A review of its recent priorities reveal the agency had more to do with far-left social engineering overseas than responsible diplomacy. Here’s a look at what USAID has been funding with American tax dollars:
DEI Initiatives Abroad
Last week, the Daily Mail reported on a myriad of programs supported by USAID which will now lose funding after Trump’s executive orders “sealed the spigot of U.S. taxpayer dollars flowing to DEI projects abroad.” Items include $70,000 for a “DEI musical” in Ireland, $47,000 for a “transgender opera” in Colombia, $32,000 for a “transgender comic book” in Peru, and $1.5 million for an LGBT jobs program in Serbia.
The Daily Caller also reported in September USAID delivered a $2 million grant to Guatemalan activists “to help organizations led by transexuals perform sex changes in the country.” The program was scheduled to begin in April and run until 2027.
Afghan Opium
In 2018, USAID spent $330 million to support “alternative development projects (ADP)” that were intended to deter the production of opium between 2005 and 2008. The inspector general for Afghanistan Reconstruction, however, John Sopko, said the “development programs inadvertently supported poppy production” in part by “the rehabilitation and development or irrigation systems.”
Fake HIV Prevention Workshop to Engineer Regime Change
Mike Benz, a former State Department official who is now executive director of Foundation for Freedom Online, posted the screenshot of a 2014 story from the Washington Post highlighting how USAID “literally set up fake AIDS prevention workshops to topple foreign governments.” According to the Post, undercover Central and South Americans hired by the U.S. government opened an HIV prevention group to recruit potential rebels for an insurrection in Cuba.