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The Republican Senator in Iowa Johnny Ernest published a list of projects and programs that says that the United States Agency for International Development (the United States Agency for International Development) helped to finance it over the years, with a highlight of it as a “wasteful and dangerous spending” that attracted the taxpayers even Ministry of Governmental efficiency (Doug) interfered.
“From converting tax dollars to risky research in Wuhan to sending Ukrainians to the Paris Fashion Week, the US International Development Agency is one of the worst criminals in waste in Washington … all over the world,” Ernest published to X on Monday before It comes out of a handful of examples.
Ernst highlighted that the agency “authorized a huge amount of $ 20 million to create a Sesame Street in Iraq.”
According to the Biden Administration, the US Agency for International Development granted $ 20 million to a non -profit organization called Sesame Workshop To produce an offer called “AHLAN SIMSIM ARAQ” in an attempt to “enhance inclusion, mutual respect and understanding through ethnic, religious and sectarian groups.”
“While Iraq is recovering from years of conflict, societies are fighting to find a new sense of normal life while physical and emotional wounds remain,” says a hospital link on the American Agency for International Development. “The legacy of Iraq’s struggle with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) left many children without a stable house or displacement, especially from Iraqi and religious minorities. In addition, Iraqi youth, who make up more than half of the population, are unable to find jobs in Economy is tense by war and corruption, which creates weaknesses in extremism. ”
The US International Development Agency website has been suspended this week as Doge and Tech Billionaire Elon Musk Put the agency under a microscope.
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The show is designed such as “Sesame Street”, which is a photographer here, and a financing was granted that started in 2021 and continues until 2027, according to the Usaid archive. (Getty Images)
The show is designed like the American “Sesame Street”, and the financing that started in 2021 was granted and continues until 2027, according to the website that was achieved. The show continues in the air in the Middle East, and it is a review of its website.
In another example, Ernst highlighted, the United States Agency for International Development was found to provide millions of dollars to farmers in Afghanistan in an attempt to make them cultivate food instead of poppy fields and opium.
However, the plan has led to adverse results and led to an increase in poppy production, and thus opium production, during the war in Afghanistan.
“During the height of the war in Afghanistan, the United States Agency for International Development spent millions of dollars to help Afghans cultivate crops instead of opium,” was published in X Monday. “Results: Opion population cultivation has doubled almost all over the country, according to the United Nations.”
The American Agency for International Development, as well as the US military, prompted farmers to build or rehabilitate miles from irrigation channels in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, during the Obama administration in an attempt to persuade farmers to develop other fruits and plants, Washington Post mentioned in 2019. But farmers used channels to grow poppy.
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Puch production was almost doubled during the Afghan war, despite the efforts made by the United States to reduce its growth. (Getty Images)
Poppy production has almost doubled in the region between 2010 and 2014, according to the Post newspaper, citing the United Nations figures.
In another example, Ernest said that the American Agency for International Development spent two million dollars to finance “Moroccan pottery chapters and promotion”. Morocco has created for thousands of years of pottery, dating back to 6000 BC
The former Republican Senator in Oklahoma, Tom Cuborn, who died in 2020, was published Government “Waste Book” in 2012 In detail, the US Agency for International Development “started to follow a four -year plan to improve the economic competitiveness of Morocco” that begins in 2009, which included $ 27 million in financing.
Part of the funding was directed to the “guaranteeing Moroccan training to create and design pottery for sale in local and international markets,” according to the report.
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Morocco has created for thousands of years of pottery, dating back to 6000 BC (Jorge Fernandez)
However, the American pottery coach, who was appointed to teach local artists, was unable to communicate with them as a translator for the program “Not fluent in English”, according to the waste book.
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“The American pottery coach has been contracted to provide several weeks of training lessons for local artists to improve their methods and teach them how to make pottery that can be provided to the market successfully,” I mentioned the waste book. “Unfortunately, the translator who was appointed to the sessions was not fluent in English and was not able to transfer large parts of the lectures to the participants.”
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The American Agency for International Development has transferred nearly a million dollars into Patti's research in Coronav Viruses at the famous Wuhan Institute in China, “and Senator Johnny Ernest claims,” The CIA recognizes the potential source of Covid-19. “ (Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images)
In another example, Ernest added that the United States Agency for International Development “has transferred nearly a million dollars into Patek's research on Corona viruses at the famous Wuhan Institute in China, which recognizes the CIA was the potential source of Covid-19.”
The Governmental Accountability Office published a report in 2023 found that both the United States Agency for International Development and National Health Institutes directed taxpayers money to American universities and a non -profit organization before the money found its way to Chinese groups, including the Wuhan Institute for Virus.
The report found that between 2014 and 2021, American taxpayers' funds were redirected to entities, including the Wuhan Institute for Viruses, Wuhan University and the Academy of Military Medical Sciences, which is part of the Chinese Communist Party. All three groups received more than two million dollars combined from the United States government “through seven subawards”, according to the report.
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The report says: “The chosen entities are governmental institutions or laboratories in China that do work on infectious diseases, including epidemic viruses, and they had measures taken by federal agencies to address safety or security concerns,” the report says. “All the three Chinese entities received money.”
In January, the CIA under the second Trump administration issued an updated rating on Covid-19 origins, in favor of the theory that the infectious disease was due to laboratory leakage. The CIA previously confirmed that it had not had enough evidence to conclude whether Covid had arisen in a laboratory or “wet market” in Wuhan, China.
In the X thread, Ernest claimed that the American Agency for International Development also provided money to enhance tourism to Lebanon and send Ukrainian models to the Fashion Week.
She wrote: “The agency has spent two million dollars in promoting tourism to Lebanon, a nation that warns the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to travel to” because of crime, terrorism, civil unrest, kidnapping, uninterrupted landmines and the danger of armed conflict. ”
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October 2024 Fashion Week in Paris. (Krysty Sparow/Wireimage)
“The American Agency for International Development spends money as if it was out of fashion, literally,” she wrote. “The commercial assistance of Ukraine was paid for models and designers to take trips to New York City, London Fashion Week and the Paris Fashion Week and South West in Austin.”
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Trump administration And Doug, led by Musk, put the United States Agency for International Development in the fire line during the weekend, where Dogs continues to tear government agencies to strip them of excessive spending and corruption.
Foreign Minister Marco Rubio stated that he is now the Acting Director of the American Agency for International Development, and he told the media on Monday that the agency must be compatible with Trump's “first” policies, which include the increasing scrutiny of the distribution of taxpayer funds abroad.
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Elon Musk, President of Dougi, is leading an investigation into the U.S. Agency for International Development, where the agency is reaching a dead end. (Getty Images)
Meanwhile, Musk criticized the agency as “the nest of the radical Marxists who hate America”, and they reported in a voice message only on X overnight on Sunday that “we are in the process of” closing the American Agency for International Development “and according to what was reported, Trump agreed To close the agency.
Democrats have criticized the Trump administration's efforts on the United States Agency for International Development. Representative Ilhan Omar, Di Min, accused Trump of starting a dictatorship while protesting outside the US International Development Agency headquarters on Monday.
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“It is a truly sad day in America. We are witnessing a constitutional crisis,” Omar said. “We talked about our desire to be a dictator on the first day. Here we are. This is what appears to be the beginning of the dictatorship when you do the constitution, and to prove yourself as a single authority. This is how dictators are made.”
This report in Brock Singman from Fox News Digitter and Citelin Cancel contributed.