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Anonymous ID: 7e8864 March 2, 2025, 6:28 p.m. No.22690614   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>0834 >>0956 >>1015

If it wasn’t for Elon Musk’s DOGE. We wouldn’t know any of this about USAID

 

Michael Shellenberger testifying before the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

 

Senator Joni Ernst “Why is USAID so secretive about how it spends billions of taxpayer dollars? Is it to avoid the public outrage over the waste, or is there something more nefarious there?”

 

Michael Shellenberger “Obviously, this example you just gave, the Wuhan pseudovirology — The fact it appears that the U.S. government funded the creation of the virus that caused the global pandemic.”

 

“USAID has been out of control for decades. There's no shortage of questionable USAID projects:

 

For Example

 

  • $20 million grant to the Sesame Workshop nonprofit to create an Iraqi version of Sesame Street

  • More than $9 million intended for civilian food and medical supplies in Syria ended up in the hands of violent terrorists

  • $27 million was designated to so-called reintegration gift bags, which may even include a Barbie doll for deported Central Americans

  • There was also $68,000 awarded for dance classes in none other than Wuhan, China

 

And after being stonewalled by USAID for years, I learned funds meant for economic relief in Ukraine were instead paying for Ukrainian models and designers to attend fashion weeks in New York City, London, and Paris”

 

“USAID is notorious for exploiting legal loopholes as my COVID-19 origins investigations exposed. By law, all federal spending is required to be publicly available on usaspending. gov. We've known for a while that Dr. Fauci used NIH funding to finance bat coronavirus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

 

But it took the watchdog white coat waste project to expose evidence that USAID was funding it too. In fact, the bulk of the money came from USAID. Yet no grants to the Chinese lab appeared on USASpending. gov. It was hidden from the public through layers of unreported subgrants and subawards.”

 

“We also know that President Barack Obama had banned that research and that Anthony Fauci had created a workaround to get around that and move that research to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”

 

More notable discoveries, USAID funded:

 

  • Trump Impeachment Allegations: Shellenberger asserted that USAID, alongside the CIA, played a role in the 2019 impeachment of President Donald Trump

 

  • Digital ID Program: He highlighted a USAID initiative promoting digital IDs that link bank accounts to social media profiles

 

  • Censorship and Information Operations: Shellenberger accused USAID of spending heavily on “information control”

 

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