Friday, February 21, 2025

DOGE Cleanup Crew

The public is partly shocked, partly outraged. People in North Carolina devastated by Hurricane Helene have until recently been ignored by their government. Yet that same government, through the spigot operated by USAID and the State Department, could spend $15 million on condoms in Afghanistan, $1 million to boost French-speaking LGBTQ groups in West and Central Africa, $14 million on cash vouchers for migrants at the southern border, $3,315,446 for “being LGBTQ in the Caribbean,” $7,071.58 for a BIPOC speaker series in Canada, $1.5 million to promote job opportunities for LGBTQ individuals in Serbia, and $425,622 to help Indonesian coffee companies become more climate- and gender-friendly.

Read the rest of The New Criterion article here.

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