ANALYSIS: USAID Targeted Foreign Governments and Americans at Home
NEW YORK, February 21 (C-Fam) Many Americans are reeling after the White House Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) revealed in recent weeks that USAID spent hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars to influence foreign elections and instigate revolutions in other countries. They are only now realizing what most of the world already knew.
For decades, the U.S. foreign aid agency has used a variety of social engineering programs to undermine foreign regimes considered hostile to America. These covert political operations were carried out in many countries around the world, and in many cases to effect regime change, under the guise of promoting democracy, gender equality, LGBT rights, climate change and reproductive health.
The Administrator at USAID under the Biden administration, Samantha Power wrote an essay in the prestigious Foreign Affairs journalto explain how every dollar of U.S. foreign aid is leveraged to achieve the desired political results of the U.S. government, including to oppose the rise of “populist parties with xenophobic and antidemocratic tendencies.”
That is why you haven’t heard foreign governments complain about the shutdown of USAID and the sudden interruption of all U.S. programs that are not strictly humanitarian aid like food and health. They know that a large number of the USAID programs that have been shut down are political in nature. Many of those affected by the halt in funds are federally backed journalists and non-governmental organizations.
Many Americans are only now realizing how their taxes were being used. What’s more, they are discovering that their own perceptions about what is happening in the world have been shaped for decades by censorship and even propaganda directed against the American people by federal agencies.
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