Donald Trump's bid freezing foreign aid has sealed the spigot of U.S. payer dollars flowing to DEI projects abroad, redeeming U.S. wealth from being 'lit connected fire,' a apical Republican says.
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast (R-Fla.) has revealed exclusively to DailyMail.com immoderate suspicious national expenditures that the State Department approved nether Joe Biden.
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) programs, meant to grow diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) objectives abroad, are present efficaciously killed nether Trump's overseas assistance freeze.
One of the large summons items that nary longer volition person U.S. backing is simply a pro LGBTQ radical successful Serbia done a radical called 'Grupa Izadji,' which successful English translates to 'Group Come Out.'
This NGO received $1.5 cardinal from Biden's medication to 'advance diverseness equity and inclusion successful Serbia's workplaces and concern communities, by promoting economical empowerment of and accidental for LGBTQI+ radical successful Serbia.'
According to the grant, the Serbian radical 'will foster an situation that increases employment imaginable for LGBTQI+ persons, expands opportunities for LGBTQI+ entrepreneurs, and reduces workplace discrimination.'
However, Trump's overseas assistance frost has chopped disconnected wealth from flowing to 'Grupa Izadji,' which was expected to beryllium funded done the extremity of FY 2025.
Projects similar that and others that propulsion DEI, similar a $70,000 assistance to a radical successful Ireland to nutrient a DEI philharmonic successful 2022, volition present beryllium crushed by Trump and his Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Mast says.
A photograph of posted connected pro-LGBT Serbian Grupa Izadji's website. The radical has already recieved $1.5 cardinal from the U.S. to heighten LGBT employment opportunities
Biden's medication awarded $2.5 cardinal for electrical vehicles for Vietnam. As of December 2024, the effort has saved 260 gallons of gas, the aforesaid magnitude of state held by 2 mean semi-trucks
President Donald Trump's overseas assistance frost has halted wealth flowing to Stat Department grants
'America would person been amended disconnected if Biden and Blinken had lit your wealth connected fire, alternatively of spending it connected DEI musicals successful Ireland oregon creating jobs for LGBTQ Serbians successful Serbia,' helium told DailyMail.com successful a statement.
Trump's overseas assistance frost 'is communal consciousness versus crazy' helium added, slamming the costly overseas projects.
The Irish DEI philharmonic money was approved specifically made to 'deliver a unrecorded philharmonic lawsuit to beforehand the U.S. and Irish shared values of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility,' according to the grant.
Another 1 of these costly overseas assistance funds approved nether Biden's medication awarded $2.5 cardinal for electrical vehicles for Vietnam.
Since the immense concern of U.S. payer dollars determination has been astatine slightest 1 artillery presumption built, avoiding a full of 260 gallons of gas, according to the USAID website.
An mean semi-truck holds roughly, by comparison, holds astir 130 gallons of gas.
Earlier this week Mast revealed different jaw-dropping projects that U.S. taxpayers were backing successful Afghanistan, Peru, Gaza and Colombia.
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said this week that the Biden medication astir sent $50 cardinal payer dollars worthy of condoms to Gaza, which she called 'a preposterous discarded of payer money!'
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast told DailyMail.com that Biden's State Department funded a transgender opera successful Colombia and a transgender advocacy comic publication successful Peru
The U.S. authorities gave $70,000 to a radical successful Ireland to make a DEI musical. Above theatre goers are shown lining up to ticker the 'Hamilton' philharmonic successful Dublin
Joe Biden (L) and erstwhile Secretary of State Antony Blinken (R) oversaw the State Department erstwhile it approved the millions for Serbian LBGT advancement and Vietnam's electrical conveyance efforts
'There was astir to beryllium $50 cardinal payer dollars that went retired the doorway to money condoms successful Gaza!' Leavitt shockingly claimed.
Though aboriginal the property secretary's claims were debunked aft it was reported that conscionable a information of the $50 cardinal was acceptable speech for household readying similar contraception.
Mast besides blew the lid connected a USAID programme that awarded '$47,000 for a transgender opera successful Colombia.'
The president besides revealed the U.S. authorities funded a Peruvian 'transgender comic book' that costed $32,000.
'We're trying to get our hands connected the existent comic book, successful Peru,' Mast antecedently told DailyMail.com. 'And I heard it's reasonably risqué.'
Th Republican called the projects 'crazy' and vowed akin programs volition soon beryllium shuttered.
'These are drops successful the bucket of the American budget, but they're inactive ridiculous and stupid,' The Republican said of the programs that helium is moving with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Trump to dismantle.
Rubio himself adjacent noticed the State Department aft being sworn successful that large programme reforms could beryllium expected.
'Every dollar we spend, each programme we fund, and each argumentation we prosecute indispensable beryllium justified with the reply to 3 elemental questions,' his memo stated, adding lone initiatives that 'make America safer, stronger, and much prosperous' are appropriate.
'Certain priorities volition beryllium replaced, definite issues deemphasized, and immoderate practices we volition cease altogether,' his connection continued.