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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14355251/shocking-ways-usaid-spent-money.html

https://archive.is/ISsUy

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has spent tens of millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars on some shocking expenditures.

USAID was established in 1961 to provide money made by Americans to help countries develop abroad.

However, the agency has been shuttered because Donald Trump and Elon Musk have found that the aid being doled out overseas often does not accomplish core U.S. missions, like expanding education and improving infrastructure.

'You've got to basically get rid of the whole thing. It's beyond repair,' Musk said of USAID on Monday. 'We're shutting it down.'

Now Musk and officials at his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are readying to dissolve the agency and roll it into the State Department, an idea the Tesla CEO says Trump is on board with.

Just after taking office, Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio implemented a 90-day freeze on most foreign aid expenditures to give the new administration time to review what USAID's $30 billion budget for 2025 is being used on.

Rubio announced Monday he is now the acting director of USAID.

But some Republicans have been sounding the alarm on USAID for weeks, saying the agency is more focused on advancing diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) than diplomacy.

And some USAID receipts show it:

HIV research about transgenders

Millions to COVID lab in China

Serbian LGBTQ group

Electric vehicles in Vietnam

Trans care clinics

LGBTQ initiatives globally

Operas in Colombia

Peruvian trans comic books

Efforts to 'expand atheism' abroad