The Cold War-era agency has long been at the vanguard of American imperialism.
The very future of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) is now in doubt.
At the request of US president Donald Trump, Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have been through USAID’s books. There they claim to have found an organisation funding myriad dubious campaigns and groups around the world. Among many other activities, it’s been backing drag shows in Ecuador and transgender operas in Colombia. It’s dished out $84million to Chelsea Clinton through the Clinton Foundation. It also gave $54million to the controversial NGO, the EcoHealth Alliance, which collaborated with the notorious Wuhan Institute of Virology in ‘gain of function’ experiments that are alleged to have made Covid-19 more transmissible.
USAID packages found among Hezbollah weapons cache in Lebanon: Israeli soldier https://t.co/qzSVx6q47B pic.twitter.com/I8ojMxZ3Bb
— New York Post (@nypost) February 10, 2025
