Recently, The Trump administration and DOGE exposed the U.S. Agency for International Development as a hotbed of wasteful spending and far-left dogma. What exactly was going on behind the scenes, and how did the agency become the progressive “slush fund” we know it as today?

From Daily Caller. Before President Donald Trump shuttered the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Biden-Harris administration used it to advance a radical leftist agenda across the globe, former USAID officials told the Daily Caller.

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Trump and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) ordered all USAID employees to work from home in early February amid a funding freeze for the agency. Musk said that Trump supported a full shutdown of the agency. …

While Musk’s DOGE found a number of seemingly inexplicable expenditures from the agency — including millions for subscriptions to leftwing media outlets and $50 million for condoms in Djibouti — Democrats pushed back hard on the proposal to shutter the agency.

The reason for their fervor is becoming clear, as former USAID officials explained in detail how Democratic administrations have increasingly used the agency to promote a radical leftist agenda worldwide.

“They were literally trying to export this agenda, to create the rest of the world in their radical image,” Max Primorac, who served as USAID’s acting chief operating officer, senior agency vetting official and regulatory reform officer in the first Trump administration, told the Daily Caller.

Primorac, who also served in the Departments of State and Defense in George W. Bush’s administration, said that the Biden administration’s focus on spreading ideas like diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and transgender ideology weakened America’s influence abroad. …

He noted that in generally liberal European countries, like France, leaders rejected the American left’s woke ideology. French President Emmanuel Macron warned his country against participating in the “woke nonsense” of policing language in a 2021 speech. …

While the agency’s unelected career bureaucrats exported their ideology using taxpayer dollars to every corner of the globe, Dr. Mark Moyar explained, they hid their actions from the political appointees whom Trump selected to carry out the will of the electorate.

Moyar, who Trump appointed to the USAID in 2018, ran the outfit’s office of civilian and military cooperation. He described the moment that he discovered, over a year into his tenure, that unelected bureaucrats were hiding where the agency’s money was going.

“The LGBTQ kind of stuff, climate change, they would conceal that by saying, ‘Well, this is really economic growth or health or something else,’” Moyar told the Caller.

USAID had been funding programs like secret schools for women in Afghanistan, $20 million for the creation of a Sesame Street facsimile in Iraq, and a $2 million grant for gender affirming care in Guatemala, according to the New York Times and NPR. …

Primorac described the agency as “a slush fund for the progressives.” …

Besides exporting woke ideology abroad, the agency also insisted upon indoctrinating its own employees, Moyar told the Caller. He described being forced to undergo a ritual he referred to as a “DEI privilege walk.”

“Basically you stand in a row, and you’re given an identity. Well, in our case, we picked them out of a hat. So I was a woman of Scandinavian descent. And then there was the male French development official, and he was the most privileged because he’s a guy, and then you had all these other categories … there’s the indigenous woman with unwanted child and a male prostitute,” Moyar recalled.

“They read things like, ‘I get treated better when I ask for government services,’ or ‘people make negative stereotypes.’ And if the thing applies you step forward or back. At the end the white guys are farthest forward. I, as the white female, was second, and then other people are behind. It’s to show your privilege,” he recalled to the Caller. …

Upon learning how deep and far-reaching the agency’s corruption was, Moyar attempted to blow the whistle. Instead, he says, he was fired. …

He recalled how someone in his office — while working as a government employee — was also serving as the chairman of the board of a company that was receiving government business.

“He was using his job to help them, which is pretty clear criminal conflict of interest,” Moyar told the Caller. …

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(Excerpt from Daily Caller. Photo Credit: G. Edward Johnson – Own work, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=159365733)