“Foreign” Indeed: Corruption and Ideology Rule the World’s Biggest Aid Agency

The European Conservative
February 9, 2025

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.”

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