DOUBLE STORY: USAID grant information and scandal report

February 6, 2025 in Columnists, News by RBN Staff

 

 

STORY #1

Source: PJmedia.com

Comics, Drag, and Atheism: List of USAID’s Outrageous Grants

By CATHERINE SALGADO

 

Condoms for terrorists, “queer-feminist” lectures, and DEI musicals are among the truly outrageous funding initiatives of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). It is long past time for this unconstitutional and useless agency to be shut down so the American people‘s money will not continue to be wasted on absolutely preposterous, woke ideological projects.

I have already exposed the billions of dollars USAID lavished on Hamas-run Gaza, and Matt Margolis and Victoria Taft discussed the cash spent on DEI overseas and Taliban-controlled Afghanistan (including the bin Laden family). But the rabbit hole only goes deeper and wackier. USAID workers and defenders are as crazy as the Mad Hatter and the Cheshire Cat but much less amusing.

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast released a lengthy list on Feb. 4 of some of the most staggeringly stupid USAID grants. Some of them you have probably seen now in other articles or social media posts, but most of them require you to do a double take and read it several times before you can believe this is not a joke.

Read Also: USAID Lavished U.S. Cash on Hamas-Run Gaza

Of course, in the long run, it really is a joke. The joke was practiced by corrupt bureaucrats on the American people. No responsible government could possibly justify “$15 million for condoms to the Taliban through USAID” (especially since the Muslim Taliban bans condoms) or “$446,700 to promote the expansion of atheism in Nepal through the State Department.” But the Democrats and some Republicans and other career bureaucrats have spent so long acting outside the purview of the Constitution and without accountability, that they are flabbergasted that the gravy train just crashed and exploded.

Read some examples below from Mast’s list of other preposterous expenditures of our hard-earned cash, and keep in mind how many Americans were struggling to pay bills or suffering from natural disasters under the Biden-Harris administration:

  • $1 million to boost French-speaking LGBTQ groups in West and Central Africa through the State Department.
  • $14 million in cash vouchers for migrants at the southern border through the State Department.
  • $20,600 for a drag show in Ecuador through the State Department.
  • $47,020 for a transgender opera in Colombia through the State Department.
  • $32,000 for an LGBTQ-centered comic book in Peru through the State Department.
  • $55,750 for a climate change presentation warning about the impact of climate change in Argentina to be led by female and LGBT journalists through the State Department.
  • $3,315,446 for “being LGBTQ in the Caribbean” through USAID.
  • $7,071.58 for a BIPOC speaker series in Canada through the State Department.
  • $80,000 for an LGBTQ community center in Bratislava, Slovakia through the State Department.
  • $3.2 million to help Tunisian migrants readjust to life in Tunisia after deportation through the State Department.
  • $16,500 to foster a “united and equal queer-feminist discourse in Albanian society” through the State Department.
  • $10,000 to pressure Lithuanian corporations to promote “DEI values” through the State Department.

  • $8,000 to promote DEI among LGBTQ groups in Cyprus through the State Department.
  • $1.5 million to promote job opportunities for LGBTQ individuals in Serbia through USAID.
  • $70,884 to create a U.S.-Irish musical to promote DEI in Ireland through the State Department.
  • $39,652 to host seminars at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on gender identity and racial equality through the State Department.
  • $2.5 million to build electric vehicle charging stations in Vietnam’s largest cities through USAID [this is especially silly since most Vietnamese are too dirt-poor for any car; I’ve seen that in person].
  • $425,622 to help Indonesian coffee companies become more climate and gender friendly through USAID.

It’s all a total grift. No more than 12 cents of every USAID dollar actually reaches the intended target. It seems pretty clear that the agency is little more than a money-laundering operation and, as such, it’s praiseworthy and long overdue that the Trump administration aims to shut it down.

 

 

STORY #2

Source: RedState.com

NEW: Massive Press Scandal As USAID Funding for ‘Politico’ Revealed, and It Gets Worse From There

By Bonchie

With the white-hot light of accountability firmly on USAID, more and more details are coming out about what your taxpayer money was being spent on. From transgender comic books to promoting Moroccan pottery classes, to propagandizing Sri Lankan journalists on the supposed evils of “gender-binary” language, the level of waste and corruption is hard to fathom.

Below is just a small sample of the inexcusable far-left excesses that were funded by hard-working Americans, many of which can barely make ends meet after four years of the Biden administration.

RELATED: Joni Ernst Drops Devastating Thread on USAID, and You Won’t Believe Where Your Money Has Been Going

Things are about to get much worse, though, so buckle up. According to recently revealed records, left-leaning news outlet Politico received over thirty-four million dollars from USAID and other government agencies. That money went to pay for “subscriptions” for various bureaucratic officials, including “pro” subscriptions that add up to over $10,000 a pop.

 

A breakdown of some of the expenditures shows USAID paid $443,998 for just 37 subscriptions to Politico for FDA officials. Another outlay for “subscriptions” cost $862,025.

Politico has never disclosed those payments even as they’ve written pieces covering USAID, posing as unbiased arbiters of truth. That represents one of the biggest scandals in the history of the press. The United States government was funneling money to a left-wing news outlet that has repeatedly done the bidding of the Democratic Party. As an example, you may remember Politico as the same news site that laundered the infamous letter from “51 intelligence officials” saying the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation.

In other words, it sure looks like the Biden administration was paying a news outlet to do its bidding. Are we supposed to believe it’s just a coincidence that Politico was routinely the go-to for Democratic Party politicians and officials to launder their propaganda?

There’s more, though, and while it’s speculative, it’s certainly a pretty big coincidence. After all the funding from USAID to Politico got shut down in late January, they suddenly missed their next pay period, claiming “technical difficulties.”

If you’ve ever wondered how some of these left-wing news outlets stay afloat financially, what has been revealed about Politico is one big reason. Democrats use federal agencies to funnel money for the express purpose of influencing elections and pushing left-wing ideology. It’s been out in the open with organizations like NPR and PBS, but the level of corruption we are going to find out about will be mind-blowing. This is just the tip of the iceberg.

Politico should not survive this. To take millions of dollars from the entity you are covering and not let your readers know about it is a huge breach of journalistic ethics. Hopefully, this leads to major investigations because does anyone actually believe it costs $447,998 for 37 subscriptions to a news site? If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s probably a duck.

 

 

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