USAID Called Out By Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano'

USAID called out by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò

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How many Americans even knew what USAID was until this week? I’m guessing less than one percent. 

For the uninformed: USAID was started by President John F. Kennedy in 1961. Officially named the United States Agency for International Development, it spends over $40 billion in taxpayer dollars every year on various initiatives overseas; most of which are a complete waste of money, as Elon Musk and others have pointed out in recent days. See here:  

USAID expenditures over the last few years:

- $20 million on a Sesame Street show in Iraq - $56 million to boost Egyptian and Tunisia tourism - $40 million to build schools in Jordan - $150k for Korean kids to visit DC - $11 million to tell Vietnamese to stop burning trash

Whatever good intentions Kennedy may have had for the program, it has morphed into a slush fund for the Deep State to spread wokeism and to spark revolutions in countries that resist its tyrannical decrees. All of this is done in the name of “defending democracy” mind you. 

Under Joe Biden, USAID was run by World Economic Forum functionary Samantha Powers, who weaponized the agency to funnel boatloads of cash to Ukraine, among other futile projects.   

That fact was pointed out by Balázs Orbán, the son of Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, on X this week. 

In Hungary, we’ve seen it all before:

In Hungary, we’ve seen it all before:

€7.3M in illicit foreign funding funneled into the 2022 opposition campaign via Soros-backed ‘Action for Democracy.’

@SamanthaJPower

visited Budapest to meet LGBTQ activists & push “locally-driven initiatives” to help “independent” media thrive.

NED has been bankrolling opposition media & NGOs for years, and now Victoria Nuland—who once handed Hungary a 2-page ultimatum, demanding changes to our domestic policies & constitution in exchange for “good relations”—sits on the NED Board. Good riddance!

President Trump has had enough of this. In his continued effort to drain the swamp, he signed an executive order empowering the newly created Department of Governmental Efficiency to dismantle USAID. 

“I love the concept, but they turned out to be radical left lunatics,” he said about the agency in the Oval Office on Monday.   

USAID’s website has already been shut down, and many of its liberal employees have been fired or barred from entering its headquarters in D.C., causing Democrats to hold a rally outside of it; because nothing shows the American people that you care about them more than defending a program designed to spend their money in foreign lands. Talk about being out of touch.  

Oddly enough, left-wing Jesuit priest James Martin also defended the agency by claiming that Jesus would support it as well. He was rightly called out by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò on X.  

Woe to you, hypocritical scribes and Pharisees

Are the USAID-funded Wuhan labs designed to engineer Covid "poor"? Are Soros-sponsored USAID-sponsored movements for color revolutions in Ukraine, Georgia, Hungary, Serbia, Romania "poor"? Are the NGOs that speculate on the trafficking of illegal immigrants "poor"? Woe to you, hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, who resemble whitewashed sepulchers: they are beautiful to look at on the outside, but inside they are full of dead people's bones and every kind of putridity. So also you appear righteous on the outside before men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity (Mt 23:27-28). Without resorting to the parable of the rich man and poor Lazarus, there is a Gospel passage that fits much better with the conflicts of interest of USAID-subsidized "charities": Then Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples, who was later to betray him, said, "Why did not this fragrant oil sell for three hundred denarii and then give it to the poor?" This he said, not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief, and because he kept the chest, he took what they put in it (Jn 12:4-6).

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