Wasteful Spending Can't Be Defended

This is just a piece of the list of where some of your tax dollars have gone in USAID-- 

$2 million for sex changes and "LGBT activism" in Guatemala.

$6 million to fund tourism in Egypt.

Spent $20 million on “Ahlan Simsim” — a new Sesame Street show in Iraq.

Over $4.5 million to “combat disinformation” in Kazakhstan.

Up to $10 million worth of USAID-funded meals went to al Qaeda-linked terrorist group the Nusra Front.

$500,000 to group that “empowers women” in an attempt to solve sectarian violence in Israel just 10 days before Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks. Awarded

nearly $25 million to Deloitte to promote green transportation in Georgia (the country). 

$4.67 million to EcoHealth Alliance, one of the key nongovernmental organizations funding bat virus research at Wuhan Institute of Virology, in late 2021.   

$20 million for the Strengthening Transparency and Accountability through Investigative Reporting program which used the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project as its implementing partner. 

USAID’s 2022-2030 climate strategy outlined a $150 billion “whole-of-Agency approach” to building an "equitable world with net-zero greenhouse gas emissions."

$7.9 million to a project that would teach Sri Lankan journalists to avoid “binary-gendered language.”

$1.1 million to an Armenian LGBT group.  

$1.2 million to the African Methodist Episcopal Church Service and Development Agency in Washington, D.C., to build “a state-of-the-art 440-seat auditorium.”

$1.3 million to Arab and Jewish photographers.

$1.5 million to promote LGBT advocacy in Jamaica.

$1.5 million to “rebuild” the Cuban media ecosystem.

$1.5 million for “art for inclusion of people with disabilities.”

$2 million to promote “LGBT equality through entrepreneurship … in developing Latin American countries.”

$2.1 million so the BBC can strengthen the media ecosystem in Libya, “designed to value the diversity of Libyan society.”

$2.3 million for “artisanal and small-scale gold mining” in the Amazon.

$2.5 million to promote “inclusion” in Vietnam.

$3.9 million to LGBT causes in the Western Balkans. 

$5.5 million to LGBT in Uganda.

$6 million to advance LGBT in “priority countries around the world.”

$6 million to “Transform Digital Spaces to Reflect Feminist Democratic Principles.”

$6.3 million to men who have sex with men in South Africa.

$8.3 million for “USAID Education: Equity and Inclusion.”

Another $16.8 million to a separate group in Vietnam for “inclusion.”

And yes, this agency does do "good" work at times.  And the heads of those projects that feed people(and not the terrorist groups who got millions)and provide life saving medicine can and know how to get waivers to keep their funds.  And those "real" agencies are not being shut down.

Now could you defend this sort of wasteful spending in Your Household/Family Budget?
I think not.

Sluggy