As increased exposure facilitated the GOP smackdown of waste in the federal government, an establishment-tied USAID employee detailed efforts to conceal “incriminating” materials.
(Video: ABC News)
At once arguing the money spent by the U.S. Agency for International Development was vital but also a paltry sum of little concern, leftist lawmakers had little recourse but to seethe and cope as the Department of Government Efficiency shone a little on the obscene waste of American taxpayer dollars.
While House Republicans circulated a memo that included the numerous gender ideology and DEI-focused splurges abroad, speechwriter Kristina Drye spoke with ABC News about the scene at USAID when DOGE employees had arrived to root out the truth.
“DOGE was in the building. We started — we took down our Pride flags, we took down — I took out any books I felt would be incriminating,” she explained. “No one was talking. We heard they started taking transcripts automatically of all of our Google Meets. They unplugged the news in the little kitchen galleys. It didn’t feel good.”
“And then Saturday, all of the websites went down. And then I lost complete access to my computer,” furthered Drye, behaving as though she had ownership of the government property.
While ABC News referred to her as a contractor, the description didn’t fully detail the import of her role as speechwriter for Samantha Power, administrator of USAID throughout the Biden administration, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations during the Obama Administration and spouse of “Nudge” author, Cass Sunstein.
At the same time she was lamenting about attempts to conceal the ideologies that were evidently central to what USAID employees were working on, Florida Rep. Brian Mast (R) had begun circulating a memo via the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, encouraging colleagues to share key talking points on how President Donald Trump’s handling of foreign aid was “already paying dividends.”
Obtained by Fox News, the memo described how, “What we found was the State Department and USAID had completely lost sight of their mission.”
“For decades, U.S. foreign assistance has been an important extension of American influence and power on the global stage. One would expect the State Department and USAID to ensure that these programs promote policies, values, and objectives consistent with the national security interests of the United States and widely held American values,” noted the memo. “It would also be reasonable to expect the agencies to maintain meticulous and transparent records of all such programs, because awards, as federal expenditures, are subject to congressional oversight. However, the Biden State Department and USAID failed on both counts.”
“America is spending $40 billion in foreign aid annually. Much of those aid dollars are not even reaching the intended recipients and are instead propping up an NGO industrial complex that has, for years, swindled the American taxpayer,” decried the memo that referred to activities during the previous administration as having been “opaque and antiquated.”
Regarding the focused freeze on foreign aid implemented by Trump, Republican lawmakers were urged to expressed how it was “needed because it’s nearly impossible to evaluate foreign aid programs when they are on autopilot.”
“A 90-day review period, with commonsense waivers for truly life-threatening situations, is the only way to give the State Department the time needed to root out waste,” the message continued.
Among the highlights of waste that saw U.S. taxpayer dollars getting sent overseas for rainbow initiatives and to prop up the climate agenda, the memo detailed, “$39,652 to host seminars at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on gender identity and racial equality through the State Department,” as well as, “14 million in cash vouchers for migrants at the southern border through the State Department,” and, “$425,622 to help Indonesian coffee companies become more climate and gender friendly through USAID.”
It also made note of “446,700 to promote the expansion of atheism in Nepal through the State Department” and “16,500 to foster a ‘united and equal queer-feminist discourse in Albanian society’ through the state department.”
Reactions to Drye’s story were less than sympathetic to her supposed plight.
So when doge arrived you started hiding all sorts of stuff and now you expect the American people to believe you are part of a legitimate office and feel sorry for NO you are guilty you should have told the American people about the waste and abuse of our money
— Nolver (@NOlvertx) February 4, 2025
Sounds like a great thing these employees no longer have computer access. They’ve been supporting fraud and corruption for years. The very fact they had pride flags in a federal building is very telling. As for books that “could be incriminating,” that’s very telling also. So…
— Lee Hinton (@lee_littlebugs1) February 4, 2025
Isn’t it interesting that this woman thinks she is a hero for hiding what her tax payer funded agency was doing from the President of the United State’s advisor tasked with auditing her books?
She works for us
— Atom Bomb (@atom_jarvis) February 4, 2025
That’s right, the gig is up, the freak show wokeathon is OVER!!
— QuimbusFlestrin (@FlestrinQuimbus) February 5, 2025
They admit to inappropriate behavior bc they really do think they are in the side righteousness ? The irony of demos thinking they are angels?
— Falcon (@MAJFalconMD) February 4, 2025
They need to be fired. No more radical woke inside.
— Lyfraft (@lyfraft) February 4, 2025
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