Documents show how USAID funded “ridiculous” projects. Elon Musk reacts

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Washington, USA:

US President Donald Trump’s administration on Wednesday revealed details of how the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funded “ridiculous” projects over the years. This comes a month after Mr. Trump issued an executive order to reassess and adapt to foreign assistance with the new administration’s policy and set a 90-day break on foreign aid.

According to the documents, USAID funded $ 500 thousand to resolve sectarian violence in Israel, just 10 days before October 7, 2023, attacked by Hamas, killing at least 1,200 people. It also gave $ 5 million to the Ecohealth Alliance – one of the most important NGOS financing of bat virus research at Wuhan Lab.

At least $ 10 million value of USAID-funded meals was sent to an al Qaeda-bound terrorist group, Trump administration said.

The documents also revealed that USAID funded millions of dollars to LHBT groups and their activism – a topic that Mr. Trump is trying to discard from the United States.

The funds include: $ 7.9 million to teach Sri Lankan journalists how to avoid “binary gender language”, $ 2 million for sex changes and LHBT activism in Guatemala Millions to promote LHBT equality through entrepreneurship in Latin America, $ 3.9 million For LHBT -causes in Western Balkans, $ 5.5 million for LHBT -Ittivism in Uganda, $ 6 million to promote LHBT issues in priority countries around the world, and $ 6.3 million for men having sex with men in South Africa.

Apart from This, USAID has Funded $ 25 Million for Deloitte to Promote “Green Transportation” in Georgia, $ 6 Million to Transform Digital Spaces To Reflect Feminist Democratic Principles, $ 1.3 Million to Arab and Jewish Photographers, and $ 8.3 Million for “USAID Education: Equity and Inclusion, ”said Trump administration.

It has also funded over $ 4.5 million to fight disinformation in Kazakhstan.

“For decades, USAID -Bureaucrats thought they were responsible for no one -but that era is over. President Trump stops waste, fraud and abuse,” wrote the Trump administration at X.

Technical billionaire Elon Musk also responded to the documents and called it a “crazy waste” of people’s tax money.

What is USAID?

USAID is by far the largest humanitarian and development arm for the US government with a workforce of approximately 10,000 people worldwide and an annual budget of tens of thousands of billions of dollars. Congress approves USA’s financing every year. The Humanitarian Agency then works with Congress and the White House to set its investment priorities, while the Ministry of State provides the foreign policy guidance.

The United States is the world’s largest provider of official development assistance, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Most of its support is channeled through USAID.