Here’s Some Of The Biggest Foreign Aid Boondoggles Bureaucrats Funded Before Trump Put Things On IceWallace White
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February 03, 2025 9:11 PM ET
While Democrats and corporate media outlets rail against President Donald Trump’s freeze on foreign aid, they fail to mention that Washington bureaucrats have poured billions into programs abroad that yield questionable value to American taxpayers.
The New York Times, CNN, NPR and other liberal outlets have painted Trump’s day one executive order halting most foreign aid grants for 90 days as an effort to leave the world out to dry, with lawmakers such as Democratic New York Sen. Chuck Schumer and Democratic Delaware Sen. Chris Coons joining the chorus of condemnation against the loss of taxpayer funding for multi-billion dollar humanitarian programs. The new Trump administration’s goal of reducing government waste has put the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in its crosshairs, with the agency responsible for numerous boondoggles that went unchecked for years, such as large grants for Palestinian initiatives, Afghan aid programs that have a high risk of ending up in Taliban hands and indirectly funding the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
As bureaucrats willingly spent billions overseas to aid foreign nations, the U.S. has grappled with stagnant wages, a hollowed-out manufacturing base and crumbling infrastructure.
“Trump’s been purging and intimidating USAID employees,” Schumer said on X Jan. 31. “Now there’s a rumor he’ll dissolve USAID as an independent agency. It was created by JFK and established in law to further our national security and spread hope. This’d be illegal and against our national interests.”
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