Trump Shutting Down USAID

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Came across this one digging for something else this am. (From 2021) "State department sees 'nostalgia for Soviet times in parts of the population fed by Russian disinformation.'"


The whole thread is fairly comical. If I had access to the laughing emoji still I'd have used that one for this.
nortex97
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Less funny.

Abolish USAID.
will25u
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Not usaid but didn't want to start new thread.

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Yep.

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USAID was funding BOTH the WUHAN Lab gain-of-function research & SMARTMATIC Election Systems.

Do you think it was a coincidence that "covid" came out right around the 2020 election?

Coincidentally, the same left-wing billionaires, NGOs, and USAID also funded the 'NO KINGS' protest, aka, the color revolutions across America.

This means that USAID was simultaneously funding BOTH the election-rigging technology that would steal the 2020 election WHILE manufacturing and releasing a WEAPONIZED VIRUS that would distract the world from the theft of said election while depopulating the planet at the same time. It's all connected.

Everything is out in the open and face-up on the table... I don't even know what to say anymore. You can't be this naive anymore. We can't live under this fraud and tyranny anymore.

Americans are suffering, and everyone else is robbing you blind getting filthy rich.

Fact check, all true. From the replies:
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Interesting this thread started 11 months ago and it's titled "Trump shutting down USAID".

Well?
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Rocky Rider said:

Interesting this thread started 11 months ago and it's titled "Trump shutting down USAID".

Well?

The left cannot kill the Spirit of Charlie Kirk.
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nortex97 said:

Less funny.

Abolish USAID.
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USAID-alumnus Morgan Ortegus I think has been fired but just another Pompeo-special still schlepping around DC/NY who should have no role working for the American people.

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Brussels is panickingand for once, the reason has nothing to do with Russian tanks or climate deadlines. The real crisis is informational. It is an open secret how Europe's so-called "civil society" has long depended on American money, much of it routed through USAID-linked programs, foundations, and transatlantic NGO networks. That money built careers, offices, media platforms, and a permanent activist bureaucracy whose main function was to police politics and impose Berkeley-style liberalism across the continent. It all changed after President Trump and Secretary Rubio all but abolished USAID, closing down an estimated 83 per cent of its projectsmany of them ideological, and indeed subversive, in nature. With Washington pulling back, the EU is scrambling to replace the cash for Europe's USAID widows.

https://brusselssignal.eu/2026/01/how-brussels-is-moving-to-bailout-europes-left-wing-ngo-industry/
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"African Development Foundation" shockingly was engaged in embezzlement/theft.

And yes, oh by the way, the Somali scams were also often tied to USAID funding, despite 'community notes.'

From a 12/17 DR post:
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The USAID money going to sub-Saharan Africa was about 13 billion dollars annually.

What people miss was that much of that money was contracted out to the great foundations. That is well within the capability of these same great foundations who partner with USAID to carry out these exact same operations alleged to save lives (CHAI, Gates Foundation, etc). Their endowments are enormous, they have all the agreements in place, they have the employees and means to scale up and take over PEPFAR in Africa.

PEPFAR, fwiw, is an initiative by W, to stop AIDS/HIV transmission in Africa, into which we have dumped over $120 billion (probably closer to $150 Billion).
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Of the money Power Forward Communities received from the Biden EPA by the end of last year, "more than half went to Abrams's Rewiring America. Power Forward Communities reported that the grant funding was its sole source of revenue last year, indicating that it acted as a pass-through established to distribute taxpayer funds primarily to Rewiring America but under a different name. It disbursed the funding to Rewiring America as Abrams served as its senior counsel and senior adviser, a role she held between March 2023 and early 2025."

I proudly cancelled this grant in March, citing the rampant self-dealing, conflicts of interest, unqualified recipients, and reduced government oversight. The Trump EPA refuses to light taxpayer dollars on fire, which is exactly what the Biden Administration enthusiastically did. The days of these absurd green slush funds are OVER!

Federal grants are not my bailiwick but unless Abrams was giving kickbacks to obtain those grants what else can she be charged with here? Lying on the grant application? Are those under oath or something?

I guess maybe the old Mueller Two Step of defrauding the U.S.?
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Any requests for payment under those grants will come with a legal attestation. That may allow her to pin it on whoever signed those payment applications.

On the federally funded programs we work for all include pretty extensive clawback provisions. For our work, the gubmit could visit one of our projects and decide we didnt use the right nail on the roof. We would then owe the program back what we were paid for the roof and what it cost the program to get another contractor to reroof.

And this actually happened to one of our competitors.

Tl;dr the folks from these programs better have had good lawyers write up their LLCs that were part of the scamming; and we should freeze their bank accounts until they can prove their innocence.
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flown-the-coop said:

Any requests for payment under those grants will come with a legal attestation. That may allow her to pin it on whoever signed those payment applications.

On the federally funded programs we work for all include pretty extensive clawback provisions. For our work, the gubmit could visit one of our projects and decide we didnt use the right nail on the roof. We would then owe the program back what we were paid for the roof and what it cost the program to get another contractor to reroof.

And this actually happened to one of our competitors.

Tl;dr the folks from these programs better have had good lawyers write up their LLCs that were part of the scamming; and we should freeze their bank accounts until they can prove their innocence.

Thank you for that clarification. Wasn't sure about how grants work.
nortex97
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Democrat-Communist fake-moderates are suddenly low on cash this cycle.

USAID-related, for sure. The laundering machine, as it were:
nortex97
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What's the wildest USAID grift/money laundering/war mongering/election rigging/animal killing story one is aware of? Perhaps this is in my top 5.
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'Collective action' should not be funded in the US by USAID or any other US Gov't grants.
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Gen. Flynn coming in hot yesterday:
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USAID is a crime Scene:

USAID was (is) a crime spree and everyone involved knows it. There were crimes committed on behalf of some in the USG going back decades. Until people are held accountable, all funding globally must end.

Those responsible should NOT be fired, they should have clearances suspended or revoked, they should be sent home with no pay and fully investigated (this is for the USG employees). For those contracted personnel and companies, they should be thoroughly investigated, all should be immediately suspended from any government work (make sure they didn't change their names), investigated and if guilty of fraud or misuse of USG funds (U.S. taxpayer dollars), they should all be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

War or no war. The justice department budget is close to $30B (yes, that's a B!). Until people are held accountable for these deep state crimes, the frustration levels will rise.

People must go to jail over this subversion of our good faith efforts the American people expected but did not receive. Instead we got RIPPED OFF!!!

Enough is enough!
@realDonaldTrump
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@AGPamBondi ?
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@BarackObama you knew!
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So when is anyone gonna get arrested then?
Ag87H2O
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BQ_90 said:

So when is anyone gonna get arrested then?
When we get a better AG. Bondi has been a massive disappointment.
LOYAL AG
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nortex97 said:

"African Development Foundation" shockingly was engaged in embezzlement/theft.

And yes, oh by the way, the Somali scams were also often tied to USAID funding, despite 'community notes.'

From a 12/17 DR post:
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The USAID money going to sub-Saharan Africa was about 13 billion dollars annually.

What people miss was that much of that money was contracted out to the great foundations. That is well within the capability of these same great foundations who partner with USAID to carry out these exact same operations alleged to save lives (CHAI, Gates Foundation, etc). Their endowments are enormous, they have all the agreements in place, they have the employees and means to scale up and take over PEPFAR in Africa.

PEPFAR, fwiw, is an initiative by W, to stop AIDS/HIV transmission in Africa, into which we have dumped over $120 billion (probably closer to $150 Billion).


#4 on that list is everyone's favorite Minnesota Daycare. Quality Learning Center. They managed to spell it right on the political donations list.
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One cannot possibly hold the fake news legacy media with enough contempt.
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How in the F are we still sending money to the Taliban? Bunch of do nothing people in DC. Every single one of them.
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Hoyt Ag said:

How in the F are we still sending money to the Taliban? Bunch of do nothing people in DC. Every single one of them.


Oh they are certainly busy. Busy enriching themselves via kickback schemes and other fraud. The NGOs with their congressional partners burn the midnight oil moving money from our pockets to theirs.
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Hoyt Ag said:

How in the F are we still sending money to the Taliban? Bunch of do nothing people in DC. Every single one of them.

26 GOP senators voted against codifying DOGE USAID cuts. The Administration has tried to cut back on it but the appropriators, for reasons I think we all might mostly agree on, have insisted on continuing much of it.

Much of this funding went to State after USAID was at least for the time being shuttered.

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Rocky Rider said:

Hoyt Ag said:

How in the F are we still sending money to the Taliban? Bunch of do nothing people in DC. Every single one of them.


Oh they are certainly busy. Busy enriching themselves via kickback schemes and other fraud. The NGOs with their congressional partners burn the midnight oil moving money from our pockets to theirs.

Exactly. Same deal with many government contracts. Not just USAID. It's all about getting campaign money back to the congressmen; and you can imagine all the other fraud and schemes.
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Baffled as to why Rubio hasn't stopped the Taliban funding since it's coming out of his office. The only obvious reason we are doing this is that we are bribing them to leave us alone.

Bad Rubio.
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"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution."

- Abraham Lincoln
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I said it from day one.

**** Ukraine. **** the democrats.
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Yeah, color me effing shocked.

And the latest whine is that we are prioritizing 'essential' stuff to the middle east vs. them.
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Ukraine is in the middle of a war with Russia.
Why would they want to consider "clean" energy grants.

Just more evidence that the "clean energy" scam was a bogus money grab and theft of taxpayer money from the start.
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Ukraine has been a money-laundering operation for Democrats/Bidens primarily since at least Victoria Nuland's 'color revolution' there.
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USAID involved in routing the money, memo alleges

The declassified report is a summary of raw intercepts from U.S. spy agencies in late 2022 concerning the alleged plot, and officials who have reviewed the files said there seemed to be a lack of curiosity to investigate such an explosive allegation of foreign interference in a U.S. election.

"The Ukrainian Government and unspecified U.S. Government personnel, through USAID in Kyiv, reportedly developed a plan that would provide hundreds of millions of US taxpayer dollars to fund an infrastructure project for Ukraine that would be used as a cover to send approximately 90% of funds allocated to the DNC to fund Joe Biden's reelection campaign," the declassified summary of the intercepts stated.

"They were confident the project would be funded initially, even though at some time in the future the project would be disapproved as unnecessary. At this time, the money would already be allocated and impossible to return or use for a different purpose," the report added.

The intercepts mentioned two American subcontractors as possible recipients of the money that would eventually be moved to Democratic coffers, officials said. The names are included in still classified raw spy data but were redacted from the declassified report obtained by Just the News.

"The plan included details of how subcontractors would be funded through U.S. companies so that how the funds were spent and allocated would be difficult to track," the declassified summary stated. "Additionally, contracts would be executed that would be difficult to verify. In this manner, most of the U.S. funding would be diverted to Joe Biden's election campaign without the ability to track where exactly the funds came from."

More at the Just The News link. USAID/USIP were principle tools for DNC graft, and the massive 'green new deal' just expanded the operation's reach using the war as cover. Remember, VP Biden was the Obama administration's chief envoy to Ukraine, and always treated it like his personal fiefdom, before he became demented peepaw.
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The public humiliation of Poroshenko illustrated the unusually aggressive approach
employed by Biden, the Obama administration's chief Ukraine envoy, to bring the
distant but strategically important former Soviet republic closer to the West.

(Note, there was never anything 'strategically important' about that corrupt cesspool to the American people.)

This particular scheme 'only' involved hundreds of millions of dollars, and is likely just a small fraction of the total USAID funding (via over 100 programs) that was skimmed by the Democrats/Biden crime familia in Ukraine. Note some of the connections:
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The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), long the primary spigot for American funding in Ukraine, has abruptly shut down the majority of its programs in the country, exposing a labyrinth of alleged corruption, money laundering and political favoritism that funneled billions back to Washington-linked entities. According to data reviewed by RT and confirmed by NBC News, over 100 USAID initiatives in Ukraine once earmarked as part of a $825 million effort to shore up Ukraine's power grid a lifeline for both civilians and military operations. Its termination, according to a USAID official who spoke to NBC on condition of anonymity, "significantly undercuts this administration's ability to negotiate a ceasefire" and "signals to Russia that we don't care about Ukraine or our past investments."
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The money laundering nexus: How USAID funds circulated back to Washington
Vasilyev's assertion that USAID served as a "black fund" for American nonprofits aligns with a pattern of financial obfuscation that spans decades. The agency, founded in 1961 as a Cold War tool to counter Soviet influence, has long operated with minimal oversight, its budgets shielded by bipartisan support for "democracy promotion" abroad. Yet as Trump's audit revealed, USAID's grants often flowed to organizations with tenuous connections to their stated missions and strong ties to U.S. political operatives.

A 2023 investigation by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that nearly 40 percent of USAID's Ukraine funding was awarded to NGOs with board members or executives who had previously worked for the Democratic National Committee (DNC) or affiliated PACs. Among the recipients:

  • The National Democratic Institute (NDI) received $85 million for "anti-corruption initiatives." Critics argue the funds were used to undermine Zelensky's political rivals.
  • The Atlantic Council, a think tank with deep ties to the Pentagon and NATO, which was granted $60 million for "strategic communications" a euphemism, detractors say, for pro-Western propaganda.
"The system was designed to recycle money," Vasilyev explained. "USAID would disburse funds to a Ukrainian NGO, which would then subcontract an American firm often linked to the same political networks to 'implement' the project. The cash would circle back to D.C., minus a cut for the middlemen in Kyiv."

More at the link. With the utterly corrupt Biden familia at the helm, the war was a perfect opportunity to quite literally explode the circular cash pipeline via USAID-Ukraine. Thank goodness Rubio seems to have cut that off last year, and I'd note the desperate cash position of the DNC (and their outside groups) this year which is likely...not a coincidence.
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I'm sure that's also related to how the Vindmans became central players.
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Expose his wife/joint custody USAID/Soros funds. He should get the DOGE financial treatment.

ETA: another State Department program that sure sounds like it should be gutted;

And it was an utter mistake to take Pocohantas' advice and nationalize student loans.
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nortex97 said:


Expose his wife/joint custody USAID/Soros funds. He should get the DOGE financial treatment.

He is dirty as hell. No wonder he doesn't want the corruption to dry up. Why doesn't this make people angrier?
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ts5641 said:

nortex97 said:


Expose his wife/joint custody USAID/Soros funds. He should get the DOGE financial treatment.

He is dirty as hell. No wonder he doesn't want the corruption to dry up. Why doesn't this make people angrier?


DOGE pointed so much fraud out to the American people, but all that did was make the lemmings mad at DOGE and Elon. I think many just want to believe that everything is on the up and up. Ignorance is bliss for a lot of people. They would rather attack the messenger than acknowledge how corrupt all of these government programs are. Look at how hard moderate types attack conservatives over so called "conspiracies". It's an issue of them not wanting to dig below the surface and possibly find a truth that doesn't fit their worldview. They would rather believe a lie with all of their heart. It's willful ignorance.
 
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