Where Do The Dollars Go? Here’s One Major Way USAID Spends Money
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Where Do The Dollars Go? Here’s One Major Way USAID Spends Money

USAID failed to see how billions for ideologically driven initiatives does nothing to boost U.S. influence

Elyssa Koren

In the midst of swirling controversy over a potential U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) shutdown, White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt exposed some of the agency’s “insane priorities,” ranging from $1.5 million to advance DEI in Serbia, $70,000 for a DEI musical in Ireland, $47,000 for a “transgender opera” in Colombia, and $32,000 for a “transgender comic book” in Peru. It’s clearly time for a reckoning.

Putting an end to this kind of egregious waste of American taxpayer funds would not only benefit America, it also would be a tremendous boon for the recipient countries that have long suffered ideological coercion under the guise of U.S. foreign assistance.

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