It’s official: President Trump just delivered on one of the boldest promises of his administration — and this one’s been a long time coming. On Friday, the State Department announced the complete shutdown of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the bloated, $40 billion-a-year behemoth that for decades has been the piggy bank for every left-wing social engineering project dreamed up in a D.C. think tank.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio made it clear: the USAID of today had strayed far from its original mission. “The gains were too few, and the costs were too high,” he said. Translation? This thing became a taxpayer-funded circus of woke nonsense and global virtue signaling.
The move follows a major legal win for the Trump Administration and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which has been steamrolling through the federal bureaucracy exposing fraud, waste, and corruption. USAID was always going to be one of the big ones — and now, it’s done.
Some of the spending that DOGE flagged reads like satire, except it’s not. A $1.5 million DEI program in Serbia? A $70,000 DEI musical in Ireland? How about $47,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia or $32,000 for a transgender comic book in Peru? You can’t make this stuff up. The cherry on top? A $2 million fund for sex changes and LGBT activism in Guatemala — yes, that’s where your tax dollars have been going.
The White House called it what it is: “massive sums of money to ridiculous — and, in many cases, malicious — pet projects of entrenched bureaucrats.” That era is now over.
Former DOGE official Jeremy Lewin issued an internal memo confirming that the State Department will absorb some of USAID’s essential functions but will “discontinue” anything that doesn’t align with the administration’s America First priorities. Members of Congress were notified that operations will wind down completely by July 1.
And just to be clear, this didn’t happen quietly. A federal appeals court — including two judges appointed by Bush 41 and Trump himself — ruled against 26 whining USAID employees who tried to stop the cleanup effort. They lost. America won.
Secretary Rubio summed it up perfectly: “Thanks to President Trump, this misguided and fiscally irresponsible era is now over.” Another promise made. Another promise kept. And $40 billion a year just got put back in the hands of Americans — where it belongs.
Leave a Comment