USAID: A deep state slush fund exposed and defunded

by Dale Courtney | Feb 11 2025

Trump and Musk just smashed one of the Deep State’s biggest cash cows: USAID. For years, this bloated agency funneled taxpayer money into global activism, corruption and election interference, all while posing as humanitarian aid. With a $44.2 billion budget -- bigger than the CIA and State Department combined -- it operated with zero accountability. I first noticed USAID’s corruption in 2005, when it was caught funding a prostitution ring in India. That was my wake-up call: This agency wasn’t about humanitarian aid -- it was a taxpayer-funded, progressive racket.

USAID wasn’t just wasteful -- it was weaponized. The DOGE team uncovered more than $200 million funneled to EcoHealth Alliance, the same group that partnered with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where COVID-19 originated. Worse, USAID directly sent $1 million to WIV itself. Why was a so-called “aid” agency bankrolling communist bioresearch?

Meanwhile, the following is just a fraction of what the DOGE exposed as USAID’s taxpayer-funded waste:

• $4.6 billion to Catholic Relief Services.
• $164 million to “radical groups.”
• $15 million for condoms to the Taliban.
• $14 million in cash vouchers for migrants at the southern border.
• $10 million for creating transgender animals.
• $3.3 million for “being LGBTQ in the Caribbean.”
• $3.2 million to help Tunisian migrants readjust to life in Tunisia after deportation.
• $2.5 million to build electric vehicle charging stations in Vietnam’s largest cities.
• $1.5 million to promote job opportunities for LGBTQ individuals in Serbia.
• $1 million to boost French-speaking LGBTQ groups in West and Central Africa.
• $446,700 to promote the expansion of atheism in Nepal.
• $425,622 to help Indonesian coffee companies become more climate- and gender-friendly.
• $80,000 for an LGBTQ community center in Bratislava, Slovakia.
• $55,750 for a climate change presentation in Argentina led by female and LGBT journalists.
• $47,020 for a transgender opera in Colombia.
• $39,652 for gender identity and racial equality seminars at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.
• $32,000 for an LGBTQ-centered comic book in Peru.
• $20,600 for a drag show in Ecuador.
• $16,500 to foster a “united and equal queer-feminist discourse in Albanian society.”
• $10,000 to pressure Lithuanian corporations to promote “DEI values.”

This is where your tax dollars went -- while American families struggle with inflation and a crumbling economy.

How does any of this alleviate poverty? As Ron Paul points out, U.S. foreign aid strips hard-earned money from struggling American taxpayers and hands it to foreign governments, bureaucrats and global elites, fueling globalist agendas while rarely benefiting the people it claims to help.

But USAID’s corruption didn’t stop at funding foreign radicalism -- it actively worked against Americans, too. In 2019, the agency funneled $20 million to bribe journalists, smear Rudy Giuliani, and push Trump’s impeachment. New documents reveal USAID and the CIA worked together to execute a deep state coup, using taxpayer dollars to remove a sitting president. This wasn’t “foreign aid” -- it was treason.

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