'Swindled the American taxpayer': New House GOP internal memo rips Dem USAID uproar

EXCLUSIVE: An interior memo being circulated to House Republicans is urging lawmakers to reason that President Donald Trump’s handling of overseas assistance is "already paying dividends" and that the Biden medication spent that wealth connected initiatives similar "a transgender opera successful Colombia done the State Department."

The three-page document, obtained by Fox News Digital done a House GOP source, is being sent to members of Republican enactment arsenic good arsenic lawmakers connected the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

It includes 2 pages of recommended talking points, including, "America is spending $40 cardinal successful overseas assistance annually. Much of those assistance dollars are not adjacent reaching the intended recipients and are alternatively propping up an NGO concern analyzable that has, for years, swindled the American taxpayer."

The memo urged Republicans to reason Trump’s frost connected overseas assistance "is needed due to the fact that it's astir intolerable to measure overseas assistance programs erstwhile they are connected autopilot."

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President Trump rolled backmost USAID successful caller days. (Getty Images/File)

"A 90-day reappraisal period, with commonsense waivers for genuinely life-threatening situations, is the lone mode to springiness the State Department the clip needed to basal retired waste," it said.

The State Department issued a frost connected astir national overseas assistance days aft Trump was sworn into office. Within caller days, Trump and Elon Musk’s "Department of Government Efficiency" (DOGE) person besides led a important scale-back of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), including making Secretary of State Marco Rubio its acting head.

Opponents of the moves person said it would embolden authoritarian governments that privation to spot the United States' stature connected the satellite signifier diminished and that it would imperil thousands of lives overseas that beryllium connected the aid.

But Republicans like House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Brian Mast, R-Fla., a apical Trump ally, reason that the moves are justified to measure what wealth is really going to overseas assistance that aligns with Trump’s agenda.

"America’s overseas assistance is not foundation and its extremity should not beryllium to beforehand DEI abroad," the committee wrote connected X connected Monday.

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House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Brian Mast is simply a apical Trump ally. (Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images/File)

The memo besides encouraged lawmakers to constituent retired existing exceptions for "emergency nutrient assistance" and "life-saving medicine, aesculapian services, food, shelter, and subsistence assistance, arsenic good arsenic supplies and tenable administrative costs arsenic indispensable to present specified assistance."

The 3rd leafage is dedicated to highlighting wherever committee Republicans tracked overseas assistance arsenic going toward, including "$39,652 to big seminars astatine the Edinburgh International Book Festival connected gender identity and radical equality done the State Department" and "$425,622 to assistance Indonesian java companies go much clime and sex affable done USAID."

Other priorities listed included "$14 cardinal successful currency vouchers for migrants astatine the confederate borderline done the State Department," "$446,700 to beforehand the enlargement of atheism successful Nepal done the State Department" and "$32,000 for an LGBTQ-centered comic publication successful Peru."

A radical of House Democrats said they were denied introduction into USAID office connected Monday amid reports of a scale-back successful elder officials and others.

"We are not going to fto this injustice happen. Congress created this bureau with the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, and if you privation to alteration it, you got to alteration that law," said Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va.

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images/File)

It’s not wide if each Republicans are connected committee with Trump’s push, however. A ballot to defund USAID past twelvemonth led by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., failed with 127 GOP lawmakers voting against it, compared to 81 successful support.

But Trump’s handling of overseas assistance has been backed by Republicans known to beryllium nationalist information hawks, including erstwhile House Foreign Affairs Chair Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas.

"President Trump and his squad are close to scrutinize and revamp U.S. overseas assistance organisation to guarantee each payer dollar serves its intended purpose. And I americium optimistic they volition bash it successful a mode that strengthens the volition down these programs and strengthens our nationalist security," McCaul said.