While Many Freak Out About DOGE’s Spending Cuts to USAID and Other Entities, We Finally Have Some Scrutiny of Wasteful Programs

Liberals and progressives are freaking out because President Donald Trump has tasked Elon Musk with the goal, through the unofficial Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), of eliminating waste in government. Even seeing what our taxpayer dollars are being forced to fund, they are so far conditioned by the anti-Trump propaganda that they cannot fathom the possibility that federal spending has reached ridiculous levels, and that money is being spent on things that have absolutely nothing to do with the well-being of Americans. Their only response is to parrot the idea that our institutions are under threat and that an unelected billionaire has been given the power to gut programs that they hold dear. Despite the fact that when they were in power, they had no problem partnering with billionaires, such as George Soros, Mark Zuckerberg, and Bill Gates, in order to push agendas, censor information by bypassing the First Amendment, elect progressive district attorneys, influence progressive movements to shape the country’s landscape, and send massive profits to pharmaceutical corporations’ executives when they were attempting to force a drug into people’s arms just to be able to freely move and transact in society. Of course, when conservatives have a billionaire in an advisory role (not even a true position of power), this is suddenly a problem. Their hypocrisy triggers in them an instinct to call their opponents fascists and Nazis instead of being open-minded to the possibility that there is waste in government (last time I checked, fascism involves the centralization of power, not the reduction of the size of government), and in doing so, they are actually defending the corruption and fighting to preserve the status quo and not hold government officials and their billionaire buddies accountable.

Of course, people began to lose their minds when Musk started investigating the holy sacred Social Security Administration, but as the Trump administration announced that there would not be substantial cuts to the retirement supplemental income or the physical and mental disabilities insurance, ten local offices and forty-one jobs were cut from the program. Although this is really nothing to write home about, as there are more than 1,200 regional and field offices for Social Security, it does not stop those inflicted with Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) from throwing a temper tantrum about it and claiming that the sky is falling and that our institutions are crumbling around us. Fourteen liberal states have even filed lawsuits attempting to prevent DOGE from investigating fraud and waste and finding ways to decrease the power of the unelected bureaucracies that have plagued our country for years and usurped so much power that they act as a separate branch of government and independent of the decisions made by our elected politicians (liberals are fine with unelected bureaucrats making policies and preventing the elected officials from having control over the direction of our nation, of course).

DOGE had initially claimed to have found $55 billion in federal spending that could be cut right away, including diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs and climate contracts, though this figure has been disputed and argued to be overexaggerated. For example, a $1.4 million contract for the Department of Education to mail out surveys for participants of studies related to “research on college costs, student career paths and early childhood development” was almost completed, and as a result, there would be no actual savings. Therefore, many of the terminated contracts may cause DOGE’s waste estimates to be inflated, but regardless, eliminating some waste is certainly better than leaving it all in place.

One area of target for severe spending cuts is the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Although the Department of State (DoS), not USAID, funded the initially-reported $70,844 for a DEI musical event in Ireland, $25,000 for a transgender musical in Colombia, and $32,000 for the production of a gay comic book series in Peru (all wasteful spending within the DoS in general and equally disturbing); USAID did financially support a non-governmental organization (NGO) called Grupa Izadji (“COME OUT”) with $1.5 million to increase LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer or questioning) inclusion in the workplace in Serbia. Yes, of course, the missionary work of spreading the LGBTQ gospel to foreign lands and indoctrinating other countries to accept such lifestyles is a high-priority expenditure for Americans taxpayers. This is such a good use of our money, and the evil Trump administration is attempting to strip away these important and urgent tasks.

This is just one of roughly 5,800 grants and contracts under the USAID that Musk’s DOGE was tasked with ending to save money (DoS initially suspended 7,000 of its own foreign assistance grants and contracts, and it is now going to actually terminate 4,100 of them to save $4.4 billion), and this means that about 90% of all of USAID’s contracts will be terminated (this will amount to roughly $54 billion in savings). It is a wonder why we need so many funding expenditures overseas when Americans are struggling to get by domestically. Being a global empire, bullying the world, and operating aid programs in 100 countries requires money, I get it, but you might at least start to question how much is too much. Who is making money off of the corruption, and which of the politicians’ and bureaucrats’ buddies are profiting from getting their pet projects funded through an agency that is outside of the scrutiny of the public and the general elected assembly? Liberals and progressives may cry that the Trump administration will threaten disaster and poverty relief and food and medical programs that help the world’s poorest people, but clearly, they are ignorant to what USAID actually does (or, some of them may be involved in the corruption, and their flow of money is about to end). Of course, Democrats will fight tooth and nail to keep their status quo LGBTQ gospel-spreading activities in place, and as the legal battles start to take shape and employees are cut from the budget, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been tasked with heading the agency in the interim. President Trump has used his discretionary executive authority to freeze much of the agency and halt its operations temporarily until a review can take place (the president cannot permanently prevent congressionally-approved expenditures).

It is not just mental health programs for LGBTQ migrants fleeing Venezuela, sending food to hungry people in Sub Saharan Africa, or preserving the Brazilian Amazon that the agency funds (not everything that the agency does is necessarily bad, but perhaps the focus of American policy should benefit the taxpayers who are specifically funding the agency, and not citizens of other countries). USAID also sparks revolutions in countries with unfavorable regimes and attempts to counter the influence of Russia and China worldwide. Created under the Foreign Assistance Act and as part of an executive order in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy (if it was created via executive order, why can it not be eliminated by the same process?), USAID has sought out revolutions against governments that become too friendly with Russia or unfriendly to American politicians’ interests. Our liberal and progressive friends, of course, want to continue countering Russia as war hawks and move us closer to World War III, but those of us who are on the sane side of the debate would like to see a less interventionist approach to foreign policy.

How does USAID fund coups in other countries and attempt to steer them into the American-European sphere of influence? The primary method is to funnel money to NGOs, which then contribute to local organizations, spread anti-regime propaganda, and fund anti-government protesters. For example, USAID funded NGOs that went on to overthrow the established governments of Georgia in 2003-2004 (Rose Revolution), Ukraine in 2004-2005 (Orange Revolution), and Kyrgyzstan in 2005 (Tulip Revolution). These dubbed “color revolutions” helped to secure the Central Intelligence Agency’s objectives, and the agency has also partnered with the National Endowment for Democracy (NED is an NGO that has worked to topple governments in Croatia and Slovakia in the 1990s, for example).

Probably the most interesting example, though, is USAID’s second attempt to overthrow the democratically-elected president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych (the Orange Revolution being the first), this time under the Barack Obama administration. Just like George Soros’ International Renaissance Foundation and Open Society Foundation helped bring about a change in government in the early 2000s with the assistance of USAID, his foundations helped fund (to the tune of millions of dollars) and spark the Euromaidan protests in Ukraine in 2013-2014 (by his own admittance, his foundations “ensured that legal aid was made available throughout the crisis to civic activists, protesters, and journalists; supplied victims of violence with medical care; enabled civil society solidarity and organization; supported channels like Hromadske TV in independent, live reporting about events on the Maidan; and documented cases of torture, beatings, and police and courts abuse”). USAID reportedly gave $500,000 in 2012 and $7 million in 2013 to Center UA (a “civil society” group funded by Oleh Rybachuk, who was the former chief of staff of former President Viktor Yushchenko and linked to CIA-related coup operations from the Orange Revolution) and NGO Pact Inc. for the purposes of spreading propaganda and supporting protesters. When the Revolution of Dignity was finalized and Yanukovych was deposed in 2014, the Obama administration’s USAID and NED had successfully taken Ukraine out of its neutral position and into chaos, which then led to Russia intervening: from the Crimean annexation to the secession of Donetsk and Luhansk to the defending of the Donbass from the Ukrainian-American bombing campaign to the invasion of Ukraine outright under the Joe Biden administration.

However, using NGOs indirectly to stage coups against unfriendly regimes is not the only way that USAID gets around. In 2009 to 2012 (again under the Obama administration), the agency launched its own Twitter-style social media platform in Cuba under a $1.6 million funding project that was earmarked for aid to Pakistan (see how the government packages USAID as essential and benevolent, but in reality, it is doing nefarious work behind the scenes and masking these budgetary items). The purpose of the ZunZuneo platform was to infiltrate Cuban society (particularly targeting young people) and get citizens there to secretly circulate anti-government and pro-American propaganda without being tracked by the Fidel-Raul Castro regime (the platform was disguised as a legitimate business operating out of the British tax haven of the Cayman Islands). The hope of this direct USAID project was that eventually this would lead to a coup against the government, but of course, that did not end up happening.

USAID and all of the other departments and agencies that are in the process of getting haircuts are full of government waste and abuse, and anyone who cries that the United States is going to be weakened, lose its moral standing in the world, and become subject to authoritarian whims because of the slashing of the budget is just parroting pro-government propaganda. Overthrowing unfriendly regimes in countries that Americans usually cannot recognize on a map until after the headlines start pouring in is not in the best interest of our well-being, and we certainly can do without evangelizing around the world on behalf of the LGBTQ dogmatic movement. While the corporate media and liberal pundits focus on how much they hate President Trump and push the narrative that he is becoming a fascist dictator, unconstitutional spending that has been a problem for many years is finally being scrutinized, and the cognitive dissonance that many feel because of their support for these wasteful programs is beginning to show.

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