President Donald Trump is OVER the corruption in our government and the sheer amount of nonsense waste that is throwing American taxpayer money down the drain….and lining the pockets of corrupt politicians.
Trump spoke out on the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), declaring that the “corruption is at levels rarely seen before” and demanded to “close it down.”
Trump wrote on Truth social, in all caps, “USAID IS DRIVING THE RADICAL LEFT CRAZY, AND THERE IS NOTHING THEY CAN DO ABOUT IT BECAUSE THE WAY IN WHICH THE MONEY HAS BEEN SPENT, SO MUCH OF IT FRAUDULENTLY, IS TOTALLY UNEXPLAINABLE. THE CORRUPTION IS AT LEVELS RARELY SEEN BEFORE. CLOSE IT DOWN.”
🚨President Trump on USAID:
“THE CORRUPTION IS AT LEVELS RARELY SEEN BEFORE”
“CLOSE IT DOWN” pic.twitter.com/9Ef3lviUez
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) February 7, 2025
As explained by the BBC, “The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) was set up in the early 1960s to administer humanitarian aid programmes on behalf of the US government.”
It employs around 10,000 people, two-thirds of whom work overseas, according to the Congressional Research Service. It has bases in more than 60 countries and works in dozens of others. However, most of the work on the ground is carried out by other organisations that are contracted and funded by USAID.
The range of activities it undertakes is vast. For example, not only does USAID provide food in countries where people are starving, it also operates the world’s gold-standard famine detection system, which uses data analysis to try to predict where food shortages are emerging.
However, the more the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) digs, the more they have found that our money is not being use for what was intended. Which is exactly why Trump is calling for it to be shut down.