Well, that struck a nerve.
Of all the things Donald Trump is doing to upend the old order in Washington, it turns out that closing USAID, even temporarily, is the one thing that all Democrats can agree is egregious enough to go to war over.
Hysterical reactions like this is how you know that @DOGE is doing work that really matters.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 4, 2025
This is the one shot the American people have to defeat BUREAUcracy, rule of the bureaucrats, and restore DEMOcracy, rule of the people. We’re never going to get another chance like… https://t.co/rwBqcp7veQ
I wonder why.
The least surprising thing ever is watching Democrats defend the CIA front known as USAID, deceitfully depicting it as just some nice organization that wants to help: https://t.co/VciilIp11R pic.twitter.com/qpkD1o1btY
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) February 3, 2025
Democrats held a rally outside the USAID headquarters, highlighting how important the agency is and how much they stand with the fine folks who spend tens of billions of your money every year on things like creating a Sesame Street in Iraq to promote inclusion or do gender studies seminars for women in Afghanistan.
USAID… Like a child with YOUR credit card.
— Wesley Hunt (@WesleyHuntTX) February 3, 2025
Here’s what YOU funded:
🚨 $20 MILLION for a Sesame Street in Iraq
🚨 $56 MILLION to boost tourism in Egypt & Tunisia
🚨 $40 MILLION to build schools in Jordan
🚨 $11 MILLION to tell Vietnam to stop burning trash
🚨$27 MILLION… pic.twitter.com/GS5yYtQChC
You know how videogames suddenly went completely woke? Everybody suddenly became gay, or transgender, or some variation of "queer?" USAID did that.
USAID also funded videogames to highlight gender issues. pic.twitter.com/2klCWeDGZa
— Grummz (@Grummz) February 3, 2025
USAID spent:
— Jeff Carlson (@themarketswork) February 3, 2025
$2.5 million to promote DEI in Serbia
$70,000 for a DEI musical in Ireland
$47,000 for a transgender opera in Columbia and;
$32,000 for a transgender comic book in Peru
Holy crap!! Our tax dollars being set on fire... pic.twitter.com/1FCPgx4ip6
Of course, much of what USAID does is much more nefarious than that. It is the primary funder for all sorts of political activism both here and abroad.
Chris Murphy: USAID supports freedom fighters everywhere in this world"
— Jeff Carlson (@themarketswork) February 3, 2025
Thanks for proving that USAID is a CIA front that promotes Regime Change all over the world Chris pic.twitter.com/4sFKkIWSt9
Cutting a bureaucracy, according to the Democrats, is dictatorship in action.
If Ilhan is furious about defunding USAID then you know it’s great for America. pic.twitter.com/xqb9lj0WoW
— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) February 3, 2025
Chip Roy produced a long thread on X outlining some of the most ridiculous spending that has gone through USAID, and it is a doozy.
What you've been paying for through USAID: pic.twitter.com/w4UymkHKLZ
— Rep. Chip Roy Press Office (@RepChipRoy) February 3, 2025
But the absurd spending is almost a smokescreen. Democrats are not up in arms because transgender representation in video games is their key concern.
I just stumbled on a ProPublica site with a tool built in that allows you to see the money wasted by USAID and DoD on failed projects in Afghanistan (up until 2015) and then see what it could have funded in America.
— MAZE (@mazemoore) February 4, 2025
USAID spent $335 million on a diesel fueled power plant that… pic.twitter.com/ZucHAIMjiD
With $60 billion a year on the line, what really matters to them is the flow of money into "consultants," censorship organizations, secret programs, and most especially, the pockets of the transnational elite.
The corrupt politicians “protesting” outside the USAID building are the ones getting money from USAID.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 3, 2025
That’s why they’re there – they want your stolen tax dollars! https://t.co/5yVDqg0mjw
USAID poured money into the Wuhan Institute of Virology through the EcoHealth Alliance and funded it through 2024 despite its obvious connection to COVID. It is a money laundering organization, and all those absurd line items of spending are just a small part of the payoffs to leftist groups that back the Democrats.
In 2014, Victoria Nuland, Assistant Secretary of the State Department, was caught on the phone with the US Ambassador to Ukraine, basically deciding who gets to play president in their little puppet show after pulling off the Maidan coup.
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) February 3, 2025
This is the call RFK Jr. is referring to https://t.co/kXPs3oISgz pic.twitter.com/Ze0QK8oSEf
USAID helped pay for the "color revolutions" around the world and not coincidentally shoveled money and prestige to Burisma when Hunter Biden was on the board.
USAID - The Ultimate Nerve Center Of A Rogue Foreign Policy Establishment pic.twitter.com/jz9nJsmzw0
— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) February 2, 2025
It is the slush fund for the transnational elite, and as such it is one of the most important organs of the Deep State.
That's why Democrats are willing to go to war over it. This isn't about funneling money to people starving in Africa. It is about funneling money to the elite of the elite.
USAID was deeply involved, with the Clinton Foundation, in the skimming of billions from the Haiti reconstruction after the massive earthquake.
The Clinton Foundation raked in Millions from USAID.
— Publius (@OcrazioCornPop) February 3, 2025
In 2010, USAID managed $4.4 billion for Haiti under Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
The Clinton Foundation was a significant player in those Haiti "efforts".
Where did the money go?@DOGE @elonmusk pic.twitter.com/EU0fklFNHQ
For some reason--we all know why--USAID handles a lot of classified information. Trump should strip all USAID workers of their security clearances, making it illegal for them to handle anything in the building regardless of anything the Democrats or the courts do.
As I wrote yesterday, Trump is going after the pillars of the Democratic Party and transnational elite power structures, and USAID is obviously near the center of it all.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio just absolutely RIPPED the deep state slush fund known as USAID:
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) February 3, 2025
"I am the acting director of USAID."
"My frustrations with USAID goes back to my time in Congress. It's a completely unresponsive agency, it's supposed to respond to policy… pic.twitter.com/xKO8fmTYwS
Look at how Democrats are squealing. You know that there is a lot buried there. There is a reason why Samantha Power was put there under Biden, and it wasn't to save babies in Africa.
President Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and their Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are undermining democracy and national security by taking over the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), say Democrats and the media.
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) February 3, 2025
“This is a five alarm fire,” wrote… pic.twitter.com/kMQwtnFD7A
Democrats are making it clear that they will fight like cornered rats to keep control of USAID and its massive funding stream.
We all know why, which is why Trump needs to win this battle one way or another.
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