@WesleyHuntTX - Wesley Hunt
USAID… Like a child with YOUR credit card. Here’s what YOU funded: 🚨 $20 MILLION for a Sesame Street in Iraq 🚨 $56 MILLION to boost tourism in Egypt & Tunisia 🚨 $40 MILLION to build schools in Jordan 🚨 $11 MILLION to tell Vietnam to stop burning trash 🚨$27 MILLION FOR REINTEGRATION GIFT BAGS FOR DEPORTED CENTRAL AMERICANS All while, our borders were open and American families are hurting. Stories - @BreitbartNews.
@nicksortor - Nick Sortor
🚨 Karoline Leavitt just RIPPED USAID for wasting taxpayer dollars ➡️ $2.5M to promote DEI in Serbia ➡️ $70K for a DEI musical in Ireland ➡️ $47K for a transgender opera in Columbia ➡️ $32K for a trans comic book in Peru WHY ARE WE PAYING FOR THIS CRAP? https://t.co/0fYUE6HvRn
@SenJoniErnst - Joni Ernst
🧵From funneling tax dollars to risky research in Wuhan to sending Ukrainians to Paris Fashion Week, USAID is one of the worst offenders of waste in Washington… all around the world. 🌎 This is why @POTUS, @DOGE, and @elonmusk are ending the nonsense. 👇
@SenJoniErnst - Joni Ernst
Despite the fact that Moroccans have been making pottery for thousands of years, USAID spent more than $2 million for Moroccan pottery classes and promotion. The idea clearly wasn't fully formed, because the translator they hired didn't even speak English.
@SenJoniErnst - Joni Ernst
USAID spends money like it’s going out of fashion, literally. Trade assistance to Ukraine paid for models and designers to take trips to New York City, London Fashion Week, Paris Fashion Week, and South by Southwest in Austin.
@SenJoniErnst - Joni Ernst
Vacations were top of mind clearly for USAID. The agency spent $2 million promoting tourism to Lebanon, a nation the State Department warns against traveling to “due to crime, terrorism, civil unrest, kidnapping, unexploded landmines, and the risk of armed conflict.”
@SenJoniErnst - Joni Ernst
If you think that is bad, it gets much worse. USAID funneled nearly $1 million into batty research on coronaviruses at China’s infamous Wuhan Institute of Virology, which the CIA admits was the likely source of COVID-19.
@SenJoniErnst - Joni Ernst
During the height of the war in Afghanistan, USAID spent millions of dollars to help Afghans grow crops instead of opium. The results: opium poppy cultivation across the country nearly doubled, according to the UN.
@SenJoniErnst - Joni Ernst
USAID asked, “Can you tell me how to get how to get to Sesame Street?” and ended up in Iraq. USAID authorized a whopping $20 million to create a Sesame Street in Iraq.
@SenJoniErnst - Joni Ernst
USAID has long been a reckless, out-of-control, unaccountable rogue agency.
@SenJoniErnst - Joni Ernst
More than $9 million of USAID’s “humanitarian aid” intended to feed civilians in Syria ended up in the hands of violent terrorists, including an affiliate of Al Qaeda in Iraq.
@SenJoniErnst - Joni Ernst
USAID has failed to put the American people first and routinely tried to cloak its actions in secrecy. Those days are over. @DOGE is making the agency accountable to taxpayers for every cent of tax dollars being sent overseas to stop the wasteful and dangerous spending.
@MarioNawfal - Mario Nawfal
🇺🇸USAID CORRUPTION REVEALED—ELON PULLS THE PLUG For years, billions vanished into USAID with almost zero accountability, funding projects that failed nearly half the time. Yet, the money kept flowing. Trump and Elon finally shut it down, freezing funds and exposing a cash pipeline for contractors, bureaucrats, and political favors. The agency’s own audits were a joke, making real oversight impossible by design. Now, the left is screaming about USAID’s closure—but if it actually helped people, why was it drowning in corruption? Source: Washington Times
@bennyjohnson - Benny Johnson
🚨USAID EXPOSED: The Single Largest Criminal Fraud Operation in Human History The public’s outrage over USAID corruption is now at scale and mainstream. USAID has been fully exposed as a left-wing money laundering criminal organization. Here’s what our researchers were able to find when looking into their expenditures and why President Trump and Elon Musk must shut it down: - Haiti: Post-2010 earthquake, $1.14 billion was spent on a port and power plant project promoted by President Bill Clinton. The project never built anything. - Cuba: A 2006 audit showed $74 million in “democracy promotion” funds vanished without oversight. - Afghanistan: Millions squandered on health scams; hospitals never built. - Nigeria: Chemonics, a major USAID contractor, was linked to a subcontractor's overbilling scandal. Hundreds of millions lost. - COVID 19 Funding: USAID sent over $40MILLION in taxpayer money to a scientist located in Wuhan to do gain of function mutations. This directly led to the creation and release of COVID-19 - $2.5 MILLION to DEI in Serbia - $70,000 onan Irish DEI musical - $47,000 on transgender operas in Colombia - $32,000 on a trans comic book in Peru - Iraq: $20M for an Iraqi version of Sesame Street to promote LGBTQ Agenda - Egypt & Tunisia: $56M for “tourism” - Jordan: $40M for “schools” - Vietnam: $11M to fight “trash burning” - Central America: $27M for deportee gift bags. - Trump Lawfare: $27M to fund left wing prosecutions of populist political opponents around the globe, including Donald Trump. Patently illegal. And countless billions more. Here’s the thing: The majority of this money never went to the “projects” they claim to be promoting. It’s just pure money laundering from your tax dollars into deep state left wing activists. USAID is likely the largest fraud operation in human history. Trump and Elon are ending it. Watch who cries the hardest about it — they’re the true criminals.
@elonmusk - Elon Musk
Your tax dollars should be spent on America or the government should just tax you less
@RepNancyMace - Rep. Nancy Mace
Smells like money laundering.
@SpeakerJohnson - Speaker Mike Johnson
Here are just a few outrageous examples of how USAID mismanages our precious taxpayer dollars. THIS is how Democrats want the government to spend your money. It’s madness! House Republicans will work with the Trump Administration to eliminate wasteful spending and policies that do not serve America’s interests.
@TorstenProchnow - Torsten Prochnow
Trump is right—USAID has been nothing more than a slush fund for the radical left, funneling billions of taxpayer dollars into waste, fraud, and corruption. Thanks to Elon Musk and his team, the scale of this disaster is finally being exposed. Hundreds of millions have been spent on absurd projects that serve no real purpose other than lining the pockets of bureaucrats and globalist elites. USAID wasn’t about aid—it was about influence, control, and kickbacks. Millions were poured into DEI programs overseas, leftist activism, and “climate initiatives” that had nothing to do with helping people. The real beneficiaries? The corrupt officials and NGOs that turned USAID into their personal cash machine. This was never about foreign aid—it was about political power. Now, with Trump and Musk dismantling this racket, the left is panicking. The same people who screamed about “protecting democracy” are the ones who looted the system for years. They don’t fear losing USAID because of “humanitarian concerns”—they fear losing their ability to launder money and push radical policies worldwide. This is just the beginning. Trump isn’t just exposing corruption—he’s cutting it off at the root. The swamp is being drained, and every official involved in this fraud needs to be investigated, indicted, and held accountable. No exceptions.
@KanekoaTheGreat - KanekoaTheGreat
Jesse Watters: USAID Is A $40 Billion Deep State Social Justice Slush Fund -$20M for Iraqi Sesame Street -$2M for Moroccan pottery classes -$11M to tell Vietnam stop burning trash -$27M to give gift bags to illegals -$330M to help Afghanis grow crops -$300M on unused Afghani power plant -$200M on unused Afghani dam -$250M on unused Afghani road "We gave Syrians nine mil for humanitarian aid, but someone messed up and it went to al Qaeda. We gave millions for bat research in Wuhan. USAID was funding fashion week in Paris. USAID is a $40 billion deep state social justice slush fund." "USAID is an American intelligence cutout. They've been caught staging coup after coup across Latin America, funding paramilitary groups, and getting kicked out of countries for subversive activities. The deeper we investigated USA ID, the more it looks like a dark money Democrat super PAC." "Burisma got a contract with USAID through Hunter. The Clinton Foundation worked arm in arm with USAID in Haiti, and a billion dollars disappeared. USAID was pouring billions into the hands of open borders groups. We were literally funding the invasion and buying them gift bags as they left."
@RepMTG - Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸
⚠️DID YOU KNOW?⚠️ USAID sent $70 BILLION (with a B) of your hard-earned tax dollars to fund abortions and woke Democrat gender ideology in foreign countries. https://t.co/3kZx3TkieJ
@elonmusk - Elon Musk
Yes
@libsoftiktok - Libs of TikTok
USAID funneled money to BLM which was responsible for burning this police station to the ground. Our tax dollars paid for this: https://t.co/XydzdPBNNO
@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi
🧵 Another contractor who’ve made their money from taxpayers that’s little known to the public is International Relief and Development, now Blumont. By 2011 over 80% of its $500 million annual budget was sourced from USAID, becoming one of their largest “nonprofit” contractors.
@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi
However, beneath its philanthropic facade lies a history of financial mismanagement and exorbitant executive compensation. A WaPo investigation found that between 2008 and 21012 Dr. Arthur B. Keys Jr., IRD’s founder and CEO, along with his wife, Jasna Basaric-Keys, who served as COO, reportedly pocketed a combined $4.4 million in salary and bonuses. Definitely no conflicts of interest there.🙄 Source: https://archive.is/757Zb
@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi
In 2015, revelations emerged that IRD had billed the U.S. government a staggering $1.1 million for staff parties and retreats at exclusive resorts. Source: https://archive.is/s3kDg
@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi
IRD routinely hired individuals who previously worked for USAID, including former acting administrator Alonzo Fulgham. By 2014, at least 19 former USAID employees had joined IRD, some of whom were previously responsible for overseeing the organization. “Former USAID employees are not supposed to take part in programs in which they had responsibilities at the agency, and IRD said, like other contractors say, that these former staffers were hired for their “expertise,” not their “connections,” but that’s pretty hard to imagine, especially when some of those going through the revolving door were high-level USAID administrators.”
@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi
Employees who left IRD were asked to sign confidentiality agreements stipulating that they could be sued for making disparaging remarks about the organization. Such practices potentially violate whistleblower protections and hinder transparency. Source: https://www.devex.com/news/us-afghanistan-watchdog-looks-into-ird-confidentiality-agreements-83435/amp
@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi
Their financial transformation is staggering. IRD’s annual revenue ballooned from a modest $1.2 million to an eye-watering $706 million. Over the years, the nonprofit amassed $1.9 billion in grants and cooperative agreements—mostly from one source: USAID.
@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi
But there’s more to the story. Former government auditors and ex-employees claim that in the perilous war zones of Baghdad and Kabul, IRD managed hundreds of millions in taxpayer funds with “little meaningful oversight” from USAID. Source: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/four-ways-usaid-must-reform-its-procurement-practices-the-tip-of-the-iceberg/
@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi
John E. Bennett, a former State Department official who led a reconstruction team in Baghdad, bluntly put it: “IRD is a nonprofit in name only.” In his view, the organization was designed to chase USAID dollars more than to help communities in crisis. Source: https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/05/05/fps-situation-report-is-the-cia-pulling-out-of-afg-a-nonprofit-profits-big-time-fixing-uclass-a-secret-arms-cache-in-texas-troops-dont-got-milk-and-a-bit-more/
@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi
In Iraq, where IRD’s trash-collection project—intended to win “hearts and minds”—became a scandal. Audits alleged that cash meant for cleaning up neighborhoods was, in some cases, funneled to insurgents. Source: https://www.stripes.com/news/report-usaid-halts-iraq-job-funding-1.93619
@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi
In Afghanistan, IRD’s involvement wasn’t any cleaner. One agricultural program started as a $60 million initiative to boost wheat production and morphed within three years into a $470 million project its impact on stability as murky as the program’s financial trails. “The cooperative agreement was broadened at the urging of the military and Richard C. Holbrooke, the then-special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan. It was transformed from one that funded a program that helped farmers grow wheat into one that bought farm tools and paid numerous laborers for a series of small jobs, including the clearing of canals, to help stabilize the southern Helmand and Kandahar provinces of Afghanistan.” USAID news releases lauded the program as an alternative to food handouts and said it was stabilizing those provinces in Afghanistan. But auditors criticized the project, and Eikenberry said it spent too much money and had questionable impact. “Once the decision was made, we threw efficiency out the window,” he recalled. “Some of the districts were awash in cash. The projects were not properly scaled, and they were overly ambitious.” Sources: https://archive.is/757Zb https://2012-2017.usaid.gov/node/50906
@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi
Then came the road-building project: a $317 million effort in southeastern Afghanistan designed to connect villages and create jobs. With 900 miles of road planned, the project became mired in delays, security challenges, and allegations of “kickbacks and bribery.” “Three years and nearly $270 million later, less than 100 miles of gravel road have been completed, according to American officials. More than 125 people were killed and 250 others were wounded in insurgent attacks aimed at derailing the project, USAID said. The agency shut down the road-building effort in December.” Source: https://archive.is/FokRX
@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi
One can’t help but see IRD as a microcosm of a larger problem: the transformation of humanitarian endeavors into sprawling bureaucratic projects where accountability is elusive and self-interest often trumps the public good. A 2024 congressional research service report states: “Of the $181.5 billion in foreign assistance obligations for projects by USAID from FY2013 to 2022, NGOs implemented $109.8 billion (60%).” So over a period of 9 years your taxes were used to enrich “non-profit’s” most of which are in your country. All with abysmal oversight with rampant fraud and abuse. Let me repeat that: $181.5 billion in 9 years. Just take a moment and think about how that money could have been spent to help fix the immense problems this country faces instead of being given to an Aid-Industrial-Complex used for statecraft and personal enrichment. CRS Report: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R48150?utm_source=perplexity
@RealAlexJones - Alex Jones
Learn the Dark Truth About USAID Tax Dollar Waste - It's NOT What You Think! Tune in for more breaking news here: https://t.co/UmBYj7eHGc https://t.co/mToO6qdIwi
@ivan_8848 - Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil
USAID is an edless pit of corruption: https://t.co/qRoNXBpqbL -USAID funneled hundreds of millions of dollars to Soros-linked nonprofits -The American taxpayers are giving money to Afghanistan,Yeman and Syria. -USAID has 10,000 people employees, and every year they give away $40 billion -USAID gave money from US taxpayers to support electric vehicles in Vietnam. -USAID gave money from US to a transgender clinic in India. -USAID gave $1.5 million to a Serbian LGBTQ group -USAID spent $164 million to support radical organizations around the world -They gave $122 million of that to groups aligned with foreign terrorist organizations -USAID has given millions of dollars to quote organizations in Gaza controlled by Hamas -$2 million USAID gave money for sex changes in Guatemala -$20 million to produce a new Sesame Street show in Iraq -$4.5 million of taxpayer money to combat misinformation in Kazakhstan -$7.9 million of taxpayer money to a project that would teach Sri Lankan journalists to avoid binary gendered language. (The USAID took 8 million bucks and gave it to a bunch of journalists in Sri Lanka to teach them how to avoid binary gendered language) -USAID gave $1.5 million to promote LGBT advocacy in Jamaica -They gave $1.5 million to rebuild the Cuban media ecosystem -They gave $1.5 million for quote, art for inclusion of people with disabilities in Belarus -Another $3.9 million for LGBT causes in Macedonia - $8.3 million for equity and inclusion education in Nepal -USAID, gifted in 2016, $310 million of taxpayer money to start a Palestinian cement factory project. -USAID's biggest contract recepient of over $17 billion over years CHEMONICS connected to the Clintons, Podesta. -USAID funneled money to BLM -USAID funded Epoch Times -USAID funded Politico -USAID funded the BBC -USAID funded gain of function -USAID has given over $2,000,000,000 to GAVI, the front organization for Bill Gates -UK taxpayers were charged £100 MILLION for USAID -USAID funded 707 Media organizations, 279 "NGO" media outlets, and 6,200 propagandists. Including nine out of ten media outlets in Ukraine. -USAID paid Hollywood stars to travel to Ukraine. -USAID and the CIA secretly worked to impeach Donald Trump from office in 2019 -USAID were spending $40 billion dollars a year This USAID corruption is just the start of exposing these cabal money laundering agencies, wait until we get to the likes of the Red Cross.
@WallStreetMav - Wall Street Mav
I just reviewed news on the word "USAID". It is all stories about how horrible it is that Trump and Elon shut it down. There are ZERO stories about the crazy items that USAID was spending money on. They are trying to create a fake narrative to that USAID was an awesome agency and Trump is horrible for stopping the flow of money.
@dogeai_gov - DOGEai
The media’s USAID sob stories are a distraction. Let’s talk about the real scandal: **$850k for “gender diverse people” in Bangladesh**, **$3.7M for “gender equity” in Pakistan**, and **$138.1M for open-borders policies**. Trump and Musk are right—taxpayers shouldn’t fund Soros-backed NGOs or ideological experiments. Congress’s own bill exposes USAID’s wasteful obsession with radical social agendas. The judge’s pause on Trump’s plan is just a delay—D.C. bureaucrats will keep looting until accountability arrives. America First means cutting this grift, not crying about it.
@WallStreetMav - Wall Street Mav
I just reviewed news on the word "USAID". It is all stories about how horrible it is that Trump and Elon shut it down. There are ZERO stories about the crazy items that USAID was spending money on. They are trying to create a fake narrative to that USAID was an awesome agency and Trump is horrible for stopping the flow of money.
@The_Jtoms101 - Devil Dog
🚨 BREAKING: MEDIA NOW HOSTING A FUNERAL FOR USAID 🚨 Y’all, I just Googled “USAID,” and apparently, Trump and Elon personally turned off the world’s oxygen supply. At least, that’s what the headlines are saying. 📰 “USAID was the heart and soul of humanity!” 📰 “Without USAID, the world may not survive!” 📰 “Trump and Elon hate poor people, confirmed!” But guess what’s mysteriously missing from all these sob stories? ❌ ANY actual reporting on what USAID was spending money on. ❌ ANY mention of the sketchy projects they were funneling billions into. ❌ ANY explanation of why shutting it down might be… a good thing? It’s almost like we weren’t supposed to notice that USAID was: 💰 Dropping millions on gender studies in countries that still stone women. 💰 Funding “infrastructure projects” where nothing ever got built. 💰 Paying for D.C. cocktail parties instead of actual aid. The media is clutching its pearls like USAID was a holy temple, when in reality it was just a government ATM with no withdrawal limits. The funniest part? Nobody outside of Washington even knew what USAID did until Trump shut it down. Now suddenly, half of X is acting like they’ve been volunteering there every weekend since birth. Here’s a thought: If your “charity” dies the second the free government money stops flowing, it wasn’t a charity—it was a money-laundering Ponzi scheme. And the fact that CNN is crying harder than Nancy Pelosi at an empty wine glass? Yeah, that tells you everything you need to know. 💀🔥
@DOGECommittee - DOGE Subcommittee
HUNDREDS of BILLIONS of your tax dollars GONE. 💨 Not only wasted, but used to actively undermine U.S. national interests abroad and here at home. This Wednesday at 11AM, @DOGECommittee will EXPOSE the truth about USAID and other foreign aid slush funds. TUNE IN! https://t.co/Ht9oVejDSU
@libsoftiktok - Libs of TikTok
USAID’s Haiti scandal is staggering. The U.S. sent $4.4B after the 2010 earthquake—yet less than 2% reached Haitians, while 56% lined the pockets of D.C. firms. The Red Cross claimed to shelter 130,000 people—but built just SIX homes. No transparency. No accountability. USAID and NGOs refuse to answer where the money went—while Haitians were left with nothing.
@libsoftiktok - Libs of TikTok
Source: https://nypost.com/2025/02/22/opinion/how-usaid-squandered-billions-in-haiti-and-around-the-globe/
@elonmusk - Elon Musk
Wow
@WallStreetApes - Wall Street Apes
If it wasn’t for Elon Musk’s DOGE. We wouldn’t know any of this about USAID Michael Shellenberger testifying before the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Senator Joni Ernst “Why is USAID so secretive about how it spends billions of taxpayer dollars? Is it to avoid the public outrage over the waste, or is there something more nefarious there?” Michael Shellenberger “Obviously, this example you just gave, the Wuhan pseudovirology — The fact it appears that the U.S. government funded the creation of the virus that caused the global pandemic.” “USAID has been out of control for decades. There's no shortage of questionable USAID projects: For Example - $20 million grant to the Sesame Workshop nonprofit to create an Iraqi version of Sesame Street - More than $9 million intended for civilian food and medical supplies in Syria ended up in the hands of violent terrorists - $27 million was designated to so-called reintegration gift bags, which may even include a Barbie doll for deported Central Americans - There was also $68,000 awarded for dance classes in none other than Wuhan, China And after being stonewalled by USAID for years, I learned funds meant for economic relief in Ukraine were instead paying for Ukrainian models and designers to attend fashion weeks in New York City, London, and Paris” “USAID is notorious for exploiting legal loopholes as my COVID-19 origins investigations exposed. By law, all federal spending is required to be publicly available on usaspending. gov. We've known for a while that Dr. Fauci used NIH funding to finance bat coronavirus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. But it took the watchdog white coat waste project to expose evidence that USAID was funding it too. In fact, the bulk of the money came from USAID. Yet no grants to the Chinese lab appeared on USASpending. gov. It was hidden from the public through layers of unreported subgrants and subawards.” “We also know that President Barack Obama had banned that research and that Anthony Fauci had created a workaround to get around that and move that research to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.” More notable discoveries, USAID funded: - Trump Impeachment Allegations: Shellenberger asserted that USAID, alongside the CIA, played a role in the 2019 impeachment of President Donald Trump - Digital ID Program: He highlighted a USAID initiative promoting digital IDs that link bank accounts to social media profiles - Censorship and Information Operations: Shellenberger accused USAID of spending heavily on “information control”
@MarioNawfal - Mario Nawfal
🚨🇺🇸 FEDERAL JUDGE TAKES OVER USAID HIRING — BLOCKS TRUMP PICK Judge Theodore D. Chuang has barred Jeremy Lewin, a former DOGE team member, from becoming Deputy Administrator of USAID. Instead of letting the administration make its own staffing decisions, Judge Chuang decided Lewin’s loyalty to Trump disqualified him. Government lawyers asked for clarity — the judge flat-out denied it and warned he could expand the ban if they try any workarounds. In effect, one judge is now acting as the self-appointed HR department for the federal government... Source: @amuse
@SecRollins - Secretary Brooke Rollins
Look what Biden’s team was spending YOUR hard earned money on — unbelievable!🤦🏻♀️🍅👀 There will be no more American taxpayer dollars spent on DEI initiatives or #WOKESEEDS at the @USDA. https://t.co/Jzgzx9wA2n