President Donald Trump has flagged nearly US$ 200 million in questionable spending by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which Elon Musk and his team have put in their crosshairs for cutting alleged waste and abuse.
Among the most stunning revelations from a White House list of questionable spending was nearly US$ 10 million USAID spent on meals that went to al Qaeda-funded terrorist groups.
Then there was the roughly US$ 75 million USAID spent on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in foreign countries.
Some of those recipients of taxpayer dollars included:
- US$ 16.8 million to support equitable outcomes in inclusion in Vietnam.
- US$ 8.3 million for "equity and inclusion" education.
- US$ 7.9 million to teach Sri Lankan journalists to avoid "binary-gender language."
- US$ 6.3 million to study men having sex with other men in South Africa.
- US$ 6 million to advance LGBTQ principles in "priority countries around the world."
- US$ 5.5 million to promote LGBTQ causes in Uganda.
- US$ 3.9 million to promote LGBTQ causes in Western Balkans.
- US$ 2.5 million to promote inclusion in Vietnam.
- US$ 2 million for sex changes and LBGTQ "activism" and sex changes in Guatemala.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt called out the USAID for spending taxpayer dollars on "crap."
She said Democrats who are protesting the administration’s plan to fold USAID into the State Department should be focused on making sure Americans benefit when Uncle Sam doles out their tax dollars.