Roiling controversy has surrounded President Donald Trump’s announcement of sweeping changes at the US Agency for International Development, or USAID. The agency does supply humanitarian aid, yet it seems a portion of its budget goes to dubious propaganda campaigns worldwide. Little attention has been paid to the agency’s involvement with the CIA, particularly in creating the infamous 1974 Kissinger Report, which advocated for population control to further US “national security interests” in developing countries.
Freedom Fighters or Rogue Agency?
Numerous Democratic lawmakers have denounced efforts to reform USAID as illegal, unconstitutional, or even – according to Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) – tyrannical. Upon further inquiry, it appears the seemingly innocuous agency has been using a facade of philanthropic activities to conceal its more profound mission, which, ironically, many would call illegal, unconstitutional, and tyrannical.
Revelations that the agency, along with the Treasury, funded foreign social justice ventures – including a transgender comic book in Peru, a transgender opera in Colombia, a DEI musical in Ireland, drag queen shows in Nepal, and sex-change surgeries in Guatemala – do not appear to concern the agency’s outspoken supporters. But are these policies – such as $2.5 million for EVs in Vietnam and $1.5 million for DEI in Serbia – supported by a large majority of taxpayers?
Investing half a billion dollars to “expand atheism” in Nepal smacks of interfering with a foreign nation’s religion and possibly runs afoul of the US Constitution’s Establishment Clause: Some US courts and states have recognized atheism as a religion. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) claimed USAID supports “freedom fighters” around the world, conjuring memories of Iran-Contra, the unseating of Iran’s Mohammed Mossadegh, and other illicit activities hidden from taxpayers.
USAID – Enemy of US Liberties
Investing half a billion dollars to “expand atheism” in Nepal smacks of interfering with a foreign nation’s religion and possibly runs afoul of the US Constitution’s Establishment Clause: Some US courts and states have recognized atheism as a religion. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) claimed USAID supports “freedom fighters” around the world, conjuring memories of Iran-Contra, the unseating of Iran’s Mohammed Mossadegh, and other illicit activities hidden from taxpayers. […]
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