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Monday, State Secretary Marco Rubio announced Yes “After 6 weeks, we are officially canceled 83% of the program in USAID,” ends 5,200 foreign aid contracts that amounted to tens of billions of dollars. These funds, said Rubio, spent “in ways that did not serve, (and in some cases they even harmed), the fundamental national interests of the United States.”

At the beginning of the review period, the Americans faced shocking reality where their dollars went with foreign help. We are now acute aware that, instead of funding essential humanitarian facilities or other altruistic projects, our taxpayers persistently interfered with ideological initiatives that have little to do with realistic assistance in developing countries. We cannot innociate what we saw – not only amazing waste, but also coercion, in the amount of billion dollars.

Amazing, in many cases, the American side of assistance was not even directed towards depleted countries at all. Take for example, $ 3.2 million allocated for BBCPublicly finances taxpayers in the UK – Why did American citizens subsidize the state broadcasters of the rich people?

How Trump Administration Removes Side Assistance, Revelation on American Priority Priorities abroad should serve as a huge wake-up call. Zavountians, legislators treated foreign help as an empty check for bureaucrats for the promotion of ideological programs ranging from absurd to open unjust unjust. The American people have the right to require responsibility, not only because of their interests, but also for good nations that undergo an ideological coercion under the guise of American aid.

There were so many examples of madly mismatched funds that barely knows where to start. There was $ 70,000 to fund Musical’s dei u IrelandDespite the land that was already among the most endangered liberal in Europe. We have been announced about $ 32,000 for transgender comic books in the topic Peru and $ 47,000 for transgender opera in Colombia. These endeavors did not have any impact on humanitarian aid, and yet they are a priority over the authentic development needs around the world.

In the President Donald Trump address For the joint session, we learned from the grant for $ 45 million for the dei scholarship and $ 8 million for the promotion of LGBTQI + activism in Lesoto, among other amazing expenses. USAIDs LGBTQI + Inclusion Fundcontaining $ 25 million in 2024. years, Funeled resources according to this agenda around the world.

We have spent an American taxpayer by strengthening the “trans-LED” organization in Guatemala. Now supported three “transgender clinics” in India This allegedly serviced 5,000 individuals and are now forced to close with USAID disassembly. Similar clinics in South Africa They announced closure due to stopping American financing.

2024. We were assigned to $ 395 million For Global Cyber ​​and Digital Development Initiatives with the primary goal of supporting LGBTQI + access to digital technologies. We paid for efforts that result in Bangladesh Adding third gender options in its 2021 national list, has conducted a “inclusive development analysis” on the LGBTQI + population in Reads Timorand funded Dominican RepublicFirst national research of LGBTQI + individuals. We spent $ 16,500 for “united and equal queer-feminist discourse” in Albania. We arranged $ 8,000 to encourage “LGBTQ + Cooperation” between Greek and Turkey Cypriot-An example of taxpayer dollars being directed toward farcical micro-level intervents with no evident benefit for anyone.

USAID has assigned an incredibly $ 3.3 million initiative called “Be lgbtq on the caribbean“” Support to activist groups in a traditionally imagined region. Kosovo They received funds for transgender recognition according to the law, despite the emergency need for real development in the light of struggling economies. USAID has set aside $ 1.5 million to promote dei initiatives in Serbia and determined another $ 1.5 million for gender and climate survey in Pakistani Universities.

And the list continues: USAID has spent $ 600 million Annually in their “sexual and reproductive health” of the agenda around the world. Part of this budget was focused on large groups of abortions such as Marie Stoples International, which predicted 14 million dollars Loss of a dollar without USAID support.

Tragic, these are American taxpayers who were significantly agreed by the contractual health “reproductive health” initiatives “, including abortion, abroad – mainly in countries that protect an unborn life. 2023. years, now they gave 194.4 million dollars UN-UN (UNFPA), despite known advocacy for abortion in countries that protect an unborn life. In fact, now they were the largest donor of UNPANPA all the way to the trump absent That.

US taxpayers deserve transparency and responsibility in how their money is spent abroad. Furthermore, countries eventually receive deserve to be spared the injured effects of ideological colonization. This gently wrongly incorrect spending reveals a deep rot within our foreign help system. The taxpayer dollar should not be used to promote forced programs in other countries, nor should they serve as a Slush Fund for ideological bureaucrat projects.

Everyone is available from a foreign assistance system that prioritizes responsibility, national interest and respect for the sovereignty of the people to help. Cutting mad is the first step. As the administration takes this necessary overhaul, it must ensure that any generosity abroad is forwarded to real humanitarian efforts to both reflect American values ​​and the truly recipients.

Elyssa Koren is an international human rights lawyer and the director of legal communication for ADF INTERNATIONAL. Follow it on x:@Elyssa_koren

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