US President Donald Trump’s administration on Wednesday revealed details of how the United States Agency For International Development (USAID) funded “ridiculous” projects over the years. This comes a month after Mr Trump issued an executive order to re-evaluate and realign US foreign aid with the new administration’s policy and put a 90-day pause on foreign aid.
According to the documents, USAID funded $500 thousand to solve sectarian violence in Israel, just 10 days before the October 7, 2023, attack by Hamas that killed at least 1,200 people. It also gave $5 million to EcoHealth Alliance – one of the key NGOs funding bat virus research at the Wuhan lab.
At least $10 million worth of USAID-funded meals were sent to an Al Qaeda-linked terrorist group, the Trump administration said.
The documents further revealed that the USAID funded millions of dollars to countries for LGBT groups and their activism – a topic that Mr Trump is trying to discard from the US.
The funds include: $7.9 million to teach Sri Lankan journalists how to avoid “binary-gendered language”, $2 million for sex changes and LGBT activism in Guatemala, $1.1 million to an Armenian LGBT group, $1.5 million to promote LGBT advocacy in Jamaica, $2 million to promote LGBT equality through entrepreneurship in Latin America, $3.9 million for LGBT causes in the Western Balkans, $5.5 million for LGBT activism in Uganda, $6 million for advancing LGBT issues in priority countries around the world, and $6.3 million for men who have sex with men in South Africa.
LGBT is a concept that Donald Trump is trying to banish from the United States. After being sworn in for his second term, he said that there are only women and men in America.