President Trump’s war on waste just landed a knockout punch. The administration is slashing nearly 15,000 grants worth a jaw-dropping $60 billion at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)—and the D.C. establishment is panicking.
USAID, the bloated foreign aid slush fund that has shoveled taxpayer cash into corrupt regimes, woke programs, and globalist pet projects, is finally getting the reckoning it deserves. Trump has long despised the agency, calling its leadership “radical lunatics” and demanding an end to taxpayer-funded nonsense that does nothing for Americans. And now, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is helping deliver the death blow.
The numbers speak for themselves. 90% of USAID’s multi-year contracts are getting axed—that’s $54 billion vaporized overnight. On top of that, $4.4 billion in State Department grants are going down with it. Thousands of USAID staffers have already been given their walking papers, some leaving D.C. with boxes scrawled with anti-Trump messages—a fitting end for bureaucrats who spent their careers burning through tax dollars.
But the real scandal isn’t just the waste—it’s where the money was going. Sen. Joni Ernst recently exposed USAID’s greatest hits, including:
- $20 million to make a Sesame Street show in Iraq
- $1.5 million to push diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in Serbia
- $900,000 to a Gaza-based terror-linked “charity”
And those are just the programs we know about. USAID has become a piggy bank for globalist grifters, funneling billions into leftist NGOs while Americans struggle to afford groceries and gas. The agency was set up in the 1960s to deliver aid to the world’s poorest regions—but in reality, it’s become a front for corruption, political activism, and failed social experiments.
Enter Elon Musk, who has been brutally honest about USAID’s dysfunction. Calling it “a ball of worms”, Musk made it clear—you can’t fix something this rotten. And Trump agrees, moving to gut the agency to just 300 staffers from its bloated 8,000-person workforce.
This historic purge comes on the heels of Trump’s 90-day foreign aid freeze, a move that triggered lawsuits from left-wing NGOs desperate to keep the gravy train running. But the Supreme Court handed Trump a major win, pausing a federal judge’s order that tried to force the administration to release $2 billion in foreign aid funds.
Now, the globalist elites are panicking. The State Department memo justifying the cuts called USAID’s spending “decades of institutional drift”—which is just bureaucratic code for “we’ve been wasting your money for years.” And yet, Democrats are in full meltdown mode, claiming that foreign aid is “necessary to save lives”—never mind that it’s also been used to fund terrorism, gender studies, and leftist propaganda worldwide.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, now acting director of USAID, has been leading the charge, making it clear that Trump’s America First agenda is non-negotiable. The era of sending billions overseas while Americans suffer at home is over.
If Trump’s first term was about exposing the Deep State, his second term is about demolishing it. USAID is just the first domino to fall. Next up? The rest of the bloated D.C. bureaucracy.
