DOGE: This is an absolute travesty! The second Kamala Harris lost the election, Biden unleashed a firehose of corruption, funneling $1.3 billion daily, nearly $100 billion total, to Democrat-aligned NGOs and companies before Trump’s inauguration.

NY POST Confirms SHOCK Rumors About Mamdani-We Knew It Was True !!

“CRIMINAL CHARGES” JD VENCE Makes Huge Discovery THIS IS ABOUT TO BE EPIC!!

Compare that to the measly $40 billion the same loan office disbursed over *5 years, a mere $8 million a day. This isn’t just mismanagement; it’s theft on an unprecedented, global scale. Trump must demand every cent be clawed back immediately!

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The Trump administration says it has a compelling reason to claw back $7.9 billion in foreign aid funds that Congress had approved prior to his taking office: evidence of what President Trump called “billions and billions of dollars in waste, fraud and abuse” that his staff had uncovered.

This rescission package, which includes $1.1 billion allocated to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, is now one step closer to approval.

In a marathon session that lasted into the small hours Thursday, senators voted 51-to-48 to approve the package after introducing numerous amendments. The House, which had approved an earlier version, will now vote on the amended package. The deadline for a final decision is midnight Friday.

Yet even as the administration has dismantled USAID, the primary agency for providing international aid, also pointing to waste, fraud and abuse, the rationale for this foreign aid upheaval has come under scrutiny.

Paul Martin, who was the inspector general for USAID until he was fired by Trump on February 11, as well as current officials and experts who monitor aid, all say the administration has provided little to no proof to justify its actions on foreign aid -– and say they are politically motivated.

“As far as I know, never once has anybody in DOGE or in the new Administration referred to the [Inspector General] criminal allegations of fraud, waste, or abuse,” Martin said in an interview with NPR. “Frankly, the handful of examples I am aware of were just completely made up,” he said, referring to President Trump’s claim in January that USAID sent $100 million in condoms to the militant group Hamas in Gaza.

A review of the reviews

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has publicly stated that staff at the State Department, along with DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency, worked “very long hours” over six weeks to review 6,500 USAID programs.

It was during these reviews, according to the State Department, that evidence of fraudulent expenditures, abuse and waste was uncovered.

Rubio made these comments on March 10 when he announced that 83% of these programs would be terminated after the “thorough” review process found that the agency spent “tens of billions of dollars in ways that did not serve, (and in some cases even harmed), the core national interests of the United States.”

NPR interviewed six officials at USAID and the State Department who had direct knowledge of what transpired. They all said that a thorough review had not been done. The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press.

The decision to terminate thousands of foreign aid programs came weeks before Rubio’s announcement, the officials said, when the bulk of USAID staffers were put on administrative leave. The agency and the State Department were experiencing so much “chaos and confusion,” as one source put it, that a thorough investigation or review did not take place.

The officials, who observed the reviews, all said that administration and DOGE staff did a “surface level” search for key words in the descriptions of thousands of programs, and if they found words like “gender” or “family planning”, “climate” or “equality” the program was marked for termination.

“Nobody looked at the effectiveness of the programs, it was just a question of political alignment,” one official told NPR.

NPR requested clarification from the State Department on how the review process had unfolded and how thorough it was, asking about the allegations made by the officials we interviewed. The State Department responded with a statement saying that in an exhaustive process “each program was reviewed individually” to ensure that foreign aid “works to make America safer, stronger and more prosperous.”

In a hearing at the Senate Appropriations Committee last month, Russell Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, said the rescission package cuts “egregious examples of blatant government waste and abuse” that his office discovered following this review of federal programs.