07/02/2025
Senator John Kennedy:
- The American taxpayers are giving money to Afghanistan;
- [Mr. Musk] found that we are giving money to Yemen;
- He found that we are giving money to Syria;
- He found that the USAID has 10,000 people employees, and every year they give away $40 billion;
- He found that the USAID gave money to support electric vehicles in Vietnam. Our money, taxpayer money;
- He found that the USAID gave money to a transgender clinic in India. “I didn't know that. I bet you the American people didn't know that”;
- He found that USAID gave $1.5 million to a Serbian LGBTQ group, they got $1.5 million to QUOTE, “advanced diversity, equity, inclusion in Serbia's workplaces and business communities”;
- They found that USAID spent $164 million to support radical organizations around the world;
- They gave $122 million of that to groups aligned with foreign terrorist organizations;
- According to this report in Mr. Musk, the USAID has given millions of dollars to quote organizations in Gaza controlled by Hamas;
- He found that we gave $2 million, USAID did, for s*x changes in Guatemala;
- He found that we gave $20 million to produce a new Sesame Street show in Iraq;
- He found that we gave $4.5 million of taxpayer money to combat misinformation in Kazakhstan;
- He found that we gave $10 million, USAID did, of meals to an al-Qaeda-linked terrorist group called the Nusra Front;
- Mr. Musk found that we gave $7.9 million of taxpayer money to a project that would teach Sri Lankan journalists to avoid binary gendered language (the USAID took 8 million bucks and gave it to a bunch of journalists in Sri Lanka to teach them how to avoid binary gendered language);
- USAID gave $1.5 million to promote LGBT advocacy in Jamaica;
- They gave $1.5 million to rebuild the Cuban media ecosystem;
- They gave $1.5 million for quote, art for inclusion of people with disabilities in Belarus;
- Another $3.9 million for LGBT causes in Macedonia;
- $8.3 million for equity and inclusion education in Nepal.
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