Not to be insensitive, but oh, the humanity!
Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) recently announced that it has put the kibosh on close to a billion U.S. tax dollars from funding outlandish overseas programs, including $10 million to “voluntary medical male circumcisions” in Mozambique.
U.S. taxpayers paying for circumcisions in Mozambique. Who knew?
In a Saturday post to X (formerly Twitter) DOGE announced a total of $729 million in savings, listing multiple ridiculous initiatives being funded by U.S. taxpayers with zero knowledge of where the money was going (emphasis, mine).
US taxpayer dollars were going to be spent on the following items, all which have been cancelled:
- $10M for "Mozambique voluntary medical male circumcision"
- $9.7M for UC Berkeley to develop "a cohort of Cambodian youth with enterprise driven skills"
- $2.3M for "strengthening independent voices in Cambodia"
- $32M to the Prague Civil Society Centre
- $40M for "gender equality and women empowerment hub"
- $14M for "improving public procurement" in Serbia
- $486M to the “Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening,” including $22M for "inclusive and participatory political process" in Moldova and $21M for voter turnout in India
- $29M to "strengthening political landscape in Bangladesh"
- $20M for "fiscal federalism" in Nepal- $19M for "biodiversity conversation" in Nepal
- $1.5M for "voter confidence" in Liberia
- $14M for "social cohesion" in Mali
- $2.5M for "inclusive democracies in Southern Africa"
- $47M for "improving learning outcomes in Asia"
- $2M to develop "sustainable recycling models" to "increase socio-economic cohesion among marginalized communities of Kosovo Roma, Ashkali, and Egypt"
And remember, this is the kind of ridiculous nonsense the Democrat Party and left-wing media continue to melt down over.
Former U.S. Department of Energy nuclear scientist Matt Van Swol was flabbergasted, writing:
It is genuinely horrifying to see how much money the American people were sending to OTHER COUNTRIES while our own infrastructure is crumbling.
Just disgusting.
Amen.
It is genuinely horrifying to see how much money the American people were sending to OTHER COUNTRIES while our own infrastructure is crumbling.
— Matt Van Swol (@matt_vanswol) February 16, 2025
Just disgusting.
Even more disgusting is watching Democrats like Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) and others continue to pretend to lose their minds over Musk's DOGE and the whole "constitutional crisis" shtick, when in reality what Congressional Democrats are really losing their minds over is the likely end of their gravy train of influence money. Sound farfetched? Not for a New York minute.
Here's more:
Just last month, Republican lawmakers demanded an investigation into former President Joe Biden’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for allegedly illegally using taxpayer dollars to pay for at least 21 abortions in Mozambique through PEPFAR (the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief), Breitbart News reported.
Sen. Jim Risch (R-ID), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, confirmed in late January that the CDC had disclosed that PEPFAR funds were used to pay health workers who performed the abortions, and he accused the CDC of violating the Helms Amendment, a policy which prohibits the use of U.S. foreign aid to pay for abortions abroad.
Meanwhile, to listen to faux-traumatized Congressional Democrats, Donald Trump and Elon Musk are on the verge of ripping up the U.S. Constitution and declaring an oligarchy. Yawn.
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