Due to worries that USAID is reportedly utilizing public funds to promote “wokeism” abroad, Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) proposed a measure on Tuesday to disband the organization.
Gaetz used a Heritage Foundation study from the previous year in a press release to demonstrate how the organization was funding “leftist activism” abroad with money from American tax payers. The measure would prevent any federal monies from being “made available” to the agency, forcing it to stop performing its authorized duties, as first reported by the Daily Caller.
Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Andy Biggs (R-AZ), Eli Crane (R-AZ), and Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) are the measure’s co-sponsors. The bill lists multiple instances of USAID promoting “leftist ideology.”
Additionally, the organization has granted money to different communist charities using tax resources.
In conjunction with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, it was disclosed in April that USAID intended to donate up to $50 million to advance “digital gender equality” in Africa and other parts of the world.
As a separate federal organization, USAID is charged with advancing American national security, advancing global health, delivering humanitarian aid, and supporting international stability. President John F. Kennedy’s executive order that established it in 1961.
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He proposed disbanding the agency. It has already destroyed itself.