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Politico issued an emergency “Note to Our Readers” on Thursday about evidence uncovered by Team Doge that Politico has been paid at least $8 million indirectly via high priced government agency subscriptions to its Politico Pro service.

Bizarrely in the entire note the agency at the center of the scandal dares not mention its name. Yes, you will not see the word “USAID” even once in the note issued by Politico’s CEO Goli Sheikholeslami and Global Editor-in-Chief John F. Harris.

America’s foreign aid agency, USAID, has given nearly $800 million to a group that has pushed censorship and suppressed “heteronormativity” across the globe, according to documents reviewed by The Federalist.

It keeps getting worse – the US Treasury issues ONE BILLION a week in suspect payments and that’s a conservative estimate.

To be clear, what the @DOGE team and @USTreasury have jointly agreed makes sense is the following:

– Require that all outgoing government payments have a payment categorization code, which is necessary in order to pass financial audits. This is frequently left blank, making…

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 8, 2025

H/T DS

The field of development economics ignores all the factors that make free-market countries successful — while lining the personal pockets of its advocates.

In 2007 New York City-based professor and economist William Easterly published his intentionally provocative book, White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good. In it, he argued that after more than half a century of Western aid to the “third world,” there was no positive correlation between the amount of money given and a rise in a recipient nation’s GDP.

This was followed by another book in 2014 by the same author called The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor. In this book, he carried his argument even further by pointing out that one of the main reasons that so many third-world countries were still “developing” is that Western experts have invented a field called “development economics.”

America’s foreign aid agency could see its staff slashed from about 10,000 to fewer than 300 globally as the Trump administration makes major cuts to government spending.

All but a handful of essential staff are already set to be placed on administrative leave at midnight on Friday, including thousands based abroad. An online notice says a plan is being prepared for return travel and the termination of non-essential contractors.

One union representing employees – which is involved in a legal challenge to the plan – told the BBC’s US partner CBS News that just 294 staff have been deemed essential.

USAID is a scam of almost unbelievable scale.

Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) hit an unexpected roadblock today when a federal judge in Massachusetts temporarily blocked its signature initiative mere hours before deadline. Yet even with this judicial intervention, the programme has already achieved something remarkable: convincing tens of thousands of federal employees to voluntarily resign. While falling well short of the administration’s ambitious target of 100,000 to 200,000 departures, these 40,000 resignations represent the largest voluntary exodus from federal service in America’s post-war history. Even as the White House denies reports that it’s drafting orders to cut thousands more workers from health agencies, America’s vast bureaucratic apparatus is facing one of the biggest shake-ups in its history.

In popular culture, the word ‘apocalypse’ means ‘the end of the world,’ as portrayed in the Book of Revelation. But etymologically, it comes from the Greek word meaning ‘unveiling.’ What Donald Trump is doing to the unelected NGO-cracy in Washington now is an apocalypse in both senses of the term. His team, led by Elon Musk, is uncovering massive state funding, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), of NGOs and activist groups that serve as de facto arms of globalism, and destroying them by taking their taxpayer money away.

Most Americans have never heard of USAID, and if they have, imagine that it is a humanitarian agency dedicated to providing disaster relief and doing things like helping poor Africans build hospitals and water wells. And some of its massive budget ($40 billion in 2023) does go to worthy projects like that.

Our government spent over $10 million in taxpayer dollars on creating transgender mice, rats, and monkeys

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