USAID: the Biggest Leadership Scandal in a Century

By | February 7, 2025

[February 7, 2025]  Elon Musk and a team of brilliant young insomniacs invaded the offices of USAID in Washington, D.C. and uncovered the biggest American scandal in at least a century. Thanks to heads-in-the-sand politicians, USAID became a funnel of American taxpayer money to slush funds for Leftist NGOs, journalists, propagandists, and other woke causes.  It turns out that there was no aid going to traditional humanitarian assistance programs.

Under the Biden Administration, USAID was funding worldwide efforts to spread atheism and anti-Americanism. For example, $2 million for “LGBTQ” activism in Guatemala and $2.5 million for DEI indoctrination in Serbia, as White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced this week.  This is just the tip of the DEI iceberg. There was $45 million for DEI scholarships in Burma and $520 million for consultant-driven ESG investments in Africa. The American taxpayers deserve answers.

It also turns out that USAID also paid journalists to do hit pieces on Rudy Giuliani.  More of this money was used to help impeach Donald Trump.  As an example, USAID paid millions to the leftist media Politico, which leaked the Dirty 51 letter just before the 2020 election. As we so often find in all highly corrupted media outlets, Politico has yet to report their malfeasance.  Their readers remain blissfully unaware of the paid propagandists on their staff.

In a New York Post article by Miranda Devine, she is reporting that USAID is involved in Biden’s corruption in Ukraine. As USAID funneled money to the energy firm Burisma – where Hunter Biden was a “board member” – the firm was paying Hunter bribe money. Americans were directly and unknowingly involved in this bribery scheme. And yet one of the last acts of now ex-President Joe Biden was to grant a full pardon for his son’s actions from 2014 to 2025.

This is about the Democrat Party using our tax money to not only fund their woke ideology but also to fund all of their woke friends who are in high-salary positions pushing this ideology, typically on the board of leftist NGOs.

The latest example came out of California, where tens of billions were spent to “cure homelessness.”  People started asking what the heck all these prominent Democrats and journalists are sitting in high-paying board positions (well into six figures), eating up all this money to cure homelessness; all the while, the homelessness problem is getting worse.

Maybe the point of USAID’s spending was not to cure homelessness or to provide humanitarian aid to help starving children but to aggressively fund left-wing ideology and to ensure there were plenty of jobs available for political leftists friends, many with worthless college degrees.

An American political party should not be using our tax dollars to fund their woke ideology but to also pay all their leftist buddies with positions who then offer high-paying board positions to those same politicians who leave their elected seats. The amount of money grossly misused is staggering.

Note: Parts of this article taken from Nick Freitas “Saving a Billion per Day” YouTube series.

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25 thoughts on “USAID: the Biggest Leadership Scandal in a Century

  1. Billy Kenningston

    This is going to go down in history as one of the biggest SCANDALS ever! Plus, all the other “departments” of the US government were supporting left-wing, anti-American groups, and some of those groups were terrorists. USAID needs to be dismantled, and all the employees fired and barred from ever holding a government position. Next, Elon Musk should expose what politicians were paid off and received kickbacks. There are plenty of them out there. No wonder the Democrat Party is freaking out. Their gravy train is over.

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    1. Grover in the Grove

      It’s going to take a long time to dig out the corruption but it’s going to be worth all the effort and expense. Corruption in America is much much deeper than we ever could have imagined and there are plenty of Liberals on the take.

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    2. Kerry

      … and now FEMA:
      “The Federal Emergency Management Agency has mismanaged tens of billions of dollars over the years, according to numerous government reports on its spending. The government agency’s response to COVID, hurricanes, floods and housing migrants have all come under fire for being wasteful and going largely unchecked — and the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been sent in to analyze its spending. The most recent audit of the embattled disaster response agency claimed it mismanaged nearly $10 billion during the COVID pandemic between 2020 and 2023.”
      https://nypost.com/2025/02/11/us-news/femas-troubling-history-of-misspending-taxpayers-cash/

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  2. Desert Cactus

    This is nuts!!!! And now I hear things are getting worse for USAID and employees and contractors are getting laid off. GOOD. But the problem is not just with USAID but with various government agencies like the Dept of Education and the Dept of Defense. Musk is going to be looking into them, and it looks like they were doing something similar, like paying for Politico with kickbacks. Sad state of affairs in America when we have such a high level of corruption. And ordinary folks wonder how politicians can get to be millionaires on a small govt salary.

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  3. Wellington 🕷️

    🕷️ Gross criminal and entitled behavior by leftists 🕷️

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  4. Winston

    DOGE and Elon Musk are under attack by the Progressive Leftists because that’s where the money is for their pet, anti-American, indoctrination, slimy projects. They have used USAID monies for anything they see as a threat, like Donald Trump. It’s no wonder they had to impeach Trump the first time, he was getting too close to the truth.

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    1. The Kid

      The scandal is only going to,get worse as we find out who had their hands in the pot.

      Reply
  5. Public Enemy 🙈

    Listen everybody, Dan Bongino covered this the past two days. He is connecting the Trump impeachment and Guillani prosecution to false articles funded by USAID and several media outlets. Plus, the Ukraine connection is front and center. This is how Joe Biden got his money and the level that he went to do as to hide the bribes Biden took that made his entire family rich. Those Biden pardons are going to stop the congressional and executive investigations. I cant wait.

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  6. Ron C.

    “Tis is just the tip of the DEI iceberg.” — Gen. Doug Satterfield.
    NAILED IT.
    If only Canada and Mexico would do the same.

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    1. American Girl

      We can help Canada, Ron. But you guys have got to get rid of Cuban President Castro’s son first.

      Reply
  7. Crazy Man

    Here are only a few examples of the WASTE and ABUSE:
    $1.5 million to “advance diversity equity and inclusion in Serbia’s workplaces and business communities”
    $70,000 for production of a “DEI musical” in Ireland
    $2.5 million for electric vehicles for Vietnam
    $47,000 for a “transgender opera” in Colombia
    $32,000 for a “transgender comic book” in Peru
    $2 million for sex changes and “LGBT activism” in Guatemala
    $6 million to fund tourism in Egypt
    Hundreds of thousands of dollars for a non-profit linked to designated terrorist organizations — even AFTER an inspector general launched an investigation
    Millions to EcoHealth Alliance — which was involved in research at the Wuhan lab
    “Hundreds of thousands of meals that went to al Qaeda-affiliated fighters in Syria”
    Funding to print “personalized” contraceptives birth control devices in developing countries
    Hundreds of millions of dollars to fund “irrigation canals, farming equipment, and even fertilizer used to support the unprecedented poppy cultivation and heroin production in Afghanistan,” benefiting the Taliban

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    1. Eye Cat

      Ouch ….. and Democrats are going crazy that their pet pedo projects are being exposed.

      Reply
  8. Under the Bridge

    My jaw hit the ground on this corrupt agency. I can see USAID being dismantled completely. Donald Trump and Elon Musk have done the American taxpayer a great service. My hat is off to them.

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    1. Army Captain

      Yeah, its weird watchinq people direct their hate towards people telling them the truth rather than at those who lied to them.

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    2. USA Patriot II

      Yes, Adolf, but there is more, much more to the story. We now have discovered that various members of the Democrat Party were also getting paid and that they were using their political influence to hide these payments and stir up trouble when there was a threat to expose them. “Follow the money.” as Dan Bongino says and he is 1000% right. Let’s keep our heads and don’t believe the first thing we hear or read because the news media is a part of this corruption – corrupt to their core. They are not to be believed. So, keep your powder dry and be prepared to rain hell down on earth once the facts are out. These folks should be prosecuted to the fullest of the law for their corruption.

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      1. ijore

        CORRUPT CORRUPT CORRUPT CORRUPT CORRUPT, did I write CORRUPT often enough? And after seeing Democrats railing against the discovery of USAID’s corruption, I will never vote blue ever again.

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  9. Liz at Home

    Welcome to all the new folks here. Welcome to the very best leadership website. You will learn much. Today’s article is Gen. Doug Satterfield’s way of showing us how NOT to be a leader. Sometimes we need an example of failure and over the coming weeks we are going to see more of this. 👍

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  10. Good Dog

    Gen. Satterfield, I’ve been reading about this for a couple of days and yet the outrage by Democrats that this would be uncovered is itself shocking. But I understand because their gravy train is coming to an abrupt end. This discovery exposes the Democrat Party as a criminal organization. No wonder they’re freaking out because their dark, deep state money is about to dry up and their buddies in the media are getting cut off.

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  11. never at work

    🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
    Makes me disgusted. 🤮🤮🤮

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  12. Randolph_Alterman

    The USAID leadership failure is staggering and will go down in American history and studied for centuries about how a small number of people stole taxpayer money to fund their private ideologies of wokeism and socialism without our citizens knowing about it. They should be tried for fraud – at least – and hopefully sent to jail for many years. How did this corruption get so deep?

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