Perhaps the most scandalous government waste uncovered by Elon Musk’s controversial DOGE so far is in the US$80-billion-per-year U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), writes Rod Dreher in The European Conservative. USAID’s ideologically biased, morally corrupt antics range from funding transgender surgeries in Guatemala to undercutting conservative democracies in Europe to subsidizing left-wing media outlets within the U.S. What Musk and Trump are aiming at, writes Dreher, is nothing less than “gutting the globalist hydra by cutting off its lifeblood: U.S. government funding.”
“Papers, please!” Real Borders Make a Comeback in the EU
The 1985 “Schengen” agreement was hailed as the gateway to an eternal utopia of open borders throughout a Europe of 29 countries and 450 million people. Noting the rising number of countries defying EU regulations and restoring national border controls, Lauren Smith in The European Conservative wonders whether the whole Schengen experiment is unravelling under the stresses of uncontrolled illegal migration, crime and social decay.
