House Republicans push to reroute frozen USAID funding into deporting illegal immigrants

Meanwhile, they come after me and try to accuse me of publishing classified information and use that as a pretext to have me fired,

Moya said

So I think we're going to find a great amount of waste, fraud and abuse, especially because the Inspector General, I think, has been asleep at the wheel,

Moyar said

A lot of them were beholden or had ties to the previous administration, the Obama administration, [and] the large majority of them had voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016,

Mark Moyar, who worked in the department from 2018 to 2019, said

Most other countries look at this DEI stuff and say, ‘This is crazy,

he said

Americans were put last at nearly every turn during the Biden administration. This was evidenced by the criminal crossing crisis at our Southern border and the wasteful distribution of taxpayer dollars by agencies like USAID,

Ogles said

America has spent billions of taxpayer dollars funding Democrats' pet projects in countries that despise us and everything we stand for,

Biggs said

There's a lot of chaos that's going to play out, or starting to play out already, at the country level,

she said

We are still in limbo as to whether this project will continue or not,

said executive director Josephine Lascano

Where we stand today is children going without education and mothers not receiving prenatal care,

he added

We know that this is a sector that, in any case, must innovate,

he said

So there is effectively a pause on all future funding as well,

he said

Today, the United States is debating the future of its development agency. But this subject concerns the entire planet,

he said

I think everyone in the world knows exactly what USAID is, no matter what part of the political spectrum they are on,

Mike Howell, executive director of the Heritage Foundation's Oversight Project, told the Washington Examiner, echoing the White House’s critiques

It's heavily ironic that you see Jamie Raskin and others speaking in these constitutional terms when, functionally, USAID has been operating outside congressional oversight and specific appropriations as to what they are doing for decades,

added Howell

As we dug into USAID, it became apparent that what we have here is not an apple with a worm it in but that we have actually just a ball of worms. USAID is a ball of worms, there is no apple. And when there is no apple... you've just got to basically get rid of the whole thing. That is why it's got to go. It's beyond repair."

Musk said on a livestream on Monday

In addition to another ongoing audit on direct budget support, we are examining USAID's Energy Security Project, USAID's oversight of Starlink Satellite Terminals provided to the Ukrainian government, and USAID's efforts to protect against sexual exploitation and abuse in Ukraine,

Martin told Congress

USAID has been run by a bunch of radical lunatics and we're getting them out and then we'll make a decision."

President Trump told reporters on Sunday

Every (diplomatic) mission has a certain amount of budget that they get from headquarters to spend on these things, and since this was unplanned, no one’s clear on where the money is actually going to come from and how it’s going to be paid for,

he explained

My scary panic button appears to be working, but I have not yet confirmed with security — the app is tied to my USAID email which is deactivated,

they told CNN, noting they have heard from colleagues in other hotspots

I cannot say for sure whether they [the embassy] are responsible for my safety and evacuation, if needed,

a USAID contractor posted in a dangerous location echoed