As Democrats and the hard left (yes, I know how redundant this is) rail about President Trump and Elon Musk’s apparent effort to gut USAID, I thought you might be interested to know where the money it has disbursed over the years has actually gone.
For that, we can thank Daniel Greenfield, writing for frontpagemag.com. His latest article details the extents of generosity USAID has provided to terrorist states which hate us and want us, and Israel, dead and forgotten.
You can read Mr. Greenfield’s entire piece by clicking here. But let me show you some of the most salient excerpts:
“It is really, really a sad day in America,” Rep. Ilhan Omar declared at a rally by Democrats outside USAID headquarters protesting President Trump’s reconstruction of the aid agency.
It wasn’t a sad day for America, but it was so for Somalia.
Over the last two years, USAID had funneled $2.3 billion in “humanitarian assistance” to Omar’s native Somalia. Last year it reported a request for $1.6 billion in aid and even with the Biden administration on the way out the door, it sent an additional $29 million in December 2024.
USAID support for Somalia had doubled under the Biden administration and with $3.3 billion from USAID allocated in the last 5 years, the end of the USAID gravy train for the Islamic terrorist state of Somalia must have been a painful blow for Omar, who is very close to the Somali regime. Former Somali Prime Minister Hassan Khaire had reportedly celebrated that “the interest of Ilhan are not Ilhan’s, it’s not the interest of Minnesota, nor is it the interest of the American people, the interest of Ilhan is that of the Somalian people and Somalia.”
USAID boasted of having sent $2.1 billion to Gaza and the West Bank since the Hamas attacks of Oct 7. In 2024 alone, $917 million was programmed for the terrorist areas occupying Israel.
USAID provided over $3.7 billion to Afghanistan since the Taliban took over with $832 million in the previous fiscal year alone. The money was so unaccountable that USAID refused to cooperate with the U.S. Government’s Afghan War watchdog tracking money going to terrorists.
Even while the United States of America was at war with the Houthis, the Iran-backed Islamic terrorist group firing on US Navy vessels, USAID continued to direct billions of dollars to Yemen.
In 2024, USAID announced a $2.7 billion aid request for Yemen and allocated $753 million. In the last 5 years, USAID provided an estimated $3.4 billion in aid to an enemy terror state.
Other Islamic terrorist states that have heavily drawn on USAID include Pakistan which harbored Osama bin Laden, but benefited from $600 million in the last 5 years. While some American towns and cities lacked clean drinking water, USAID labored to build plants for Pakistan’s majority Muslim population even while it engaged in the persecution of Christians.
$3.4 billion was directed to Syria over the past 5 years by USAID even as it was caught in a civil war between Shiite Islamists aligned with Iran and Sunni Islamists aligned with Al Qaeda.
USAID allocated $1.1 billion to spend on Lebanon even as the country was run by Hezbollah.
While USAID is unable to function in Iran, between Yemen, Lebanon, Syria and Iraq, over $8 billion was sent to Iranian puppet regimes even without counting the money spent on Gaza.
In total, USAID had spent some $18.5 billion on Islamic terror states over those 5 years.
Incredible. But apparently true.
And it is far from the entire picture. I urge you to read Mr. Greenfield’s entire piece (here is the link again) and you’ll see there’s plenty more in addition to what you just read. And USAID is not – repeat, NOT – the only agency dumping untold amounts of money in ways average citizens are unaware of and will be infuriated by when they find out.
Incredibly, this is what those hard-left Democrats (and their toadie-in-chief, Chuck Schumer) were screaming about on Wednesday. This is what they were demanding to keep in place. This is what they have put themselves on record as supporting – to, you can bet, the absolute delight of Republican strategists, who are certain to use their rantings in 2026 and beyond.
Last November, voters put Donald Trump back in the Oval Office, and gave Republicans majorities in both houses of congress. That was before most were aware of where these billions and billions of dollars were going. Do you have any doubt that, as this information is made public by Trump & Co., it will be a negative for Democrats (other than the safe-seaters who were ranting on Wednesday) and a boon to Republicans? We are literally watching a hard left Democrat death-spiral.
But there may a silver lining here.
Specifically, it may – I hope you will join me in hoping that does – result in a major housecleaning there, and the re-emergence of the Democrat Party as a viable alternative, rather than a Schumer/Pelosi/”Squad” disaster. That would be good for the party, and good for us.
Keep your fingers crossed.
