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USAID has been funding democrats and leftist causes for too many years and now they are exposed. The funding should cease.


'Nothing to be proud of': State Department spits on USAID's grave following Bono, Obama eulogies | Blaze Media

Nothing to be proud of': State Department spits on USAID's grave following Bono, Obama eulogies

Joseph MacKinnon

July 03, 2025

A spokeswoman for the State Department provided a gentle reminder that USAID was wasteful and ineffective.

Bono, the Irish singer valued at around $700 million whose real name is Paul David Hewson, did his apparent best on the May 30 episode of "The Joe Rogan Experience" to push the narrative that the Trump administration's dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development would result in the deaths of multitudes of foreigners.

Rogan didn't buy what Bono was selling, noting, "For sure, it was a money-laundering operation. For sure, there was no oversight. For sure, billions of dollars are missing."

Just as the Irishman's fearmongering fell flat on the podcast, similar efforts by Bill Gates and other super-wealthy individuals apparently keen to keep American taxpayers running funds through their organizations and on the hook for wasteful foreign projects failed to achieve their desired effect.

'The amount of USAID dollars going to local partners increased only from 4% to 6%.'
The USAID was officially shuttered on Tuesday, just weeks after the State Department took over its foreign assistance programs.

Responding to the eulogies offered up for USAID during a video conference on Monday by former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush, as well as by Bono, State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce made abundantly clear that tears shed for the agency are wasted on what was a bloated and ineffective bureaucracy.

To drive home her point, Bruce damned the former agency with some admissions from its former administrator and longtime champion, Samantha Power.

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"Samantha Power, the last USAID director under the last administration at the end of 2024, complained in public statements that when she started only 7 percent of aid money that was assigned to various projects and groups made it to its intended destination, and that’s because of bureaucracy and layers of contractors," said Bruce. "And she was proud that she got it up to 10 percent."

Power noted in a 2021 speech, "In the last decade, despite numerous efforts, initiatives, and even support from Capitol Hill, the amount of USAID dollars going to local partners increased only from 4% to 6%."

She suggested that cash was instead poured into big, remote NGOs "because working with local partners, it turns out, is more difficult, time-consuming, and it's riskier," adding that local partners "often lack the internal accounting expertise our contracts require."

USAID funds are instead gobbled up by "implementing partners," such as private contractors, government agencies, NGOs, and international organizations. The Congressional Research Service noted:

Few foreign governments receive direct budget support, and some foreign assistance dollars never leave the United States at all — instead going to a U.S. business for the end benefit of a foreign population. Money goes to U.S. farmers, defense contractors, and management consultants, among others, for commodities or services provided to benefit foreign populations.

In 2021, Power set a target for the agency: By 2025, 25% of USAID funding would go directly to the intended destinations to support the efforts of locally led organizations. The Democratic former adviser to Obama failed miserably.

According to Devex, the percentage of eligible funding that went to local organizations went from 10.2% in 2022 to 9.6% the following year.

'We are not ending foreign aid. We are making it more nimble.'
"Less than 10% of our foreign assistance dollars flowing through USAID is actually reaching those communities," Walter Kerr, co-founding executive director of Unlock Aid, told PBS earlier this year. "About 98% of USAID grants pay for activities and not results."

"Forty-three percent of [the activities] failed to achieve about half of the intended results. But in spite of that, they still got paid in full almost every time and sometimes more," added Kerr.

Kerr indicated that working with local partners could prove far more effective.

"One study found that, when working with a local partner, as opposed to an international aid contractor, you could find savings upwards of 32% alone. And that's a conservative estimate," said Kerr.

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Bruce noted that within the Trump administration's new foreign aid framework, bureaus will be assigned to various regions around the globe.

"That foreign assistance for that region will now sit with the bureau assigned to that region as opposed to some massive bureaucracy, not even housed in our building, dealing with countries and regions separately without dealing with the experts here who understand what those regions might need," said Bruce. "It will be more efficient. It will be more effective. We are not ending foreign aid. We are making it more nimble."

'This era of government-sanctioned inefficiency has officially come to an end.'
Obama, among those evidently happy to pretend USAID was worth its salt, said in a video excerpt obtained by the Associated Press on Monday, "Gutting USAID is a travesty, and it's a tragedy. Because it's some of the most important work happening anywhere in the world."

Bono reportedly read a poem, repeated his suggestion that millions will now die without USAID, then told agency workers, "They called you crooks. When you were the best of us."

Bruce countered in her Wednesday press conference by stating that "there is nothing to be proud of when 90%, according to Samantha Power, is not even making it to the people to whom it was promised."

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a July 1 article on his department's Substack page, "Beyond creating a globe-spanning NGO industrial complex at taxpayer expense, USAID has little to show since the end of the Cold War. Development objectives have rarely been met, instability has often worsened, and anti-American sentiment has only grown. On the global stage, the countries that benefit the most from our generosity usually fail to reciprocate."

"This era of government-sanctioned inefficiency has officially come to an end," continued Rubio. "Under the Trump Administration, we will finally have a foreign funding mission in America that prioritizes our national interests."
 
Gabriel_Bell said:
More bigotry from the resident phony Christian.
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Another organization funding anti-Israel riots in the US and elsewhere is the radical terror group Samidoun, funded by the Tides Foundation which is funded by George Soros and other leftists and leftist organizations, many of which have received hundreds of millions of dollars from USAID.



Samidoun - Wikipedia


Samidoun (Arabic: صامدون, romanized: Ṣāmidūn, lit. 'steadfast'—see sumud for the cultural context of this term), officially Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, is a pro-Palestinian advocacy group based in Canada. It describes itself as a "working to build solidarity with Palestinian prisoners."[1] Since the October 7 attacks and ensuing Gaza war, Samidoun has organized Palestinian solidarity protests in the United States and Canada.
Samidoun has been accused by a number of governments of raising funds for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a political and militant group ...
Since the beginning of the Gaza war, Samidoun has been described as "pro-Hamas".[7] In November 2023, the association was banned by the Federal Ministry of the Interior of Germany for allegedly distributing candy to celebrate the October 7 attacks.[8][9] Further reasons given was its alleged support for Hamas and endorsing and incitment of violence.[10]
Kates was arrested in April 2024 after she led a chant of "Long live October 7" and referred to a number of designated terrorist organizations as heroes at a demonstration in Vancouver.[11] Kates has said that Hamas and Hezbollah are "not engaging in terrorism" but are "engaging in a national liberation struggle."[12]
Meta Platforms and YouTube have blocked certain online platforms of the organization,[vague] citing breaches of their community guidelines.[17]
October 2024 Vancouver rally
On the first anniversary of the October 7 attacks, a speaker at a rally in Vancouver organized by Samidoun identified themselves with Hezbollah and Hamas and called for death to the United States, Canada, and Israel.
Samidoun's fiscal sponsor is the Arizona-based Alliance for Global Justice (AFGJ). [27]

In February 2023, the AFGJ announced that the company that handled its credit card transactions had blocked its ability to process donations due to allegations that Samidoun was involved in terrorist activities.[28][29][30] Donors to AFGJ have included the Tides Foundation and the New Venture Fund, although the New Venture Fund announced after the October 7 terrorist attacks that it would discontinue all funding to AFGJ... The Tides Foundation did not announce plans to discontinue support of AFGJ.[31][32]
 
Israel is exhausted by the casualties and destruction that Iran has inflicted on them and the fact that thousands of members of the IDF are busy exterminating mostly innocent Gazans an are therefore not contributing to Israel's economy. And service in the IDF will greatly increase the civil violence by soldiers used to killing people for no reason.
 
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360_F_713577098_IQ1WleoxnjqyHG4UcWCuwRAAOPvYzZkp[1].webp USAID has been funding democrats and leftist causes for too many years and now they are exposed. The funding should cease.

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Gabriel_Bell said:
Israel is exhausted by the casualties and destruction that Iran has inflicted on them and the fact that thousands of members of the IDF are busy exterminating mostly innocent Gazans an are therefore not contributing to Israel's economy. And service in the IDF will greatly increase the civil violence by soldiers used to killing people for no reason.
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I am certain you do not have good judgment and access to facts about what is really going on in the wars against Israel.
 
mark francis said:
I am certain you do not have good judgment and access to facts about what is really going on in the wars against Israel.
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These have been wars provoked by Israel for the purpose of stealing land and making Israel the dominating power in the Middle East. What is going on in Gaza and the West Bank are genocide and ethnic cleansing. The US should cease sending arms and aid to Israel.
 
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These have been wars provoked by Israel for the purpose of stealing land and making Israel the dominating power in the Middle East. What is going on in Gaza and the West Bank are genocide and ethnic cleansing. The US should cease sending arms and aid to Israel.
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What land has Israel sought to seize by what invasion of their neighbors? The land they owned but ceded to the Palestinians before the Palestinians rewarded their generosity by electing Hamas to begin murdering innocent Israeli women and children from the vantage point of that gifted property?

Are you being motivated by leftist propaganda to unjustly hate Jews?


Samidoun - Wikipedia


Samidoun​
Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network​
صامدون​
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Samidoun (Arabic: صامدون, romanized: Ṣāmidūn, lit. 'steadfast'—see sumud for the cultural context of this term), officially Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, is a pro-Palestinian advocacy group based in Canada. It describes itself as a "working to build solidarity with Palestinian prisoners."[1] Since the October 7 attacks and ensuing Gaza war, Samidoun has organized Palestinian solidarity protests in the United States and Canada.

Since the beginning of the Gaza war, Samidoun has been described as "pro-Hamas".[7] In November 2023, the association was banned by the Federal Ministry of the Interior of Germany for allegedly distributing candy to celebrate the October 7 attacks.[8][9] Further reasons given was its alleged support for Hamas and endorsing and incitment of violence.[10]

Since 2019, various financial platforms, including American Express, PayPal, Donorbox, Plaid, and Discover, have stopped processing funding for Samidoun and the AFGJ, "citing fears of relations to terror activity." In February 2023, the AFGJ announced that the company that handled its credit card transactions had blocked its ability to process donations due to allegations that Samidoun was involved in terrorist activities.[28][29][30] Donors to AFGJ have included the Tides Foundation

The Tides Foundation is another organization under principle control of George Soros and which has received millions of dollars in USAID funding.
 
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