Trump Shutting Down USAID

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In reply to CatD11Ag • 9:28a, 5/12/25
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CatD11Ag said:
Insanity.

The entire idea was to keep those NGOs in business over the next several years working to implement the subversive Dem plans and also help a Dem get elected in 2028.
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9:45a, 5/12/25
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It's insane. No matter HOW BAD you thought it was, it's an order of magnitude worse.
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In reply to nortex97 • 12:30p, 5/12/25
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Agree - I need to see some of them walked out in handcuffs.
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In reply to nortex97 • 1:01p, 5/12/25
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All kinds of statutes that could be used here. Criminal and civil, to say nothing of administrative procedures.

If the DoJ is remotely serious.

But as of right now, there's no evidence to believe that is the case.
It's been 3.5 months. These types of cases would take a significant amount of time and effort. These webs are so intertwined that it would be impossible to untangle it all that quickly. What do you honestly expect after this short of time? It will likely be over a year before any real charges are brought. You have to be realistic here.

As long as people are ultimately held accountable with legitimate penalties, then who gives a ***** I want them to take a reasonable about of time that is needed to put together air tight cases to easily prove anything and everything in court. This will be so convoluted, an average person on a jury will have their head spinning and have no clue how to decipher it.
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In reply to Touchless • 12:39a, 5/13/25
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nortex97 said:
All kinds of statutes that could be used here. Criminal and civil, to say nothing of administrative procedures.

If the DoJ is remotely serious.

But as of right now, there's no evidence to believe that is the case.
It's been 3.5 months. These types of cases would take a significant amount of time and effort. These webs are so intertwined that it would be impossible to untangle it all that quickly. What do you honestly expect after this short of time? It will likely be over a year before any real charges are brought. You have to be realistic here.

As long as people are ultimately held accountable with legitimate penalties, then who gives a ***** I want them to take a reasonable about of time that is needed to put together air tight cases to easily prove anything and everything in court. This will be so convoluted, an average person on a jury will have their head spinning and have no clue how to decipher it.
This is completely true. I would suggest these are different times possibly.

I could be all wet, but the gathering of evidence should be greatly enhanced now that there are folks who know how to use the super-charged research tools (ie - DataRepublican/DOGE/AI/etc), which should definitely help put the trails together much more quickly.

I am zero percent lawyer, but if enough evidence is found to issue warrants for bank accounts (here and abroad???), etc that should seal many a deal. All this damn money went somewhere.
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6:13a, 5/16/25
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Notes as to USAID spending to topple Hungary's government. Winning friends and influencing people.
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The head of Budapest's Office for the Protection of Sovereignty claimed that tens of millions of dollars from the United States and the European Union have funded left-leaning media institutions over the past three years, with the intent of overthrowing the conservative government of Viktor Orbn in Hungary.

Supposedly independent media outlets in Hungary have been propped up by money from the now-axed United States Agency for International Development (USAID), other State Department programmes, as well as from the European Commission, Tams Lnczi said this week.

The top man at the Office for the Protection of Sovereignty said that the globalist influence schemes were intended fund "propaganda" in the hopes of toppling the government of Prime Minister Viktor Orbn, one of the leading opponents of the neo-liberal open borders and socially far-left agendas favoured by elites in Brussels and Washington.
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The watchdog said the majority of the funding came from the European Commission, accounting for HUF 19.5 billion ($54 million) of the total. However, Lnczi said that USAID under the Biden administration directed HUF 3.5 billion ($9.7 million) to fund anti-Orbn media.
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Following this, Prime Minister Orbn ordered his government to take legal action against NGOs and other entities in Hungary that had received funding from foreign sources, including from USAID.

"Now is the moment when these international networks have to be taken down, they have to be swept away," Orbn said in February. "It is necessary to make their existence legally impossible."

"All money coming from America should be made public, and those who receive it should have sanctions enacted against them… You cannot accept money from abroad in order to influence Hungarian politics, and this will be legally enforced. Those involved will face legal consequences."

The leftist influence operations embarked upon by the U.S. government were not limited to Hungary. Indeed, the Trump administration's cuts to so-called foreign aid revealed that Britain's top LGBTQ+ charity, Stonewall, was also a substantial beneficiary of American taxpayer dollars.

According to The Times of London, the pro-transgenderism organisation had received over $600,000 from the State Department's Global Equality Fund scheme to promote "LGBTI rights around the world".
Of course Alex Soros has thoughts. More at the link.
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8:10a, 5/19/25
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Former USAID official pleads guilty to bribery.
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A former U.S. Agency for International Development official admitted in federal court this week that he accepted bribes from a Towson-based consultant and other contractors to steer agency decisions on $552.5 million's worth of government contracts.

Roderick Watson, who worked as a contracting officer for USAID, admitted to manipulating the federal agency's procurement process for over a dozen contracts while accepting a stream of bribes in a decade long conspiracy, according to court filings unsealed Wednesday.

Watson and Walter Barnes III, the founder of the Towson-based consulting firm that won many of those contracts, both pleaded guilty Monday in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt.

Barnes, 46, is the founder of Vistant, formerly known as PM Consulting Group. Court filings in his criminal case do not name the company involved in the case, though federal records say Barnes resigned as chairman and president of Vistant in 2023 after being suspended from contracting with USAID for procurement misconduct.
USAID was funding Democrat campaigns/media.
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In reply to nortex97 • 8:20a, 5/19/25
No Way! You mean millions of democrats arent donating $5 every day.
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9:34a, 5/19/25

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Hidalgo's only paid job before becoming County Judge seems to be as a program associate at USAID-funded Internews Network in Thailand supporting bloggers and artists.
Fun fact that both Obama's mom and Lina Hidalgo worked for USAID.

Imagine supporting bloggers and artist in Thailand, then your next job is running the 4th largest county in the US.
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In reply to Stat Monitor Repairman • 9:43a, 5/19/25
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Hidalgo's only paid job before becoming County Judge seems to be as a program associate at USAID-funded Internews Network in Thailand supporting bloggers and artists.
Fun fact that both Obama's mom and Lina Hidalgo worked for USAID.

Imagine supporting bloggers and artist in Thailand, then your next job is running the 4th largest county in the US.
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In reply to Stat Monitor Repairman • 9:44a, 5/19/25
Whatever happened with all that trouble Hidalgo was in?
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9:45a, 5/19/25
Still waiting on Rs to kill the funding
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In reply to samurai_science • 9:49a, 5/19/25
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samurai_science said:
Still waiting on Rs to kill the funding
I am fully in agreement, but per grok at least only 17% are still active.
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As of April 2025, approximately 17% of USAID grants and awards remain active, with 83% having been terminated. This is based on reports from March 2025 indicating that 83% of USAID programs, involving over 5,200 contracts and awards, were canceled following a review by the Trump administration. Out of more than 6,200 total awards, around 900 were listed as remaining active.[](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Agency_for_International_Development)[](https://www.kff.org/global-health-policy/issue-brief/analysis-of-usaids-active-and-terminated-awards-list-how-many-are-global-health/)
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4:36p, 5/19/25
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In reply to captkirk • 4:42p, 5/19/25
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You would think a massage parlor would do a comp or at least a discount for a politician.

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7:19a, 5/20/25
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Had to be extradited.
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In reply to nortex97 • 7:24a, 5/20/25
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I believe it's been covered, but add me to the list of folks who regularly track this page. Keep up the good work.
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In reply to nortex97 • 12:27p, 5/20/25
nortex97 said:
samurai_science said:
Still waiting on Rs to kill the funding
I am fully in agreement, but per grok at least only 17% are still active.
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As of April 2025, approximately 17% of USAID grants and awards remain active, with 83% having been terminated. This is based on reports from March 2025 indicating that 83% of USAID programs, involving over 5,200 contracts and awards, were canceled following a review by the Trump administration. Out of more than 6,200 total awards, around 900 were listed as remaining active.[](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Agency_for_International_Development)[](https://www.kff.org/global-health-policy/issue-brief/analysis-of-usaids-active-and-terminated-awards-list-how-many-are-global-health/)


Until the next Democratic administration
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12:44p, 5/20/25
I was just listening to this podcast.

Your Money Briefing

5/20/2025 3:01:00 AM
Economic Worries Curtail Summer Travel Plans
Summer travel plans are hitting some turbulence. Wall Street Journal reporter Rachel Ensign joins host Derricke Dennis to discuss how some families are scaling back or even cancelling their trips.

https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/your-money-matters/economic-worries-curtail-summer-travel-plans/F1D85C07-1946-4A19-8723-B56F7B479F33
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Derricke Dennis: And you talked to a few other people for your reporting who've had similar stories of being able to see some significant savings by changing their travel plans.

Rachel Ensign: Yeah. So, we spoke to one woman who is in this category of worker, whose livelihoods are really affected by these big changes under the Trump administration. She's a professor. She got a good amount of funding from USAID, which has obviously been dismantled. And she told me that the day she got the news, that her grants were being halted. One of her first thoughts was, "Oh, my gosh, I have to cancel my vacation," because she immediately went into cost saving mode. How do I protect my finances and my family's finances? And the first thing she thought was, there's this one thing that I could just not do and save $7,500. She did actually wind up booking a much more pared back version of the vacation, driving instead of flying, and just staying at a lower end rental home, too.

This is the level of grift happening. This Professor woman was getting grants from USAID and Trump canceled her funds, so she is now canceling her vacation.

Why would she cancel her personal vacation when her research money goes away? Only way is if she was diverting her research money to pay for her personal vacation!

All of this needs to be investigated.
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In reply to infinity ag • 1:20p, 5/20/25
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infinity ag said:
I was just listening to this podcast.

Your Money Briefing

5/20/2025 3:01:00 AM
Economic Worries Curtail Summer Travel Plans
Summer travel plans are hitting some turbulence. Wall Street Journal reporter Rachel Ensign joins host Derricke Dennis to discuss how some families are scaling back or even cancelling their trips.

https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/your-money-matters/economic-worries-curtail-summer-travel-plans/F1D85C07-1946-4A19-8723-B56F7B479F33
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Derricke Dennis: And you talked to a few other people for your reporting who've had similar stories of being able to see some significant savings by changing their travel plans.

Rachel Ensign: Yeah. So, we spoke to one woman who is in this category of worker, whose livelihoods are really affected by these big changes under the Trump administration. She's a professor. She got a good amount of funding from USAID, which has obviously been dismantled. And she told me that the day she got the news, that her grants were being halted. One of her first thoughts was, "Oh, my gosh, I have to cancel my vacation," because she immediately went into cost saving mode. How do I protect my finances and my family's finances? And the first thing she thought was, there's this one thing that I could just not do and save $7,500. She did actually wind up booking a much more pared back version of the vacation, driving instead of flying, and just staying at a lower end rental home, too.

This is the level of grift happening. This Professor woman was getting grants from USAID and Trump canceled her funds, so she is now canceling her vacation.

Why would she cancel her personal vacation when her research money goes away? Only way is if she was diverting her research money to pay for her personal vacation!

All of this needs to be investigated.

But but but.. it's for research! All the CMs fussed at us for celebrating the cuts because very important scientific research would be upended! Not professors' vacations.
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In reply to infinity ag • 2:52p, 5/20/25
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And she is so damn arrogant she snivels about it to the WSJ, which then obliviously/dutifully prints it as an economic/moral concern.

The media as a 'guardrail for the ruling class' is…not coming back.

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It is ... surprise, a foreign money launderer that got implicated by the Senate on a number of crimes, yet escaped any charges. The very same founder of Politico - Robert Allbriton.

Thanks to a request by @SophieMae1022 , I "followed the money" on NOTUS.

Today, President Trump roasted a NOTUS reporter:

"You should get a new job."

But ... what is NOTUS and who's pulling the strings behind it?

NOTUS is the newest mouthpiece in D.C.'s media echo chamber. Launched in January 2024, it's the official publication of the Allbritton Journalism Institute (AJI) a project bankrolled with a $20 million grant from none other than Robert Allbritton, the former owner of Politico.

According to AJI, their mission is to "restore journalism's role in our democracy." Translation: Reinstate the media as a guardrail for the ruling class as a tool to shape and police public discourse.

Politico, the crown jewel of Allbritton's media empire, spent years portraying Trump and populist movements as existential "threats to democracy." Now AJI and NOTUS are carrying that torch forward by training a new crop of "nonpartisan" journalists.
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4:53a, 5/21/25
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Still more than 10 times the humanitarian foreign aid of the next 10 countries combined, even after all of the cuts.

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- Even with the reforms we put in place and what we're suggesting in changes to our foreign aid, we still will provide more foreign aid, more humanitarian support than the next 10 countries combined

- China doesn't do humanitarian aid. China does predatory lending, they provide debt traps

- China has no zero record of doing humanitarian aid in the world

- The US State Department was captured, "The State Department had to change. It was no longer at the center of American foreign policy. It had often been replaced by the National Security Council or some other agency of government when in fact, we have these highly talented people -- that were being edged out."
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6:57a, 5/21/25
white guilt and white man's burden
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6:36a, 5/25/25
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So, we issued a new award in February this year to somehow help ISIS with their 'refugee camp' on the Syria-Iraq border. DoD, but the same general idea.

I can't be the only one thinking this isn't how I see $140K of our money should be spent. WTAF, Hegseth? There should be a damn public and full accounting moving forward of any money sent to terrorists, at the very least.

Separately, many more Soros tentacles in human trafficking, our money, and electioneering in the US.
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6:40a, 5/25/25
Can you imagine if in 2002 someone told you we'd be sending money to al qaeda? Unthinkable!
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In reply to ts5641 • 6:49a, 5/25/25
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ISIS, Hamas, Al Qaeda, HTS, and the Taliban all, over the past 10 years, if one broke out their finances in some sort of audit, would cite the US Government as their largest funding sources. $87 million a week to the Taliban!

And then my mind recalls pallets of cash Obama flew to the mullahs.



Sarah's timeline on X from early January has a lot of this. I wouldn't recommend anyone else read it and get pissed off like me this early on a Sunday.

Quite literally funding our own demise. And it's obviously supported on a bipartisan basis in DC.
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In reply to nortex97 • 7:07a, 5/25/25
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This funding was never meant to be seen by the public eye.
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7:49a, 5/26/25
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Totalitarian EU promises to replace USAID role in censorship/revolution engineering.

Pretty scary stuff:

Paging Marco Rubio:
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4:13p, 5/27/25
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In reply to oh no • 5:12p, 5/27/25
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oh no said:

Best argument yet for killing the program
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5:58p, 5/27/25
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Tucker has a fresh episode with Benz.

NGO/Blob terms are the focus (latter from Ben Rhodes) but it's all about what USAID did. 3 levels to the blob; state/defense-intelligence/usaid, merged together as one cohesive way to advance the interests of insiders, NGO's below that, funded by gov't but with longer reach (bribes/arms etc), and then the donor/grafter class.
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4:06a, 5/28/25
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Rubio: 12 cents on the dollar was going abroad.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio offered some shocking data points about American foreign aid spending before the Trump administration reformed the system.

During testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday, the top diplomat revealed that the White House discovered a foreign aid regime that was distracted and inefficient.

Only 12 cents of every dollar spent by USAID reached recipients.
"That means that in order for us to get aid to somebody, we had to spend all this other money supporting this foreign aid industrial complex," Rubio said, per a State Department transcript.
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6:02a, 5/28/25
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I mean it's pretty obvious by now that we pay for everything
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In reply to oh no • 6:32a, 5/28/25
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I was deployed to, fought, and witnessed first-hand the horrors of Somalia. I'm absolutely gobsmacked by this ungrateful ***** every time she utters something negative about the US. I'd love nothing more than to see some red-blooded, country girl just slap the piss out of that dirty hoor.
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10:37a, 5/28/25
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I may be alone, but Mike Benz is incredibly hard to follow and listen to.
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