President Donald Trump’s second term kicked off with intense scrutiny on federal spending, including shining light on the shrouded United States Agency for International Development (USAID). USAID doles out American taxpayer dollars to the world to the tune of around $40 billion dollars annually, and its budget includes a slate of expenditures that are patently absurd.
Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) headed by Elon Musk, recently shined light onto a bizarre sample of expenditures in a post on X. The list includes $1.5 million in American taxpayer dollars to advance Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in Serbia, $47,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia, and $32,000 for a transgender comic book in Peru.
While these “foreign aid” expenditures are blatant examples of waste, a majority of Americans support cutting foreign aid regardless of its intended purpose.
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