Audit USAID..Then Shut It Down! By Ron Paul
(2025-02-06 at 04:24:04 )

Audit USAID..Then Shut It Down! By Ron Paul

As of this writing, when you attempt to access the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) website or social media pages you are informed that, "This site can not be reached." The media reports that the new Trump Administration has not only frozen USAID activities but may be planning on bringing it back under control of the United States State Department. Other reports, including statements by Elon Musk, suggest that it will be closed completely.

If true, the closing of USAID may be one of the most significant changes President Trump has made among many dramatic actions in his first couple of weeks in office.

Many Americans may still have the idea that USAID is a government agency delivering relief at disaster sites overseas. They may still remember the bags of rice or grain with the USAID logo on them. But that is not USAID.

USAID is a key component of the United States governments "regime change" operations worldwide. USAID spends billions of dollars every year propping up "NGOs" overseas that function as shadow governments, eating away at elected governments that the United States interventionists want to overthrow.

Behind most United States foreign policy disasters overseas you will see the fingerprints of USAID. From Ukraine to Georgia and far beyond, USAID is meddling in the internal affairs of foreign countries - something that would infuriate United States of Americans if it was happening to us.

When President Trump ordered a 90 day pause in USAID activities, we quickly learned just how pernicious the agency really is. The United States media reported that Ukrainian press outlets were scrambling to keep their doors open when the United States dollars stopped flowing. It is reported that 90 percent of the media outlets are funded by the United States government!

This means that there is virtually no independent media in Ukraine, only fake news outlets willing to toe the United States Administrations propaganda line. Does anyone think these wholly United States-funded "news" outlets would ever publish a story that the United States government did not want published?

This is plainly immoral, but it is also dangerous. Most United States mainstream media stories about Ukraine have their origins in the "reporting" of the local media.

From battlefield news to casualties to the state of the Ukrainian military, the "news" from Ukraine is being written by United States government-backed media outlets and then picked up by United States and other western media.

It is a closed propaganda loop that not only propagandizes the United States citizen but also feeds false information into United States government outlets - such as Congress - that rely on mainstream United States media reporting for their news on Ukraine.

No wonder so many in Washington,D.C. continue to support this hopeless war!

But USAID is not just in the business of disinformation. Elon Musk recently re-posted a New York Post article on X reporting that USAID funneled $53 million to EcoHealth Alliance to support gain-of-function research on coronaviruses at the Wuhan lab! Did USAID help fund COVID? United States of Americans have a right to know.

In natural catastrophes overseas Americans have shown themselves to be extremely generous. Private volunteer assistance organizations can more effectively assist victims of disasters worldwide.

USAID needs a full and transparent audit. United States of Americans deserve to know exactly what is being done in their name overseas.

Then the agency needs to be shuttered completely, and its employees sent home. That would go a long way toward making the United States of America great again.

Dr. Ron Paul is a former member of Congress and Distinguished Counselor to the Mises Institute.

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