Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has renewed her calls to abolish the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), describing the agency as “the definition of an America Last agency.”
Greene teamed up with Congressman Chip Roy (R-TX) in February of this year to introduce H.R. 1123 which would permanently abolish USAID, halting all taxpayer-funding to the agency and requiring the return of any grants not yet disbursed to recipients while transferring its assets to the State Department.
The Georgia Congresswoman denounced the agency’s “global giveaways” and accused USAID of sending “billions overseas for gender programs and foreign handouts while Americans struggle under $37 TRILLION in national debt.”
In a post on X, earlier this week, Greene shared a Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) graphic demonstrating what she called “a corrupt loop” being funded with U.S. taxpayer money.
In the DOGE flow chart, a pattern emerges which begins with a Democratic administration being elected which then creates a slush fund for non-governmental organizations (NGOs).
Taxpayer dollars are then funneled to the various NGOs which, in turn, hire Democratic officials after their term in office is ended, paying them “cushy” salaries which allow them to donate to other Democratic campaigns.
At the time that Representatives Greene and Roy introduced H.R. 1123, Greene accused USAID of lighting “over $40 billion on fire” each year and referred to the agency as “the Democrats’ taxpayer-funded slush fund used to push their radical agenda at home and abroad.”
The Trump administration’s efforts to expose and end wasteful spending of taxpayer money through USAID have met with significant legal challenges, including a U.S. District Court Judge who ruled in March that the Trump administration had violated the Constitution by reining in the agency.
That ruling was overturned earlier this month by a federal appeals court which cleared the way for the Trump administration to cut billions in foreign aid funding this year.