The Swamp (Tries To) Strike Back: The Insidious ‘USAID Lite’ Plot
The Deep State tries to save its giant corrupt slush fund, right under Trump's nose. Call the White House NOW: +1 (202) 456-1414
by Joseph P. Duggan
March 31, 2025
The foreign aid complex is a racket. The harm it has done over the decades far exceeds its egregious waste of taxpayer dollars.
For years, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and its network of taxpayer-funded “partners” have promoted a destructive, intolerant ideology that not only opposes American national interests but also subverts the social and moral order of the civilizations represented by the Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. (RELATED: Foreign Aid Reform: USAID Has a History of Funding Terrorists and Anti-American Organizations)
On his first day in office, President Donald Trump addressed this issue in an executive order: “The United States foreign aid industry and bureaucracy are not aligned with American interests and in many cases [they are] antithetical to American values. They serve to destabilize world peace by promoting ideas in foreign countries that are directly inverse to harmonious and stable relations internal to and among countries.” (RELATED: Are the Protests in Slovakia Due to NGO and USAID Interference?)
Despite the announcement of major cuts in foreign aid spending and steps toward the nominal dismantling of USAID — to be replaced with another bureaucracy with a different name — the racket remains a going concern. Its members remain deeply entrenched and powerful in the State Department and in the racket’s ecosystem of non-governmental organizations and contractors. (RELATED: Development Economics Is a Hotbed for Corruption)
Call the White House NOW to warn the President about this Trojan horse: +1 (202) 456-1414
A memo purportedly written in the State Department by Trump administration officials and leaked to the left-wing media outlet Politico outlined a plan for a “complete revamp” of U.S. foreign aid. The dense, 13-page, single-spaced memo, whose pages are presented out of proper sequence on the Politico website, has two parts. First is a set of policy pronouncements joined to proposals for reorganizing the foreign aid bureaucracy. The second is a highly technical plan for legislative and administrative actions to accomplish the so-called revamp.
This article will focus on the non-technical part of the memo. Bottom line: it’s a Trojan horse.
Politico says the memo was written by some unnamed “Trump administration officials.” On close examination, the broader policy portion of the memo appears to be plagiarized from a policy paper released on Feb. 28 by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a bulwark of the Beltway Uniparty establishment.