{"id":4746,"date":"2025-02-08T12:28:16","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T12:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/fact-checking-claims-about-usaid-funding\/"},"modified":"2025-02-08T12:28:16","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T12:28:16","slug":"fact-checking-claims-about-usaid-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/fact-checking-claims-about-usaid-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact-Checking Claims About USAID Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Top officials in the Trump administration and allies in Congress, eager to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development, have accused the agency of misusing taxpayer funds. But many of their claims were misleading or lacked context.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The agency, long a target for conservative critics who have questioned the value of foreign aid, has been subject to sharp upheaval in the last week. After freezing foreign aid for 90 days, the Trump administration said it would drastically <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/06\/us\/politics\/usaid-job-cuts.html\" title=\"\">reduce the agency\u2019s work force<\/a>, although a federal judge temporarily paused elements of the plan on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The speed and scale of the efforts to gut U.S.A.I.D. are part of a larger bid by Mr. Trump and his allies to cut costs across the federal government.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Here is a fact-check of their claims about the agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9w1fbe e6idgb70\">What Was Said<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">\u201cIn some cases with U.S.A.I.D., 10, 12, 13 percent, maybe less, of the money was actually reaching the recipient, and the rest was going into the overhead and the bureaucracy.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\u2014 Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/secretary-of-state-marco-rubio-and-costa-rican-president-rodrigo-chaves-robles-at-a-joint-press-availability\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a news conference on Tuesday<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">This is misleading. <\/strong>Mr. Rubio was likely referring to <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20250118170457\/https:\/www.usaid.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2025-01\/FY2024%20Localization%20Progress%20Report_Final_508_2.pdf#page=6\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a January report from U.S.A.I.D.<\/a> showing that about $2.1 billion, or 12.1 percent of its funding, went directly to local partners. But that does not mean that 80 to 90 percent of funding was spent on \u201coverhead and bureaucracy.\u201d In fact, most of the agency\u2019s funding is channeled through other recipients like American companies and charities as well as public international organizations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For years, U.S.A.I.D. has tried to shift more resources to and engage more directly with local partners, but the agency continues to team up with nonlocal partners to carry out the bulk of its aid programs. Catholic Relief Services, for example, is a nonlocal partner that has received <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usaspending.gov\/recipient\/2a706a17-b53d-3f3e-64c2-5b0166d343f1-R\/latest\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">hundreds of millions of dollars in funding<\/a> from the agency for charity work. By Mr. Rubio\u2019s logic, such work would be considered \u201coverhead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">According to <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/crsreports.congress.gov\/product\/pdf\/R\/R48150\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a 2024 analysis by the Congressional Research Service<\/a>, about two-thirds of U.S.A.I.D.\u2019s funding from fiscal year 2013 to fiscal year 2022 went to project-based assistance, about 19 percent toward contributions to public international organizations like the World Food Program and the International Committee of the Red Cross and 1.9 percent in contributions to the budgets of foreign governments. About 7.7 percent was spent on administrative costs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9w1fbe e6idgb70\">What Was Said<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">\u201cAnd I would just say a strong message to Democrats who are out there pretending to be outraged about the long list of crap that this administration is cutting, federal waste and funding, like $2 million for sex changes in Guatemala, $6 million to fund tourism in Egypt, $20 million on a new Sesame Street show in Iraq, $4.5 million to combat disinformation in Kazakhstan.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\u2014 Karoline Leavitt, White House press secretary, at <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0QJrwxIZGW8&amp;ab_channel=TheWhiteHouse\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a news conference on Wednesday<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">\u201cBecause if you look at the waste and abuse that has run through U.S.A.I.D. over the past several years, these are some of the insane priorities that that organization has been spending money on: $1.5 million to advance D.E.I. in Serbia\u2019s workplaces, $70,000 for a production of a D.E.I. musical in Ireland, $47,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia, $32,000 for a transgender comic book in Peru.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\u2014 Ms. Leavitt in <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Olmjw9LIRwk&amp;list=RDNSOlmjw9LIRwk&amp;start_radio=1&amp;ab_channel=WAAY31News\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">remarks on Tuesday to reporters<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">This is exaggerated. <\/strong>Ms. Leavitt\u2019s descriptions of the awards were largely inaccurate for five of the eight examples she listed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">She was correct that U.S.A.I.D. awarded a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20250111020443\/https:\/\/www.usaid.gov\/iraq\/fact-sheets\/ahlan-simsim-iraq\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">$20 million grant to Sesame Workshop<\/a> to produce a television show for young children called \u201cAhlan Simsim Iraq\u201d; a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usaspending.gov\/award\/ASST_NON_72011523CA00001_7200\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">$4.5 million grant<\/a> to \u201cadvance integrity and accountability in the information space and build societal resilience in the face of disinformation\u201d in Kazakhstan; and <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usaspending.gov\/award\/ASST_NON_72016922FA00001_7200\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a $1.5 million gran<\/a>t to advance diversity, equity and inclusion in Serbia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But she omitted context or misstated key details in her descriptions of the five other grants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usaspending.gov\/award\/ASST_NON_72052024FA00001_7200\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">$2 million grant<\/a> was awarded to Asociaci\u00f3n Lambda, a Guatemalan group, to \u201cdeliver gender-affirming health care, advocate for improved quality and access to services, and provide economic empowerment opportunities.\u201d <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aamc.org\/news\/what-gender-affirming-care-your-questions-answered\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Gender-affirming care<\/a> is an umbrella term that includes surgery as well as hormone therapy, counseling, hair removal and speech therapy; it is unclear how much of the $2 million, if any, specifically funded surgical interventions. The group\u2019s work also includes <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unaids.org\/en\/resources\/presscentre\/featurestories\/2023\/june\/20230627_guatemala-LGBTIQ-migrants\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">providing technical assistance, education and training<\/a> to L.G.B.T.Q. people.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/2017-2020.usaid.gov\/egypt\/press-releases\/dec-16-2019-united-states-commits-6-million-bilateral-assistance-egypt\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">$6 million award<\/a> in Egypt referred to a bilateral assistance agreement signed in 2019, under the first Trump administration, that made no mention of promoting tourism. The agreement, instead, sought to \u201cincrease educational opportunities and strengthen the livelihoods of the people of North Sinai\u201d and \u201cprovide access to transportation for rural communities and economic livelihood programming for families.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">And the State Department, not U.S.A.I.D., funded the last three projects Ms. Leavitt cited: about <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usaspending.gov\/award\/ASST_NON_SEI30022GR0010_1900\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">$70,000<\/a> for a musical performance at the United States ambassador\u2019s residence in Dublin featuring both <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=a71KNNxa2sM\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">American and Irish singers<\/a> and <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usaspending.gov\/award\/ASST_NON_SPE50022CA0009_1900\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">$32,000<\/a> to the Fulbright Commission in Peru to create a comic book \u201cfeaturing an LGBTQ+ hero to address social and mental health issues.\u201d For the opera in Colombia staged by an American composer, $22,000 of the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usaspending.gov\/award\/ASST_NON_SCO20021GR3086_1900\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">$47,000<\/a> outlay was in nonfederal funding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9w1fbe e6idgb70\">What Was Said<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">\u201cThey\u2019ve asked for, you know, the expenses of U.S.A.I.D. I mean, look, look \u2014 this is what was uncovered, three just quick examples, I mean you tell me if this is unreasonable, some of the stuff that the money was being spent on that we didn\u2019t even know, crazy examples that came out. Look, $100 million on initiatives like expanding atheism in Nepal. That\u2019s what American taxpayers should be paying for? No way. Transgender operas in Colombia, drag shows in Ecuador, no way.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\u2014 Speaker Mike Johnson, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/program\/news-conference\/house-republican-leadership-news-conference\/655366\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">in a news conference on Wednesday<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">This is misleading. <\/strong>Mr. Johnson\u2019s comments may give the impression that these were U.S.A.I.D. initiatives, but the three examples he cited were awards from the State Department.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In 2021, the State Department <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210421235406\/https:\/\/www.state.gov\/statements-of-interest-requests-for-proposals-and-notices-of-funding-opportunity\/drl-fy20-irf-promoting-and-defending-religious-freedom-inclusive-of-atheist-humanist-non-practicing-and-non-affiliated-individuals\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">solicited proposals for an award<\/a> of $500,000 for projects that support religious freedom in two to three countries in South or Central Asia, the Middle East or North Africa. The goal was to \u201cto ensure everyone enjoys religious freedom, including the freedom to dissent from religious belief and to not practice or adhere to a religion\u201d and \u201ccombat discrimination, harassment and abuses against atheist, humanist, nonpracticing and nonaffiliated individuals of all religious communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The award was the subject of a yearslong investigation by Republicans on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Documents the lawmakers obtained showed that the recipient of the award was a group called Humanists International, which <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.house.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2023-08-03-Letter-from-McCaul-Smith-and-Mast-to-Barclay-and-Hussain-regarding-NOFO-SFOP000797752.pdf\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">said it would use the funding<\/a> for \u201ctwo sub-grants to member organizations in Sri Lanka and Nepal.\u201d Republicans argued that the group and its member organization in Nepal, Soch Nepal, promoted atheism while the State Department maintained that the groups protected both the right to believe and not believe and <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/program\/house-committee\/secretary-of-state-blinken-testifies-on-us-withdrawal-from-afghanistan\/652601\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u201csaved many, many lives<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The State Department also funded $25,000 of the $47,000 opera staged in Colombia and gave <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usaspending.gov\/award\/ASST_NON_SEC30022GR0006_1900\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">$20,600<\/a> to a nonprofit in Ecuador for a film festival. Fox News <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/state-dept-defends-20k-grant-drag-shows-ecuador\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> in 2022 that the grant stated that the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/state-dept-defends-20k-grant-drag-shows-ecuador\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">festival<\/a> would include 12 drag shows, though the language currently describing the grant does not specifically mention drag shows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Regardless, these were not U.S.A.I.D. grants.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     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