Within the annals of asinine USAID funding now bursting into public view below Trump administration scrutiny, the $50-billion-a-year United States Company for Worldwide Improvement’s efforts to make the world secure for Queerocracy ring significantly perverse.
For a window into these most colourful of efforts, contemplate the cool million bucks you the taxpayer dedicated in an award for an LGBTQI program adviser you in all probability didn’t know you wanted.
The $969,821 award’s recipient is a longtime activist named Stephen Leonelli.
Curiously, the awardee is now listed as “undisclosed” on the USA Spending web site. And Leonelli eliminated his LinkedIn profile after The Submit contacted him.
As per his title, Leonelli was tasked with supporting the hub’s applications “defending the human rights of lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex people” globally.
This, in accordance with an August 2021 USAID weblog put up, included:
* Efforts leading to Bangladesh including a 3rd gender choice in its 2021 nationwide census.
* Supporting “gender affirming healthcare” in South Africa, together with clinics administering “hormone substitute remedy.”
* “Lowering transgender discrimination and advocating for authorized gender recognition in Kosovo.”
* “Growing LGBTQI+ political participation” in Guatemala.
* Making a toolkit “to boost safety protections for LGBTQI+ organizations within the Center East and North Africa.”
Social-media posts counsel Leonelli continued these actions below the USAID award that began in August 2022.
Why would American tax {dollars} be spent on such applications?
Or on a transgender comedian ebook in Peru and opera in Colombia to thousands and thousands of {dollars} for intercourse modifications and LGBT advocacy from Guatemala to the western Balkans — all USAID applications now uncovered by the brand new administration?
These outlandish objects in some methods function a rainbow-colored distraction from USAID’s arguably extra disastrous efforts, with funds in the end touchdown within the arms of terrorist teams just like the Taliban or funneled to the doubtless COVID-originating Wuhan lab.
Even these outrages solely additional function a veneer, diverting our gaze from the fact which may clarify why Democratic lawmakers and their like-minded Ruling Class allies are actually in a tizzy over USAID’s reorganization: The ostensible foreign-aid company has collectively served as a slush fund offering billions of {dollars} to left-wing nongovernmental organizations, together with Censorship-Industrial Advanced cogs, contractors and alleged regime-change/color-revolution and intelligence operations overseas.
Have American taxpayers for years been funding what primarily quantities to a “nongovernmental” administrative state within the type of these NGOs?
To what extent have the politicians supportive of all this funding obtained kickbacks, together with from the private-sector contractor recipients of huge gobs of largesse?
These are simply a few of the questions for which we deserve solutions.
And that we now have to ask them completely explains why this company wanted to be gutted.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has stated USAID has largely been unaccountable and refuses to be forthcoming.
In asserting Monday he had been named performing director of the company, Rubio asserted that “we owe the American individuals the peace of mind that each greenback we’re spending overseas is being spent on one thing that furthers our nationwide curiosity.”
By Tuesday evening, USAID’s web site famous that by week’s finish, all USAID direct-hire personnel could be positioned on administrative depart.
Important features, Rubio has indicated, will persist. Overseas assist broadly, he confused, have to be “in furtherance of and aligned with the nationwide curiosity and overseas coverage of the US.”
That is what a republican authorities conscious of its individuals is meant to appear like.
The cries of self-styled “democracy defenders” furious over the Trump administration’s efforts to reassert the American individuals’s management over our authorities has revealed simply how hole and cynical their whole democracy-eroding venture has been.
Benjamin Weingarten is a contributor at RealClearInvestigations.
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