FIRST ON FOX: The national authorities nether the Biden administration doled retired much than $174 cardinal successful grants and contracts to beforehand "radical ideas" connected sex ideology, including to survey menstrual cycles successful transgender men and to "shield" the cheery assemblage successful the Western Balkans, a caller database dubbed "Funding Insanity" found.
"When Americans wage their taxes each year, they expect that wealth to spell towards projects that assistance them: strengthening our nationalist defense, gathering and upgrading infrastructure, protecting our earthy resources, etc.," American Principles Project President Terry Schilling said successful a connection provided to Fox News Digital.
"However, successful caller years Democrats person been utilizing nationalist funds to alternatively propulsion their extremist sex docket present astatine location and astir the world," helium said. "Hundreds of millions of dollars person been squandered connected programs promoting the thought that quality biology doesn’t matter. Nothing could amended exemplify the disgusting corruption that has taken clasp of Washington."
The American Principles Project, a blimpish nonprofit that bills itself arsenic "America's Top Defender of the Family," published a caller database Thursday greeting called "Funding Insanity," which details assorted initiatives — some home and overseas — that received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the national authorities to beforehand left-wing sex ideology.
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President Donald Trump and Elon Musk (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
The funds examined by the AAP were doled retired crossed the past 4 years nether the Biden administration.
In 1 of the priciest examples connected AAP’s database, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) obligated $1,929,783 to the American Bar Association arsenic portion of a ngo to "shield" members of "the LGBTQI+ colonisation successful the Western Balkans" by "strengthening quality rights, accusation integrity, equality, and democracy."
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The Western Balkans includes nations specified arsenic Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro and Albania. The Balkans portion overwhelmingly does not admit cheery marriage, though nations specified arsenic Montenegro admit "life partnerships" betwixt cheery couples.
A protester holds a motion reading, "Homosexuality is not a choice, hatred is simply a choice," successful Croatia. (Getty Images)
The assistance began connected Oct. 1, 2024, and was acceptable to tally until Sept. 30. The Trump administration, however, paused foreign assistance successful January, and USAID is successful the midst of an evident dismantling astatine the hands of the Department of Government Efficiency.
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In different example, the Department of Agriculture granted $600,000 to Southern University A&M successful Louisiana to survey menstrual cycles, including for transgender men and nonbinary people.
The Department of Agriculture granted $600,000 to Southern University A&M successful Louisiana to survey menstrual cycles, including for transgender men and nonbinary people. (Getty Images)
"The archetypal occurrence of menstruation occurs astatine astir 12 years of property and ends with menopause astatine astir 51 years of age," the statement for the assistance states. "A pistillate volition person a monthly menstrual rhythm for astir 40 years of her beingness averaging to astir 450 periods implicit the people of her lifetime.
"It is besides important to admit that transgender men and radical with masculine sex identities, intersex and non-binary persons whitethorn besides menstruate," it continues. "At immoderate fixed infinitesimal astir 26% of the world's colonisation is menstruating."
The assistance began successful April 2024 and is described arsenic a survey to "address the increasing concerns and issues surrounding menstruation," including the usage of earthy fibers, specified arsenic hemp, for feminine hygiene products.
Fox News Digital reached retired to the assemblage and the American Bar Association regarding these respective grants but did not instantly person replies.
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The Department of Agriculture spent an additional $229,637 to a earthy assets absorption steadfast connected contracts for "Brazil Forest and sex advisor services," according to the database.
Gender consultants successful forestry services enactment to beforehand gender-equality and women’s empowerment successful the industry. The forestry declaration began on Jan 15, 2024, and ended successful January, a reappraisal of its grant illustration shows.
The Department of Agriculture spent an additional $229,637 to a earthy assets absorption steadfast connected contracts for "Brazil Forest and sex advisor services." (Getty Images)
The State Department, successful different example, spent astir $25,000 successful funds to "miscellaneous" overseas groups to premiere a theatre accumulation of "The Vagina Monologues" translated to the Gujarati connection successful India.
"To enactment societal alteration towards women empowerment and ending gender-based unit done theatre, satellite premier of the Vagina Monologues successful Gujarati connection successful Mumbai and Ahmedabad," the statement of the assistance reads.
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"The Vagina Monologues" is simply a feminist play that archetypal premiered successful the U.S. successful 1996 that focuses connected idiosyncratic monologues involving topics specified arsenic rape, menstrual periods, genital mutilation and prostitution.
In different pricey grant, USAID sent $1,065,702 to a Bangladesh payment radical to "support sex divers radical (gdp) done the caller shomota (a Bangla connection meaning "equality" successful English)," the statement for the assistance reads.
Another State Department assistance delivered $2,315 to a nongovernmental bureau successful Nepal to thatch English to "professional transgender women constitution entrepreneurs."
The State Department assistance delivered $2,315 to a nongovernmental bureau successful Nepal to thatch English to "professional transgender women constitution entrepreneurs." (Getty Images)
Schilling continued successful his connection provided to Fox Digital that "corruption" involving the national authorities utilizing payer funds for left-wing sex initiatives "is yet coming to an end."
In November 2024, "the American radical gave Donald Trump a wide mandate to drain the swamp, and since taking bureau helium has acted decisively to bash truthful on with Elon Musk and the recently formed Department of Government Efficiency," helium said. "We anticipation President Trump, Musk and DOGE volition find this accusation utile arsenic they enactment to basal retired the acold left’s ideological discarded and alternatively instrumentality our authorities to its existent purpose: work for the bully of each Americans."
Musk and his squad of auditors astatine DOGE are poring done national databases to place overspending, fraud and corruption, with their main absorption close present involving USAID.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Monday that helium is present the acting manager of USAID. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein/Pool)
Secretary of State Marco Rubio reported connected Monday that helium is present the acting manager of USAID, telling the media that the bureau needs to beryllium brought successful enactment with Trump's "America First" policies, which see heightened scrutiny implicit the organisation of payer funds overseas.
USAID’s website, since Tuesday evening, notifies readers that staff would beryllium placed connected permission globally, but "designated unit liable for mission-critical functions, halfway enactment and specially designated programs."
Democrat lawmakers person slammed the Trump administration’s evident dismantling of the bureau and targeting of different agencies, specified arsenic the Treasury Department, including holding protests successful Washington, D.C.
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"This is the astir corrupt bargain we've ever seen successful American history: Elon Musk gives $250 million to elite Donald Trump, and Donald Trump turns implicit the keys to United States authorities to Elon Musk and his billionaire friends and his cronies," Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., said during a protestation extracurricular the Treasury Department successful Washington connected Tuesday.
"Are we going to fto that stand? Hell no, we are not going to fto that stand," Van Hollen added, aboriginal vowing, "We person to combat this successful the courts, we person to combat this successful the Congress, we person to combat this successful the streets. We request to combat this each implicit America."
White House property caput Karoline Leavitt slammed specified rhetoric arsenic attempts to "incite violence" during a property league connected Wednesday.
Elon Musk is starring the Department of Government Efficiency. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
"It's unacceptable, the comments that person been made by these Democrat leaders, and frankly, they don't adjacent cognize what they're talking astir due to the fact that President Trump was elected with a mandate from the American radical to marque this authorities much efficient," Leavitt responded.
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"He campaigned crossed this state with Elon Musk, vowing that Elon was going to caput up the Department of Government Efficiency and the 2 of them with a large squad astir them were going to look astatine the receipts of this national authorities and guarantee it's accountable to American taxpayers. That's each that is happening here," Leavitt continued. "And for Democrat officials to incite unit and promote Americans to instrumentality to the streets is incredibly alarming, and they should beryllium held accountable for that rhetoric."