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USAID’s $200M Tab: $10M Of Meals To Al Qaeda Linked Terrorists, Millions More To DEI

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The Trump administration has flagged nearly $200 million in questionable spending by the U.S. Agency for International Development, which Elon Musk and his team have put in their crosshairs for cutting alleged waste and abuse.

Among the most stunning revelations from a White House list of questionable spending was nearly $10 million USAID spent on meals that went to al Qaeda-funded terrorist groups.

Then there was the roughly $75 million USAID spent on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in foreign countries.

Some of those recipients of taxpayer dollars included:

• $16.8 million to support equitable outcomes in inclusion in Vietnam.
• $8.3 million for “equity and inclusion” education.
• $7.9 million to teach Sri Lankan journalists to avoid “binary-gender language.”
• $6.3 million to study men having sex with other men in South Africa.
• $6 million to advance LGBTQ principles in “priority countries around the world.”
• $5.5 million to promote LGBTQ causes in Uganda.
• $3.9 million to promote LGBTQ causes in Western Balkans.
• $2.5 million to promote inclusion in Vietnam.
• $2 million for sex changes and LBGTQ “activism” and sex changes in Guatemala.
• $1.5 million to advance “diversity, equity and inclusion” in Serbian workplaces.

USAID also spent millions to promote transgenderism through various media outlets including using $47,000 of taxpayer funds to produce a transgender opera in Colombia, $32,000 for a transgender opera in Columbia, $70,000 for a “DEI-themed musical” in Ireland and $2 million for a “transgender comic book in Peru.”

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So you are talking about $58 million dollars in potentially poorly spent money.

This from an agency that donated $1.8 billion to Catholic Relief Services alone. Let's count the zeroes. 58,000,000. Hm. 6 zeroes. Now let's count the zeroes in the good they do for just one agency---out of many they support. 1,800,000,000. Hm... 8 zeroes. Now let's divide to see how much of a percentage was wasted---remember, just looking at what they gave one agency. Wow. 3/10th of 1% of the money given to just one agency was 3/10th of 1% mismanaged.

Now let's try to estimate how many Africans and Asians have died since Catholic Relief Services has been cut in half. How many have died from starvation, dehydration, malaria.

1,000,000,000? 1,000,000,???,???,??? The total goes up every day. It's kind of hard defending the indefensible, isn't it?
 
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