This week the wrath of DOGE struck again, as Elon Musk sharpened his pencil and focused his attention on USAID, the United States Agency for International Development.  As you may recall, last week Elon Musk identified government programs that long ago had expired, yet unaccountably were still spending millions of tax dollars.  The key word here is unaccountably, because our government has been spending billions for decades without oversight of any kind.

In 2023, USAID distributed some $75 billion to projects worldwide.  Until this week that may have sounded noble.  Then we finally found out where our money was going.  Giving the devil his due, USAID funds legitimate projects such as smallpox inoculation and anti-malaria campaigns.  Other outlays are less useful.

Your hard earned tax dollars have gone to fund DEI in Serbia ($1.1 million); a DEI musical in Ireland; a Trans opera in Colombia; and Trans comic books in Peru.  We gave Egypt $6 million to promote tourism there, while hurricane victims in North Carolina are still living in tents here.  We gave Vietnam $2.5 million to promote electric vehicles.  I thought they already had bicycles.  But in the greater scheme of things those outlays were peanuts.

USAID funded Ukraine to the tune of billions, and sent Ukrainians to Paris for Fashion Week.  You paid Afghanistan hundreds of millions of dollars to irrigate and fertilize poppy fields that produce opium used to manufacture heroin that is sent here to kill Americans.  Some $40 million went to the Wuhan Virus Laboratory to fund Gain of Function research  that was outlawed in the U.S. in 2014.  2014 – wasn’t that the start date for Dr. Fauci’s pardon?  That was money well spent, as it only led to the deaths of about 7 million people worldwide.

This week we were told that the U.S. wastes $236 billion a year on unwarranted payments to dead people and fraudsters. Democrats are content to continue being defrauded, because part of that money goes back to them.  President Trump is not content.  He shut down USAID, sent all its employees home, and put Secretary of State Rubio in charge of the agency.  These actions caused Democrats to lose their minds.

There the Democrats were, on retreat in Maryland, where they were trying to choose a new nonbinary Chairperson for their Party.  They had just agreed that Kamala Harris only lost the election because of racism and sexism, and had reaffirmed their judgment that Trump is Hitler, when the Musk hit the fan, and Trump destroyed their secret USAID slush fund.

Democrats were apoplectic.  They called the actions against USAID “illegal” and a “constitutional crisis” while vowing to take their defense of the agency to the courts.  During a news conference outside USAID headquarters, Rep. Don Beyer of Virginia said, “What Trump and Musk have done is not only wrong, it’s illegal.” “USAID was established by an act of Congress, and it can only be disbanded by an act of Congress. Stopping this will require action by the courts and for Republicans to show up and show courage and stand up for our country.”

Well Don, not so fast.  USAID wasn’t created by Congress, but by a JFK Executive Order in 1961.  Since its inception, USAID has morphed into a clearinghouse for Progressive fantasies, and worse.  On Wednesday, we learned that the employees at the Left leaning political website Politico, which exists solely for the purpose of combating MAGA and supporting Progressive Democrats, had not been paid.  Turns out the money for their paychecks were coming from USAID.  When the USAID payments were frozen, the Politico hacks were left out in the cold.

Dem Representative Jamie Raskin called the halt in USAID funding “a constitutional crisis.”  Enraged Democrats renewed their claims about “a threat to our democracy.”  But the closing of USAID didn’t threaten “our democracy.”  Instead, Trump’s long overdue actions are a threat to their bureaucracy, the secret fourth branch of government that wastes your money no matter who gets elected.

USAID was staffed by Leftists, and permitted to piss away untold billions of your tax dollars on Woke fever dreams all over the world.  Congress would never appropriate funds for Trans comic books and operas, but it doesn’t have to.  USAID just sends them a check.  Congress long ago abandoned its oversight responsibility, so no one was looking.  And even when some troublesome Senator, like Joni Ernst, demanded to see the books, no problem.  USAID stonewalled her, threatened her staff, and kept funding the idiotic programs that put smiles on the faces of Progressive imbeciles.  USAID was a bottomless pit of money, just waiting to be laundered and kicked back to deserving Democrats.

Yet if the USAID malfeasance was limited only to funding Leftist nonsense it wouldn’t be so bad.  It has been reported that USAID long has been a cutout for illegal and off the books activities by our intelligence agencies.  Ever hear about the CIA having a “black budget” beyond the scrutiny of the Congress?   USAID was a convenient deep pocket.

That not bad enough?  How about this.  Two days ago, investigative journalist Michael Shellenberger tied USAID to the 2019 Trump impeachment.  Remember Trump being impeached over a phone call seeking information about Biden family corrupt dealing in Ukraine?  The Russia hoax originated with a media outlet called the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP).  That outlet was funded by, guess who? – USAID.

Trump asked too many questions about Ukrainian money being paid to American politicians, including, but not limited to Biden.  So the USAID/CIA paid OCCRP to smear him, then used the smear to try to oust him from office.  There’s a technical term for that – TREASON.

But USAID is only one of the sources of untraceable money.  Remember all those defunct programs that are somehow still spending your money?  Ever wonder where agencies like the CIA get the money to do things they don’t want the Congress to know about, like funding foreign drug deals, fixing elections, and overthrowing countries?  How about from things like the government continuing to make payments to entities that no longer exist, or from a slush fund like USAID, that had the ability to hide illicit payments among legitimate humanitarian outlays.

Regardless of the primal screams coming from wounded Democrats, Americans should celebrate the fact that at least one President has recognized that we can’t continue to borrow money forever.  And consider that the Democrats who are complaining aren’t trying to justify the ridiculous spending done by USAID.  Instead, their complaint is that Elon Musk has no authority to look at the books.  They much prefer one of the Deep Swamp auditors who have been looking the other way for 50 years.

Trump’s USAID actions were necessary, but they come at a price.  Trump has successfully forced foreign nations to take back their illegal immigrants deported from the U.S.  But making foreign countries fold is the easy part.  The real enemy is within.

Remember Detestable Chuck Schumer’s 2016 warning to Trump that, “When you go after the intelligence community they have six ways to Sunday to get back at you?”  It wasn’t an idle threat.  These are dangerous people who are not above resorting to violence to remove threats to their existence.  JFK could attest to that if they hadn’t killed him.

So, I salute President’s Trump’s efforts to get control of the government Leviathan that threatens to bankrupt the richest nation on Earth, but I worry about him.  He’s already got the Iranians trying to kill him.  He said this week he’s left instructions for the annihilation of Iran should that happen.  The CIA would be harder to deal with.