The Trump administration is set to completely gut the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) after it was revealed to be a massive money laundering conduit and slush fund for corrupt Democrats and their friends.
In one of the boldest moves by a president in recent memory, President Donald J. Trump and his team will reportedly cut USAID to the bone, ousting all but a few hundred of the more than 10,000 employees drawing taxpayer-funded salaries at the agency worldwide, a move that will send leftists into a nuclear meltdown if true.
The workforce reduction was reported by multiple media outlets including the New York Times which cited the usual anonymous sources. The cuts to USAID, which Trump has put under the control of the State Department, will only leave about 290 employees with jobs.
“The Trump administration will reduce the number of workers at the U.S. Agency for International Development from more than 10,000 to about 290 positions, three people with knowledge of the plans said on Thursday,” the Times reported.
Breaking News: Nearly all of the 10,000 workers at USAID, the U.S. global aid agency, will be put on leave by the week’s end, an official memo said. https://t.co/09zrsJn9KB
— The New York Times (@nytimes) February 5, 2025
“On Friday, February 7, 2025, at 11:59 pm (EST) all USAID direct hire personnel will be placed on administrative leave globally, with the exception of designated personnel responsible for mission-critical functions, core leadership and specially designated programs. Essential personnel expected to continue working will be informed by Agency leadership by Thursday, February 6, at 3:00pm (EST),” read a message posted to the USAID website which is back up after being temporarily offline earlier this week.
Much of the abuse of taxpayer money was uncovered by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) which was created by Trump and is helmed by billionaire Tesla/SpaceX CEO and X owner Elon Musk who has been tasked with eliminating government waste and in the process of turning over rocks, has already discovered what has the appearances of being one of the biggest political scandals in U.S. history at USAID.
USAID’s shockingly wasteful spending on far-left projects included millions to promote radical gender ideology across the globe with but a few examples being funding for a “transgender opera” in Colombia, a “transgender comic book” in Peru, $2 million for sex changes and “LGBT activism” in Guatemala and $7.9 million to combat “binary-gender language” in Sri Lanka.
They’re an arm of the radical-left globalists https://t.co/tI0QJW1qP1
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 4, 2025
But more disturbingly were payments to numerous media organizations including Politico which has spent years churning out stories smearing Trump and conservatives, promoting misinformation about Hunter Biden’s laptop and first reported the leaked Supreme Court draft that foretold the overturning of Roe v. Wade, with its stories being used by the entire national media as the basis for their own reporting.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 6, 2025
“LOOKS LIKE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS HAVE BEEN STOLLEN(sp) AT USAID, AND OTHER AGENCIES, MUCH OF IT GOING TO THE FAKE NEWS MEDIA AS A “PAYOFF” FOR CREATING GOOD STORIES ABOUT THE DEMOCRATS. THE LEFT WING “RAG,” KNOWN AS “POLITICO,” SEEMS TO HAVE RECEIVED $8,000,000. Did the New York Times receive money??? Who else did??? THIS COULD BE THE BIGGEST SCANDAL OF THEM ALL, PERHAPS THE BIGGEST IN HISTORY! THE DEMOCRATS CAN’T HIDE FROM THIS ONE. TOO BIG, TOO DIRTY!” Trump wrote in a Thursday post to Truth Social.
One Republican lawmaker, Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) also stated that USAID has even been directing money to “causes” supported by global meddler George Soros, one billionaire that will never be criticized by Democrats who are screeching about Musk.
BREAKING: It appears now USAID routed funds to Soros-aligned causes.
— Eric Schmitt (@Eric_Schmitt) February 7, 2025
“BREAKING: It appears now USAID routed funds to Soros-aligned causes,” the senator wrote in a post to X, offering no additional details.
“For decades, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has been unaccountable to taxpayers as it funnels massive sums of money to the ridiculous — and, in many cases, malicious — pet projects of entrenched bureaucrats, with next-to-no oversight,” the White House said on Monday.
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