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A White House statement last month ripped the lid off the wasteful spending that went unchecked for decades. “For decades, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has been unaccountable to taxpayers as it funnels massive sums of money to the ridiculous — and, in many cases, malicious — pet projects of entrenched bureaucrats, with next-to-no oversight.”
Among the more outrageous expenses? Millions funneled into so-called Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) campaigns overseas—programs that had nothing to do with America’s interests and everything to do with pushing left-wing ideology. One $1.5 million project aimed to “advance diversity, equity and inclusion in Serbia’s workplaces and business communities.” Another funneled $70,000 into a DEI musical in Ireland.
But that’s not even the worst of it.
According to watchdogs at DOGE, the agency funneled billions toward radical LGBT initiatives under the guise of foreign aid. Among the line items were $47,000 for a “transgender opera” in Colombia, $32,000 for a “transgender comic book” in Peru, and an astonishing $2 million to promote sex changes and LGBT activism in Guatemala.
The final nail in the coffin came Friday, when former DOGE official Jeremy Lewin confirmed in a memo that USAID’s shutdown was moving forward. “The State Department intends to assume responsibility for many” of the agency’s roles, according to ABC News.
Rubio laid out the shift in clear terms: “Thanks to President Trump, this misguided and fiscally irresponsible era is now over. We are reorienting our foreign assistance programs to align directly with what is best for the United States and our citizens.”
He added: “We are continuing essential lifesaving programs and making strategic investments that strengthen our partners and our own country. This is yet another promise made and delivered to the American people.”
Lawmakers have now been formally notified that USAID operations will cease within the State Department by July 1. Any remaining programs that don’t fall in line with Trump’s America First agenda will be scrapped altogether.
Originally created to provide humanitarian relief and promote health security, the $40 billion-a-year agency became, in the eyes of many conservatives, a Trojan horse for radical left-wing social experiments funded by U.S. taxpayers.
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The plan to dismantle the agency has been in the works since Trump first entered the White House, but it wasn’t until Friday that the administration scored a decisive legal victory.
A three-judge panel from the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia—featuring appointees from Presidents George H.W. Bush and Donald Trump—rejected a last-ditch plea from 26 current and former USAID employees hoping to block DOGE’s shutdown orders.
With that final roadblock cleared, the administration wasted no time pulling the plug on what many saw as a bloated, ideologically hijacked agency.
The message from the Trump team is clear: the days of globalist giveaways are over. American foreign aid is finally coming home.
