization, to “strengthen trans-led” activism and provide “gender-affirming health care,” grant records show. Launched in April 2024, the five-year program was slated to span through the spring of 2027.

Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL), the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s new chairman, released a report Tuesday exposing USAID’s frivolous DEI-related expenses. Among them, Mast reported, $1 million went toward supporting French-speaking LGBTQ+ groups in West and Central Africa, $3.3 million was blown on normalizing “being LGBTQ in the Caribbean,” and $425,600 helped Indonesian coffee companies become “more climate and gender friendly.”

Mast said $1.5 million had gone toward promoting job opportunities for LGBTQ-identifying individuals in Serbia, $16,500 for fostering a “united and equal queer-feminist discourse in Albanian society,” $47,000-plus on a “transgender opera” in Colombia, $32,000 for an LGBTQ-centered comic book in Peru, $70,880 on a musical promoting DEI in Ireland, $20,600 for a drag show in Ecuador, over $7,000 for a BIPOC speaker series in Canada, more than $39,650 to host seminars at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on “gender identity and racial equality,” $80,000 on an LGBTQ community center in Slovakia, $10,000 on pressuring Lithuanian corporations to push DEI messaging, and $8,000 to promote DEI among LGBTQ+ groups in Cyprus.

USAID’s Office of Chief Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility notified Congress just before Christmas that they’ve earmarked money (about $1 million) for several programs that will support “marginalized” groups in Indonesia, Guatemala, and Kenya. The funding notice said USAID would “engage with Indigenous-led institutions to implement an Indigenous language technology program” in Guatemala.

2. Climate Activism

In March 2023, USAID set aside up to $1 million to help disabled people in Tajikistan become “climate leaders.” The grant notice solicited proposals for a “Disability-Inclusive Climate Action” project in the Central Asian country that would ensure that disabled Tajikistanis are included “in the development of climate change response and mitigation policies.”

In May 2023, USAID unveiled a $1.5 million effort aimed at “empowering women to adapt to climate change in northern Kenya.” Women in the area, USAID wrote, live in “traditionally patriarchal communities” and need training to join Kenya’s fight against climate change. The program would “improve their participation in decision making” and “enhance adaptive capabilities to climate change.”

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Morning Intelligence Report

MG Paul E Vallely, US Army (Ret)

By
George Mcclellan

Guest Editorial:

January 11, 2025

The rapid collapse of the Democrat Party upon their 05 Nov. 2024 election disaster not only crushed the party of national disunity but also erased any illusion that they were even remotely capable of leading this great nation into prosperity. That’s not their agenda! In the wake of their sinking schemes, swirls the flotsam and jetsam of failure. Their failure to safeguard and protect Americans in the wake of destructive hurricanes and fires that have destroyed vast areas of American landscapes, their failure to protect Donald Trump from assassination attempts, and the failure to stop terrorists on American streets was a purposeful failure of responsibility to do what’s right by the Constitution and the rule of law to implant a Socialist agenda!

Devastation by natural causes, like storms and fire, cannot always be blamed on God. But what we have witnessed is the purposeful failure of preparation. Why? Because taxpayer funds appropriated by Congress for the purpose were reconfigured by bureaucrats to financially support illegal invaders, including vicious criminals, support DEI and other “woke” programs of affirmative action, all unconstitutional while draining the taxpayer’s coffers. DEI schemes are specific Progressive plans to lower the standards of all federal, state, and local governments, including the FBI, as we saw in the New Orleans terrorist attack and in the LAFD chief’s response to their failures to provide needed firefighting. Did I fail to include the leader of the LA Water Department, who drained all the fire hydrants in Pacific Palisades? She’s one! These people need to be tried and punished!

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