Obviously this shit is not gonna stop at the government level. The entire USAID budget is just a drop in the bucket even if it were funding parts of it.
Multi-purpose program, initial being space radar - draw huge grids of metal aerosols and excite them by HAARP, EISCAT and the like, now you have an even bigger antenna than they can fit on earth. Look into gain and phased arrays.
Since the program is already in place, climate modification (past what NEXRAD stations can already do) is not a long stretch.
Perfect delivery mechanism for nanotech bots and all kinds of chemical biowarfare
The black ops hole is deeper than you can imagine and somehow Trump fixes this? Better see some huge results for that to be true…