By R. Cort Kirkwood
Politico and The New York Times might be sweating about President Donald Trump’s dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development and reforming other government agencies for a reason.
Both publications have collected millions from U.S. taxpayers.
Federal agencies pumped almost $35 million into Politico. Other government agencies are subsidizing the Times. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) alone put almost $30 million into the deep pockets of the Times.
Taxpayers have also wasted money on The Washington Post and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
Trump’s defunding USAID with the help of Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency has particularly exercised Politico. Two articles provide an example.
The website fretted that the “The move affects thousands of people and is the latest blow the administration is striking against the agency, which is America’s primary vehicle for providing humanitarian aid.”
The aid isn’t really “humanitarian,” particularly the “aid” used to provoke riots against Ukraine’s democratically elected but neutral government in 2014, as incoming HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has said.
The agency is widely believed to be a CIA front…
Understandably, the thousands of USAID employees who’ve never had a real job are seething about the waste, fraud, and abuse that has been publicized during the last few days, including these items revealed by the GOP-controlled U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee.
From USAID:
• $15 million for condoms to the Taliban;
• $3,315,446 for “being LGBTQ in the Caribbean”;
• $2.5 million to build electric vehicle charging stations in Vietnam’s largest cities;
• $1.5 million to promote job opportunities for LGBTQ individuals in Serbia; and,
• $425,622 to help Indonesian coffee companies become more climate and gender friendly.
Read the rest here: https://thenewamerican.com/features/govt-data-politico-took-34m-from-taxpayers-nyt-got-tens-of-millions-more/
