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AZFEC: Arizona’s USAID-Style Slush Funds Need To Be Cut Off

June 17, 2025

By the Arizona Free Enterprise Club |

One of President Trump’s most important campaign promises was to bring accountability and transparency to federal government spending. Under the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), his administration didn’t waste any time getting to work.

Within weeks of Trump’s inauguration, DOGE had uncovered billions of dollars in waste and abuse of taxpayer funds under the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Here are just a few of the ways the Trump administration discovered USAID was spending your tax dollars:

  • $1.5 million to “advance diversity, equity, and inclusion in Serbia’s workplaces and business communities.”
  • $2 million for sex changes and “LGBT activism” in Guatemala.
  • Millions to EcoHealth Alliance — which was involved in research at the Wuhan lab.
  • $1 million to boost French-speaking LGBTQ groups in West and Central Africa through the State Department.
  • $15 million for condoms to the Taliban through USAID.

This list barely scratches the surface of the waste and abuse that was discovered. But now, it appears it’s not just the federal government that’s been throwing your money around to outlandish woke initiatives. Arizona may have its very own USAID scandal…

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