by Virginia Allen at The Daily Signal
America’s foreign aid programs have often failed to place U.S. interests first, or have even worked contrary to U.S. interests, according to The Daily Signal’s Tyler O’Neil, author of “The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government.”
“The Left’s dark money network has deep ties to [the United States Agency for International Development],” which has rightly received renewed scrutiny under [the Department of Government Efficiency] and after Elon Musk shined a light on it,” O’Neil said while testifying Wednesday before the House Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency.
"The Left’s dark money network has deep ties to USAID, which has rightly received renewed scrutiny after @DOGE and @elonmusk shined a light on it."@Tyler2ONeil testifies before the DOGE Subcommittee at today's hearing. pic.twitter.com/FhlA81Mfdx
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The House panel’s hearing, titled “America Last: How Foreign Aid Undermined U.S. Interests Around the World,” examined the use of taxpayer funds, which the subcommittee’s chairwoman, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., says USAID has misused to further left-wing ideologies abroad.
“The Democrat-run USAID should not get to use our federal government, our U.S. taxpayer dollars, as their party piggy bank to push their radical agenda in countries that we have no business giving money to,” Greene said in her opening statement.
The government has forced the “American people to pay for the demise of their own country,” Rep. Michael Cloud, R-Texas, said at Wednesday’s hearing.
“We’ve seen this a number of times, especially in how foreign aid is treated,..
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