Why USAID is a national security threat.
“It is really, really a sad day in America,” Rep. Ilhan Omar declared at a rally by Democrats outside USAID headquarters protesting President Trump’s reconstruction of the aid agency.
It wasn’t a sad day for America, but it was so for Somalia.
Over the last two years, USAID had funneled $2.3 billion in “humanitarian assistance” to Omar’s native Somalia. Last year it reported a request for $1.6 billion in aid and even with the Biden administration on the way out the door, it sent an additional $29 million in December 2024.
USAID support for Somalia had doubled under the Biden administration and with $3.3 billion from USAID allocated in the last 5 years, the end of the USAID gravy train for the Islamic terrorist state of Somalia must have been a painful blow for Omar, who is very close to the Somali regime. Former Somali Prime Minister Hassan Khaire had reportedly celebrated that “the interest of Ilhan are not Ilhan’s, it’s not the interest of Minnesota, nor is it the interest of the American people, the interest of Ilhan is that of the Somalian people and Somalia.”
It’s unknown if any of Omar’s Majerteen clan members benefited from the billions in American money, but considering the prominence of the clan in Somali politics, it’s likely to be the case.
Somalia, along with other Islamic terrorist entities, including the Taliban in Afghanistan, the Houthis in Yemen, and Hamas in Gaza, were among the top beneficiaries of USAID cash.
USAID boasted of having sent $2.1 billion to Gaza and the West Bank since the Hamas attacks of Oct 7. In 2024 alone, $917 million was programmed for the terrorist areas occupying Israel.
USAID provided over $3.7 billion to Afghanistan since the Taliban took over with $832 million in the previous fiscal year alone. The money was so unaccountable that USAID refused to cooperate with the U.S. Government’s Afghan War watchdog tracking money going to terrorists. --->READ MORE HERE
Why holding unelected bureaucrats accountable is anathema to the Democrat elites.
The U.S. Agency for International Development (“USAID”) has operated for years as a rogue organization inside the federal government’s executive branch, sporting an annual budget of over $23 billion and managing over $40 billion in combined appropriations. Those days are finally over. President Trump has ordered a temporary freeze on most of USAID’s activities and operations and has taken other executive actions to allow a thorough analysis of where all that money is going.
Implementing an executive order issued by President Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that he has taken over as acting administrator of USAID. The State Department has assumed direct control of this atrociously run executive branch agency, which has abused its so-called “independent establishment” status by veering sharply leftward against the national interests of the United States. Secretary Rubio has provided written notice of the Trump administration’s plans for its changes to USAID’s organizational structure and programs to the Republican and Democratic leaders of the Senate and House committees on foreign affairs and relevant appropriations.
Work arrangements with USAID contractors are being terminated or put on hold. Non-essential contractors are being discharged. Many of USAID’s 10,000+ direct hire employees are being placed on paid administrative leave.
USAID is a cesspool of waste, inefficiency, and abuse. Thanks to Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), stones are being turned over to expose the rot underneath. Why, for example, are American taxpayers funding $1.5 million to “advance diversity equity and inclusion in Serbia’s workplaces and business communities,” and $2 million for “LGBT activism” in Guatemala? Why are more than $1 million dollars going to Bangladesh to pay for “gender diversity,” $70,000 to pay for a DEI Musical in Ireland, and $47,000 for a “transgender opera” in Columbia? None of these wasteful projects do anything to advance America’s national interest.
Some nonprofit organizations and United Nations agencies that received money from USAID have undermined America’s national security. For example, USAID funding has been used to support hundreds of thousands of migrants making their way to the U.S.-Mexican border to cross into the U.S. illegally, including from Venezuela.
Even more ominously, hundreds of thousands of dollars have been doled out by USAID for a non-profit linked to designated terrorist organizations. And USAID funneled millions of dollars to EcoHealth Alliance, which helped to fund gain-of-function virus research at the infamous Chinese Wuhan lab – the most likely source of the coronavirus that killed more than seven million people worldwide.
DOGE has uncovered these scandalous expenditures by unaccountable bureaucrats and more. But instead of wanting to be good stewards of the American people’s money, congressional Democrats are outraged that their pet progressive, left-wing projects are in jeopardy.
Democrats are exclaiming that President Trump’s directive regarding the reorganization and downsizing of USAID has created a “constitutional crisis.” Some have accused the president of staging a “coup.” --->READ MORE HERE
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