Department of Government Efficiency? Sounds like an oxymoron, right? Well, its not, and Elon is running with it! He has found billions of misspent dollars in USAID, and is in the process of shutting it down and moving the real work over to the State Department.
Here is a list of some of the crazy spending USAID was involved in:
- $50 million to fund condoms in Gaza
- $1.5 million to advance DEI in Serbia’s workplaces
- $70,000 for the production of a DEI musical in Ireland
- $47,000 on a transgender opera in Colombia
- $32,000 for a transgender comic in Peru
- $37 million to the World Health Organization
- $16 million in funding for institutional contractors in gender development offices
- $4 million of funding for the Center for Climate-Positive Development
- $12 million in support services to the Bureau for Resilience, Environment, and Food Security
- $6 million in non-emergency funding for redundant administrative supports for the Center of Excellence
- $3 million in non-emergency funding to provide evaluation services for planning and learning programs
- $600,000 to fund technical assistance for family planning in Latin America
This is quite a list, and assuredly is not a complete one. None of these payments had anything to do with their stated objective, and making matters worse, DOGE was initially blocked from getting into USAID files. Since then there have been a number of lawsuits aimed at attempting to save USAID from its eventual demise, and the Democrats are going crazy about it. DOGE also found out that spending doubled from $20 billion in 2017 to $42 billion in 2023.
Why are the Democrats so adamant about saving USAID? Their fingerprints are all over this rogue agency. So are those of the CIA, FBI, NSA, and other alphabet agencies. Millions hae also gone to Gaza, and most likely all that aid went to Hamas. There is also mention that USAID money was used to thwart DJT’s first Administration. Why, because USAID had become a slush fund for nefarious operations that would never have been approved by Congress or the Executive Branch. In every way, this has been a outlaw agency accountable to no one. That’s why there is so much push back resisting the audit!
Now 19 blue state Attorney Generals are suing the Trump administration to attempt to keep DOGE away from the USAID, and to stop the effort to put employees of this agency from being put on paid leave. They will fail, but they will also delay.
The Democrats are planning to delay and possibly stop DOGE from going into other agencies. They are very worried that DOGE will be successful and also expose what they have been doing for decades. Expect more lawsuits and fake news to be around until this process is finally over! They are melting down and claiming that DOGE is illegal and unconstitutional. They are painting Elon Musk and DOGE as a horrible breach of justice. None of that is true, as the Executive branch is in charge of ensuring that Federal monies are not fraudulently spent, but this is the hill they have chosen to die on.
Stay tuned! It will be very interesting!