Outspoken U.S. Senator Rand Paul GIves A Presentation-in-Pictures of the Corrupt Lunacy Spending of the U.S. 'Agency for International Development' (USAID)

"Our country is $36 trillion in debt, but we continue to send billions of dollars overseas for projects that are not only useless, but in many instances harmful.

"I've been highlighting this waste every year for a decade, and now DOGE (the new Department of Government Efficiency) has uncovered over a trillion dollars of waste just this past year."

The State Department and USAID (U.S. Agency of International Development) are among the worst offenders to date:

Just a few examples of what "these unelected bureaucrats are spending taxpayers' money on":

• $20m for a Sesame Street show in Iraq
• $87.9m to help Afghans farm poppy crops ("from which opium is extracted; as of 2021, Afghanistan supplied 90% of the world's heroin")
• $330,000 to compile a "disinformation index" to blacklist conservative news outlets
• $54m to initiatives linked to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (the likely origin of "Covid 19")
• $15m to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan to distribute oral contraceptives and condoms
• $4.8m to Ukraine for social media influencers
• $2.1m to Paraguay to enhance THEIR border security
• $6m to promote sustainable tourism in Egypt
• $50m on Tunisia's tourism ("even though it's already the most visited country in Africa")
• Ukranian designers funded to attend Paris fashion show
• $2m on transgender surgeries in Guatemala
• $3m on "girl-centred climate action" in Brazil
• $70,000 to promote a live event to promote DEI in Ireland
• $25,000 to fund a transgender opera in Colombia ("Was nobody in Colombia willing to buy a ticket?")
• $32,000 in Peru on production of a comic featuring a trans hero to feature mental health issues
• $25,000 on a DEI drag theatre in Ecuador . . .

"This is just the tip of the iceberg," said the Senator. "It's just an example of the ideologically misguided and ineffective projects, that we're BORROWING money to fund . . . while our OWN citizens are struggling to put food on their tables."