This seems to be one of the patterns that's been revealed recently.
To me, anyway. Conservatives, of course, have been onto this for at least decades:
Agencies are created, they are ideologically captured by left-leaning bureaucrats, and vast amounts of tax money is then wasted (at best) or put to destructive use funding loony left-wing causes. USAID misused our tax dollars to fund, for example: DEI-themed musicals in Ireland, "transgender" operas and comic books in Latin America...and the list goes on and on...and on...
Billions of dollars poured from USAID into Gaza, despite it being clear to everyone that much of it would make its way into the hands of Hamas. The agency also funded Eco-Health alliance, and that money was apparently used to fund the gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology that has killed more than seven million people worldwide...thus far...
It would be easy for Democrats to preserve whatever good work is done by agencies like USAID: stop corrupting them. Which they will not do. Instead, they (in effect) hold people hostage in places like Africa. The progressive argument is basically: We're going to fund drag shows and CRT indoctrination in Laos...and if you defund us, innocent people in Africa will die because they won't get AIDS drugs...your choice. Thus it's hard to resist the conclusion that CRT-themed drag shows are more important to progressives than African AIDS meds.
Besides: other nations and private organizations could take over USAID's legitimate functions if they really wanted to. Why does the U.S have to do everything? We've been put in a terrible situation such that our money is, seemingly, being used for both good and bad purposes--and the only people who could stop that...and stop it tomorrow if they wanted to...are progressive bureaucrats. Who refuse to do it.
Don't blame Trump and Pubs for cutting funds to agencies like USAID--blame Dems for corrupting then and turning them to their destructive, ideological ends.
