USAID Website Goes Dark, Two Senior Officials Placed on Leave as DOGE Audit Begins
EcoHealth Alliance, the organization that partnered with China to bring us covid, was funded by USAID. It is certainly a chilling example of the agency running amok, but it isn’t likely the only one.
At the end of last week, the website of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) was taken offline as the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), spearheaded by Elon Musk, began a deep dive into the fiscal morass of that agency.
As a reminder, USAID is supposedly an independent government agency responsible for administering civilian foreign aid and development assistance. Established in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy’s executive order, it is one of the largest official aid agencies globally, with a budget of over $50 billion.
USAID operates in more than 100 countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe. Theoretically, its primary mission is to partner to end extreme poverty and promote resilient, democratic societies while advancing U.S. security and prosperity.
Americans are concerned it has become a slush fund for pet projects and policies that fail to promote the best interests of this country.
USAID was created by Executive Order by President John F. Kennedy in 1961.
Agencies in the Executive Branch can be eliminated by subsequent executive orders. 🤷♀️https://t.co/UYK2WWwO3u currently looks like this: pic.twitter.com/WvHR2DfSWM
— Jenn Cheng (@THATJennCheng) February 1, 2025
The move to dig into USAID directly resulted from President Trump’s Executive Order on Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid. Therefore, USAID and its books are fascinating to DOGE, and the team has spent the weekend trying to unravel some of the funding complexities and identify accountability gaps.
To begin with, DOGE was granted access to US Treasury databases and full access to the federal payment system.
Next, senior USAID officials quickly experienced the consequences of Trump’s executive orders and the DOGE team’s scrutiny of its finances.
Two top security officials at the US Agency for International Development were put on administrative leave Saturday night after attempting to refuse officials from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency access systems at the agency, even after DOGE personnel threatened to call law enforcement, multiple sources familiar told CNN.
According to sources, personnel from the Musk-created office physically tried to access the USAID headquarters in Washington, DC, and were stopped. The DOGE personnel demanded to be let in and threatened to call US Marshals to be allowed access, two of the sources said.
The DOGE personnel wanted to gain access to USAID security systems and personnel files, three sources said. Two of those sources also said the DOGE personnel wanted access to classified information, which only those with security clearances and a specific need to know are able to access.
Meanwhile, Musk’s social media this weekend has been a steady revelation of what the team has uncovered so far.
For example, the agency appears to have paid for propaganda.
USAID has been paying media organizations to publish their propaganda https://t.co/L3rXRt3yxy
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 2, 2025
It looks like Americans have been paying for Afghan farmers to grow….opium.
Good question https://t.co/c2b3W7gtL4
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 2, 2025
Many US cities have been struggling to remove prosecutors supported by billionaire George Soros, for both their incompetence and their general criminal-favoring enforcement using their twisted sense of the rule of law.
Good question https://t.co/H3XwfNlFO4
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 2, 2025
But, for me, perhaps the most shocking was the agency’s connection to EcoHealth Alliance, the organization that worked with the Chinese scientists to create the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Did you know that USAID, using YOUR tax dollars, funded bioweapon research, including COVID-19, that killed millions of people? https://t.co/YVwyKA7ifs
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 2, 2025
In 2013, EcoHealth Alliance received a three-year, $2 million grant from USAID to address land use alteration as a driver of disease emergence and climate change in Asia.
In other words, a non-governmental organization (NGO) reaped millions in our tax dollars in the name of “science” using two popular globalist phrases: “disease emergence” and “climate change.”
EcoHealth Alliance, a nonprofit organization that focuses on local conservation and global health issues, announced the award of a three-year, $2 million award to address land use alteration as a significant driver of both disease emergence and climate change in Asia. The funding for the new program was awarded by U.S. Agency for International Development, Regional Development Mission for Asia (RDMA).
Over 60 percent of emerging infectious diseases over the past six decades-from SARS to pandemic H1N1 and HIV-have originated in animals, with nearly half linked to land use change, agricultural intensification, or changes in food production. Land alterations accelerate the pace and diversity of human and animal contact, enabling pathogens to spill over from animal populations, a first spark in the chain of events that ignite global pandemics.
I would assert that allowing scientists to conduct gain-of-function research on viruses without proper biosafety containment would be a more significant driver of global pandemics.
Furthermore, EcoHealth Alliance was also part of USAID’s PREDICT program, which ran for 10 years prior to 2019, focusing on identifying and increasing capacity to respond to new and emerging disease threats…like the ones it created.
In September 2022, a group of U.S. Senators led by Roger Marshall (KS-R) demanded that USAID suspend its taxpayer-funded financial awards to EcoHealth Alliance due to concerns about the organization’s noncompliance with federal grant requirements and its involvement in potentially risky virus research. This year, that group’s funding was permanently blocked by the Dept. of Health and Human Services.
EcoHealth Alliance is certainly a chilling example of USAID running amok, but it isn’t likely the only one.
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I’ve been saying from the beginning that DOGE needs to hire every competent forensic accountant in the country and sic them on everything.
DoD has failed seven consecutive audits. Nobody in D.C. or Congress bats an eye at this shameful fact.
Extend the same profligacy, lack of internal accounting controls and lack of transparency/accountability to all the other federal agencies, sub-agencies and departments, and, it becomes appallingly clear why the U.S. is running massive budget deficits and is in hock to creditors for ~$35 trillion.
The US Government needs a colonoscopy, without anesthesia.
I have had a colonoscopy without anesthesia.
It is uncomfortable and weird, but not painful.
The doctor described what he was seeing in the video, live.
Maybe he meant a colectomy?
Actually, it needs an ENEMA.
Postpone tax deadline this year. Otherwise those guys are all busy until April.
Even though this is just coming to light, the depth of corruption is just breathtaking even for a cynical old b@$tsrd such as myself.
People need to go to prison.
USAID sounds like a dark, mega slush-fund accountable only to unelected bureaucrats. Among other things, you have to wonder if any of these taxpayer funds became (or resulted in) campaign contributions.
Why not? I have always thought that the hundreds of billions spent on Climate Change should be looked at as a money laundering scheme, with the party getting the money arranging for some to be donated to the Democrats.
“accountable only to unelected bureaucrats”
Worse than that, its activities include functioning as a front for the CIA’s operations branch. In that role, it’s accountable to no one.
It funds such a hodge-podge of things, whose protagonists have such varied (and opposing) intentions, that it seems to be just one big ol’ piggy-bank for nefarious activities.
The fact that there is classified data at USAID is a clear indication that it’s involved in direct operations of a political/paramilitary nature. No other reason for data concerning US aid to be classified but to protect classified programs being run by the likes of the CIA.
I suspect that a lot of document shredding and fund transfers have been happening duing the past few days.
Yup.
Well, they were doing that back in the 60s…why would it have changed?
It speaks volumes about the vile, evil and stupid Dhimmi-crat apparatchiks’ lawlessness, arrogance and contempt for the electorate’s will, that they think that the Leviathan of federal bureaucracy is a sacrosanct thing that cannot and should not be scrutinized, streamlined or downsized.
This is precisely why the Deep State/D.C. Swamp denizens (nearly all of them Dhimmi-crats, naturally) are so terrified of #47 and see him as an existential threat. It’s because they know he and his team are deadly serious about shining a disinfecting light on the shameful profligacy, waste and corruption that are intrinsic to the federal bureaucracy, agencies and departments. They are scared of the skeletons coming out of the closet and being revealed to the voting public, because so much of the stuff that these agencies and programs fund, domestically and abroad, is ill-conceived and indefensible nonsense.
Where is the street muscle advocating larger-than-state issues going to go without financing?
Are you aware of USAID’s role as a front for the CIA’s operations branch? That used to matter to liberals. In fact, they (rightly) criticized George Bush the Second for using USAID in that way. Why are they the CIA’s biggest defenders now, and why haven’t they been denouncing the CIA’s involvement in USAID?
I’m so old I remember when Hollywood movies hinted at this stuff and considered it evil.
When I’ve told young liberals about the 1975 Church Committee hearings on the CIA, etc., they’ve been outraged — at Sen. Frank Church. 😟
I’m waiting for the post describing how the lionized, female Black Hawk pilot’s (who slammed into a passenger jet, killing all onboard) name was only released after she and her entire family had their entire social profile history removed. All news stories and commentary here have one thing in common- the female pilot who slammed into the jet is the only person who could not be at fault.
Feminism trumps D.E.I. apparently.
Where was the male in charge, the instructor? He didn’t notice that she was flying the wrong path at the wrong altitude? Where was the air traffic control when asking if the helicopter saw the AA jet? Why didn’t the controller id the plane giving the speed and direction to make sure that everyone was on the same page?
Have you any idea how twisted your thought process is? You ask, given multiple suboptimal conditions, how can one assign blame to the poor girl? A moral adult asks, if institutional DEI were not in place, would it be more likely that the inevitable male pilot would have better avoided the collision, even given those unfavorable conditions?
It is a very sick, twisted, indoctrinated psyche, whose first instinct is to pounce on how blame cannot be assigned, rather than how the direct, not possible proximate, causes could have been avoided and many lives saved.
We need hard men, to think and to do. I wish Trump well.
It’s starting to look like there was something wrong with the altimeter on the helicopter.
The ATC made several transmissions with the Black Hawk Helicopter (PAT25). The second to last transmission relayed to the helicopter that a commercial passenger flight was just south of Woodrow Wilson bridge flying at 1200 ft setting to land on runway 33.
Rebecca Marie Lobach, an LBGTQ activist, was the pilot in charge (PIC). She was receiving her annual check to keep her license current. She had not flown in quite some time since she had volunteered to work in the White House. Her boss was Karine Jean-Pierre. CPT Lobach’s the one who escorted Ralph Lauren to receive a medal. She hadn’t spent much time flying since she was so busy at the white house.
She went through flight school at Ft Rucker in 2o19 and had 200 flight hours upon graduating. From 2019 to 2025 she had flown only 250 hours – giving her a total of 45o flight hours – an average of 50 flight hours per year.
CWO2 Eaves was not an instructor, but rather an evaluator who was observing her fly during her flight check.
Capt. Lobach’s father is an endocrinologist MD at Duke and that her mother, Mary Lee Lobach Lee Lobach, MD, formerly an ob gyn , now owns and operates a Equine Therapeutic Center for Women called Circle of Oaks.
Thank you, Paula.
That’s enough for anyone who’s not a feminazi or a cuck. DEI killed these people by passing over qualified men to put a sapphic sister at the controls of the chopper. The lengths to which posters here have gone to excuse her of any responsibility is utterly disgusting. Shame on you all- 67 passengers died. Big talk about how awful DEI is until it interferes with your feminism.
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https://x.com/threadreaderapp/status/1886313845972447436
Bill Kristol EIN exposed
That explains a lot!
There’s a connection between Bill Kristol and Michael J. Totten and Samantha Power and Obama.
The elite Left love her books; Obama was smitten. She’s a major player, and smart enough to keep her head down.
MJT was hard-pitching Samatha’s memoir The Education of an Idealist on his blog at World Affairs Journal.
When Kristol launched The Bulwark, he hired Totten as editor: Totten went down in flames at WAJ – he burned his hard earned credibility.
– more later.
According to @DataRepublican on X, Bill Kristol (yes, that one) is president of an org called ‘Defending Democracy’. It received millions of tax $$ from USAID through Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.
I wonder what president Bill did w/ all that $$??
rduke007 beat me to it.
One of the all-time best on X
My brother posted the JPG on Facebook.
That paranoid platform won’t preview anything from X
USAID began with mostly good intentions. Unfortunately, like many institutions, it was.captured and compromised by the wokiesta leftist. Today it operates mostly under the radar sending out federal taxpayer funds to all corners of.the world in support of.goals/agendas which are not supported by the majority the electorate.
The wokiesta leftist grifters and their media allies are going to make the ‘don’t throw the baby out of the bath water’ argument and the ‘aircraft in mid flight’ arguments am!omg others to stop reforms. Eff that. The woke lefty d/prove had a billion dollars + to spend on the ’24 election cycle. Those wealthy lefty donors can be asked to pony up $ to support small donors who join together and voluntarily send $ to continue the work of these programs.
TL/DR Charity support of ‘do gooder’ program goals must return to private sector voluntarily donations.
TRUMP PROSECUTORS WERE FUNDED BY USAID
“This push to prosecute Trump by Alvin Bragg, Soros was a minor co-funder.
He gave them $10,000, that’s it!
The $14 million he gave to the parent company, the fiscal sponsor of FJP (Fair and Just Prosecution, a nonprofit that supports and influences progressive prosecutors in the U.S.), well, that ain’t shit compared to the $27 million that USAID gave them.
Every time you hear the word Soros prosecutor, no, they’re USAID prosecutors.”
https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1886167348282863630
I wonder how many millions of brown and black babies have been aborted with USAID dollars?
There is no valid reason for USAID systems to contain classified info. Confiscate. Appoint a special master with lots of clearance and then start prosecuting people on the basis of what is found.
Validity is in the eye of the beholder. That classified information is most likely a money trail from the US taxpayer to the USAID to NGO’s to the pockets of the Democrat party.
In theory, yes. In practice, no. Any audit needs to be unconstrained by security clearances, otherwise all you get is “We spent three billion dollars and we can’t tell you where goodbye.” Thankfully, the Executive has the Article II power for classification, and can bestow it on any auditor at his discretion. Lots of sacred cows headed for hamburger land.
The reasons for classifying are fairly broad. But to those of us with common sense, they ain’t THAT broad. I do wonder if anyone is also looking at any over-classification, particularly outside of the military. If you find places doing it, BURN. THEM. DOWN.
I’m done.
burn it all to the ground.
This is pretty much where we’re at with all these bureaucrats and these agencies. There’s gonna be all sorts of sniveling but they had an opportunity to be part of the decision making process re reforms and restructuring in the 1st Trump admin. Instead they chose obstruction and obfuscation via ‘resistance’. Their input isn’t welcome any longer. That really has their ass chapped b/c their entire sense of self worth is built upon their credentials, perceived expertise and ‘important’ gov’t position. They got told to stand in the corner and STFU, not even invited to sit at the kids table much less the grown up table.
Considering one of the groups responsible for approving or denying spending requests had never denied a spending request in modern memory…..
USAID is now and has nearly always been a slush fund for ‘do gooder’ BS aligned with 3 letter agencies to assist their ‘hearts and minds’ crap. Over the decades it became more openly aligned with neocon adventurism and in return for mostly no questions asked the wokiestas got to ship out taxpayer funds for all sorts of their lefty/woke boondoggles.
IOW this agency is uniparty abomination of waste, fraud and abuse of taxpayer money.
Have you seen the latest video from OMG? What an insufferable prick. These people (of the “professional class”) believe they know better than everyone else, to the point this particular prick has determined that despite the fact Trump was elected with a majority that the American people don’t really want what he’s (Trump) is selling, and therefore it’s OK to resist and continue run the elites’ preferred program.
Just get it out in the open and see what survives the wash.
Fan meet ______. And I couldn’t be happier.
How can USAID be in possession of anything classified? Yeah I know but talk about mission creep. Blackbriar.
How can USAID be in pssession of anything classified?
That situation is thanks, in part, to George W. Bush. He tasked USAID to cooperate w/ the CIA.
They’ve done that for decades. Remember that Vietnam thing?
Anonymous accusations of classified documents being accessed?
Gosh. Haven’t heard that one before.
Also, note how the journalist said DOGE was created by Musk. It wasn’t. It was created by President Trump.
This is the USAID Disinformation Primer PDF Mike Benz highlighted:
https://archive.org/details/usaid-disinformation-primer/
Product of America First Legal Foundation’s FOIA victory.
No one following the war in Afghanistan should be surprised to learn that we allowed farmers to raise and harvest opium poppies. Bill Roggio at The Long War Journal and Michael Yon wrote about it; that USAID was involved isn’t a shocking revelation – concurrent with its (CIA) shenanigans in Pakistan.
== 1944-45 Kachin Rangers in Burma. ==
US Army paid Kachin Rangers with small blocks of refined opium. The Army colonel (OSS) running the operation said so in his late 1970’s war memoir. Sorry, I don’t recall the name of the book – the dust jacket cover featured the USA Kachin Ranger campaign patch.
He said he kept a supply of opium in his office safe at Fort Hertz (British). He said the Kachins (animist hunters) had no use for gold/silver specie. It’s true, they didn’t. They certainly didn’t strut around the jungle wearing jewelry.
Here’s what we want: Samantha Power. Rake her over the coals and then lock her in prison. She’s a dirty tricks major league player.
I don’t get “independent government agency”, independent for whom or what?
Independent enough to not have any blowback on any elected on elected politicians.
And independent enough to ensconce a Prog as the head and then evade accountability to the citizenry.
on any
elected onelected politicians.FIFM
True and like every other balloon it keeps going up, flowing along the breeze unaffected by gravity…. until it is and it all comes crashing down.
Over 60 percent of emerging infectious diseases over the past six decades-from SARS to pandemic H1N1 and HIV-have originated in animals, with nearly half linked to land use change, agricultural intensification, or changes in food production.
And the other half from bioweapons labs near wet markets in China.
“And the other half from bioweapons labs near wet markets in China.” You can probably credit another 45% to 50% to the bioweapons labs in Ukraine.
The idea that humans have a GREATER interaction with animals now than in the past is just nonsensical What is instead most probable is that agencies-out-of-control are working to enhance existing pathogens found in critters and then releasing them among the most defenseless and unimportant populations; i.e. in Africa, perhaps South America or China.
Remember USAID was a CIA front in Laos, during the Vietnam war.
I think this is outstanding. Our new government appears to be serious about saving our country.
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