The CIA and NSA have been caught red-handed with documents and chats that should have been kept under wraps, but were declassified and leaked to the press. This is the first part of a two-part series on this disturbing revelation.
00:04:56.000Not only is USAID giving $70,000 for a DEI musical in Ireland, or $50,000 for transgender opera in Columbia, or to entrench their left-wing ideology across the globe.
00:05:10.000USAID has been transformed into an America last foreign aid slush fund to prop up extremist groups, implement censorship campaigns, and interfere in foreign elections to force regime change around the world.
00:05:31.000That is a story the American people deserve to know.
00:05:34.000Not only was USAID never designed to be what it has morphed into, but these things should never have been funded in the first place.
00:05:44.000In fiscal year 2023, USAID disbursed roughly $44 billion of aid across 160 countries and regions around the world.
00:05:56.000During the four years of the Biden administration, 181 countries received approximately $240 billion in U.S. development aid, with Ukraine being the top recipient.
00:06:09.000Other top recipients include Ethiopia, Jordan, Israel, and Somalia.
00:06:15.000So after hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars have been distributed throughout the world, has the world become safer? No.
00:06:27.000Is the perception of the United States around the globe any better? No.
00:06:32.000But have some of the most anti-democratic principles like censorship and the canceling of elections been funded through USAID because of opposition to the ruling regimes? Yes.
00:06:46.000Has money through USAID been funneled to terrorists? Yes.
00:06:55.000Foreign aid from USAID to the U.N., particularly the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East, is directly funding Hamas terrorists.
00:07:08.000Humanitarian relief intended for the Afghan people was diverted to the Taliban.
00:07:15.000Money intended to support democracy is being used as a slush fund for liberal propaganda supporting terrorists, gender ideology, diversity, equity, and inclusion, climate activism, censorship, and regime change.
00:07:30.000Do you think this is what the American people think of when they think of foreign aid? Absolutely not.
00:07:38.000Taxpayer funds have literally been used to undermine U.S. interests and counter American foreign policy goals under the guise of foreign aid.
00:07:48.000This is unacceptable, and the American people agree.
00:07:52.000Thankfully, President Trump has taken action to address these issues.
00:07:56.000The election of President Trump was a clear mandate by the American people that they will no longer tolerate this.
00:08:03.000He is putting an end to the foreign aid slush fund, ensuring the hard-working American taxpayers' dollars are supporting America First policies,
00:08:13.000and taking care of our own people at home.
00:08:20.000With that, I now recognize Ranking Member Stansbury for the purpose of making an opening statement.
00:08:27.000All right. Well, good morning, everyone, and welcome to the Elon Musk Chainsaw Massacre,
00:08:34.000except for this remake of a classic is terrible because it's hurting real people,
00:08:40.000and its lead character, Mr. Musk, hasn't shown up in front of this committee or Congress at all.
00:08:46.000We also, of course, call this the Subcommittee on DOGE or Project 2025, as we'll see here during the Q&A.
00:08:53.000So today, in this hearing on foreign aid, which the GOP has called,
00:08:58.000you're going to hear all kinds of wild conspiracy theories, accusations, and unfounded data.
00:09:05.000It's designed to confuse and provide cover for Donald Trump and Elon Musk in their reckless gutting of our foreign aid
00:09:14.000and our reordering under the Trump Administration of International Affairs.
00:09:18.000But before we dive into the details, I want to zoom out and provide some critical context here about why this is happening.
00:09:28.000So first of all, let's talk about what happened over the last two weeks as the administration took an abrupt about-face in international relations
00:09:39.000after 64 years of USAID and supporting our allies in Europe, turning its back on long-standing allies,
00:09:48.000and now suddenly embracing and enabling U.S. foreign adversaries.
00:09:55.000Last week, the administration shocked the world as the Vice President took to the global stage and addressed European leaders
00:10:03.000and informed them that the Trump administration believes that the greatest threat to Europe is not the autocratic leader
00:10:11.000who invaded our Western ally three years ago and committed war crimes and atrocities against the Ukrainian people
00:10:18.000and threatened Western democracy, but instead the VP said it was, quote, a threat from within.
00:10:25.000He then snubbed our German allies and, in an unprecedented move, tacitly endorsed and then met with a far-right candidate from the German parliament
00:10:37.000who Elon Musk has spent months backing.
00:10:41.000This is a party that is so extreme that even conservatives in Germany will not form a government with them.
00:10:48.000Then, over the weekend, Donald Trump went on a wild rant on social media embracing Vladimir Putin and repeating Russian propaganda trying to rewrite history
00:11:00.000and falsely claim that Ukraine started a war against its own people.
00:11:04.000Then, on Monday, Trump had the United States of America vote with Russia, North Korea, and China as four of the only eight countries in the world voting in the U.N.
00:11:21.000against a resolution supporting Ukraine and affirming Ukraine's sovereignty.
00:11:26.000When you think about what this means in the context of American history, it's truly astonishing.
00:11:33.000That same day, which was only two days ago, the administration announced that they would proceed with firing another 2,000 USAID workers,
00:11:43.000even as a court ruled that the administration's dismantling of the aid organization is illegal.
00:11:49.000And interestingly, one of the main opponents of USAID programs is Donald Trump's buddy, Vladimir Putin.
00:11:57.000Why? Because among the programs that the U.S. was funding before the funding was frozen was aid to Ukraine, including safe houses on the front lines,
00:12:07.000a free and open press to help keep people informed what was happening in the war, not to mention refugee resettlement in the United States.
00:12:15.000USAID was also engaged in democracy building in Eastern Europe and the Balkans, especially with the fall of the USSR.
00:12:23.000Of course, Mr. Putin didn't like that either.
00:12:27.000And these investments have been totally decimated over the last several weeks.
00:12:33.000Over the last five years, USAID has funded international aid to 212 countries around the world
00:12:40.000to promote international peace and security, to help maintain stability and ensure that we are making good on America's promises.
00:12:49.000These investments are a fraction of the cost of weapons and defense.
00:12:55.000And the U.S. in the process is able to help promote national security, stop global pandemics, prevent hunger and mass migrations,
00:13:04.000and make the world and the United States a safer place.
00:13:08.000So when we hear conservative allies of Donald Trump repeat wild and unfounded claims about international aid,
00:13:17.000and we see a coordinated attack by conservative media think tanks like those who are here today, members of Congress, the administration,
00:13:26.000we have to ask ourselves, what is really going on here, folks?
00:13:31.000Why the hell are they so hell-bent on dismantling an organization that has been so vital to American interests and Western democracy for so long?
00:13:43.000Over the last several days, they have fired thousands of federal employees.
00:13:49.000It really does make you wonder, doesn't it?
00:13:52.000And by the way, while they've been doing that, China has actually moved in already to places in South Asia that had their funding cut
00:14:01.000and is beginning to replace American diplomacy and aid in those places.
00:14:07.000So as we listen to this hearing today and hear from our witnesses, which I look forward to,
00:14:12.000I hope that we can get to the bottom of what is actually going on here today.
00:14:17.000And with that, I look forward to hearing the testimony.
00:14:21.000January 24th, Secretary of State Marco Rubio gave an order that came with a waiver for emergency food assistance,
00:14:30.000which was broadened even further several days later for lifesaving services.
00:14:34.000Secretary Rubio has stated very clearly, we have a blanket waiver and anybody who tells you they don't understand it,
00:14:42.000let me repeat it in very simple words.
00:14:44.000If it saves lives, if it's emergency life-saving aid, food, medicine, whatever, they have a waiver.
00:14:52.000I don't know how much clearer we can be.
00:14:55.000And if we're not applying it, then maybe we're not a very good organization
00:14:59.000and maybe they shouldn't be getting any money at all.
00:15:02.000Additionally, in-kind food assistance purchased from U.S. farmers is continuing.
00:15:09.000I'm pleased to introduce our witnesses today.
00:15:12.000Max Primerak is a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation.
00:15:16.000We're going to get back to some of the witnesses.
00:15:17.000We're going to dip in and out of this.
00:15:19.000Particularly, as you know, we will focus somewhat on the Democrats asking cheap shot questions
00:15:23.000because you see the angle of attack they're coming at, the information warfare.
00:15:26.000I know the audience loved the congresswoman's tee-up right there.
00:15:31.000I could hear heads blowing up as it went.
00:15:34.000But you see, this is what half the country hears every day, is that.
00:16:49.000There's this whole section where they're talking about their identities,
00:16:54.000but they're talking about getting trans surgeries.
00:16:57.000And I want to read some of this to you because I think it's important so that you guys know who is in charge of our National Security Administration.
00:17:04.000They say here, and this is all during the work hours, by the way.
00:17:58.000You're not in the workplace in normal workplaces.
00:18:00.000You're not allowed to talk about things of a sexual nature.
00:18:03.000There's whole sections where they're faint.
00:18:05.000There's one person in here that's fantasizing about the idea of having a hermaphrodite child so that they could truly raise them as a true non binary baby.
00:18:15.000There's whole sections about promoting ethical non monogamy.
00:18:45.000There's this I'm going to read this paragraph because maybe maybe the war room posse can explain it to me.
00:18:50.000And by the way, this is at 440 p.m. in the afternoon on a work day.
00:18:54.000So mine looks like a triple bond with P2 double bonds with P3 and P4 who have triple bond between each other double bonds with P5 and P6 who have a triple bond.
00:19:07.000I think this is like – so there's a big group of people, like six people that are all – sorry, it's a total of eight people in this group.
00:19:14.000They're all sleeping around with each other, and then they have – they don't all sleep around with each other in the group.
00:19:23.000This is all being done by government employees at the National Security Administration.
00:19:26.000There's a question, but this is what I'm missing.
00:19:30.000These people have super high security – this is not like confidential secret, top secret.
00:19:36.000These people have the highest security clearances by the most secretive agencies in our government that have the most sensitive material that one could argue – and I'm a big believer in declassifying most of this stuff.
00:19:53.560But if you had to have certain stuff that was classified for national security, these would be the places that have it.
00:20:00.080That's what's – this is not like some affinity group out there that's a group of activists.
00:20:08.220There's not some corporate – a corporation that has this as part of a DEI initiative.
00:20:14.080These are people with incredibly high – that have been deemed by our country and by the apparatus, the national security and intelligence apparatus that oversees the deep state and supposedly oversees the security of the country.
00:20:31.080These people have been deemed guardians of our republic and the biggest state secrets, state secrets of our republic.
00:20:46.860These are people that should be like daily mask hours, people that are constantly praying.
00:20:52.240These are people that should have like the cleanest reputations, nothing weird in their background, totally normal, like very boring people.
00:21:00.040These should be like autists, basically, who just process numbers and process data.
00:21:18.980They're so like in this disordered world that they don't even realize how offensive this is to a factory worker or to a plumber or to like people out there slaving away, making this country actually run.
00:21:31.260And they don't realize how disordered their lives are, that they're just openly talking about it.
00:22:13.640I want to connect a dot, too, back to the CNN lead on – I think it was Sunday.
00:22:19.020They're saying that the Doge effort are reducing this reduction in force, the RIF, particularly where it hits something – and they use the CIA specifically when it hits Langley – that you're going to cause a national security problem because you have all these people that have these very high security clearances that are now going to be cut loose.
00:22:37.360And that could be a breeding ground for foreign intelligence services like the Chinese Communist Party or the Persians or the Russians, whoever, to basically scoop these people up and get their secrets.
00:22:48.340Well, right here, these guys knew this was going on.
00:22:51.560It's impossible that senior authorities – because I'm sure there's a couple of three senior authorities in the chat room itself.
00:22:59.040It's impossible that they didn't know this was going on, and you see the level of depravity and the opportunity, not just for blackmail, but if these people were let go, which to me they should be terminated immediately and prosecuted.
00:23:11.960They could flip with the highest state secrets we have and or methods and processes, right, and turn it over to foreign intelligence services.
00:23:35.680If Chris Rufo and you and I are talking about this on TV right now, these guys had it years ago probably, and I actually think this might explain a lot of the crazy decisions that Biden made in his White House.
00:23:48.180And I think also I've always wondered why Mark Milley thought it was a good idea to call the Chinese and tip them off that he was going to stop anything that Donald Trump might be doing out the door.
00:23:59.460He called a foreign adversary and let them know he would let them know about any attacks potentially coming.
00:24:04.000Why would he do that unless they had some compromising information on it?
00:24:08.260I mean, I think this brings a lot to light.
00:24:11.000These agencies are completely compromised at this point.
00:24:35.620You're breaking all types of stories like this and working on making sure this mess gets cleaned up as others, because Tulsi Gabbard has put down the word that she's doing a major investigation on this right now.
00:24:45.840I'm sure it's going to be a topic in the cabinet meeting that's going to take place here momentarily.
00:24:50.860Where do people go to get you for additional information?
00:24:52.960The best thing, the quickest breaking way to get information out there right now, Steve, is on X.
00:25:03.320I'm on every platform, though, so it's all just shilling1776.
00:25:07.140As you see it, this was one of the driving factors in President Trump's election, and it's getting worse.
00:25:17.500President Trump is taking action like Tulsi Gabbard is taking action.
00:25:22.120But the resistance on this is not going away.
00:25:24.280In fact, I actually think they're digging in harder.
00:25:26.920Do you anticipate – first off, am I correct in that or that's just my perception, number one?
00:25:31.040And number two, do you see this rolling out and even taking – playing a part in the Virginia governor's race, which is probably the most important political race we have this year, sir?
00:25:42.020Well, don't sleep on New Jersey, Steve, because I think we got a shot to win both in Virginia and New Jersey.
00:25:47.260And these culture war topics are going to be front and center.
00:25:52.240In fact, it's just changing battlefields.
00:25:54.500So you're right, Trump is winning on the culture war, especially on the gender identity stuff, cleaning up girls' sports and protecting our kids.
00:26:03.400And if you look at the polling on this, it's insane.
00:26:09.860He's not – he talks a good game sometimes, talks a lot of trash, but he's actually right.
00:26:14.640The numbers are like 86, 87 percent approval on the gender identity stuff he's doing.
00:26:18.880But here's where they're moving the battlefield to is the courts, right?
00:26:22.400And the whole – I talked to Mike Davis – after our conversation last week, I talked to Mike Davis about this, about these temporary restraining orders at these nationwide injunctions that these judges are doing.
00:26:33.000So next step is for the Trump administration to challenge those temporary restraining orders.
00:26:38.240But here's where it gets interesting and very good for us, Steve.
00:26:41.060The Supreme Court has made it very clear over the past few months that they are growing tired of these nationwide injunctions because they're being abused.
00:26:50.540So the longer – we need to keep fighting on this gender identity stuff because if the judges at the lower levels, the districts and the appeal courts keep messing around, they're going to find out because the Supreme Court is going to take away their ability to do these garbage nationwide injunctions.
00:27:07.960So keep fighting on the gender identity stuff because the left can't back away from it.
00:27:12.500Force them to do these nationwide injunctions.
00:27:14.180And then we can get rid of them entirely because the Supreme Court will restrict the lower court's ability to continue to do these nationwide injunctions.
00:27:27.840When Natalie Winters talks about embeds, this is what she's talking about.
00:27:31.340You have in these two and a half, three million government employees, right, these bureaucrats, the people that run the administrative state and the deep state, you have these types of people.
00:27:44.300These are Trump haters, and these people are depraved.
00:27:49.040There's nothing they won't do to destroy MAGA.
00:27:52.360This is where it gets to be a spiritual war.
00:27:54.440And I strongly recommend, and it's going to be quite distasteful because it was, like I said, this is not my line of country.
00:28:03.120But Chris Ruffo has done a tremendous public service by putting this stuff up.
00:28:07.200And, Terry, as you know, because we talked about how can we even put it up on the show and much less how are we going to put it on the morning part of the show, right, where there's so many homeschoolers.
00:28:17.160But this has to be addressed, and this is what Natalie means by embeds, that your government's replete, maybe not in this topic, but analogous, other chat rooms doing other things, right, maybe not quite so depraved.
00:28:35.240But the government's full of this, and this is what President Trump – these are embeds.
00:28:39.180This is what President Trump has to fight every day.
00:28:51.180But, Steve, one more thing, if I could.
00:28:53.460There's a whole section in here where these government employees at the NSA and CIA, where they're talking about how they had to fly over to Thailand to get their sex change procedures.
00:35:45.840U.S. assistance has also built partnerships and economic growth, so much so that 11 of
00:35:50.840America's 15 biggest trading partners were former recipients of U.S. foreign assistance.
00:35:55.700We are now in a period of renewed geostrategic competition.
00:36:00.860China has been vying with the U.S. for partnerships across the Global South, inking deals where it can.
00:36:07.100China can and will fill soft power voids left by the U.S.
00:36:10.780Other potential threats to our security are also connected to developing countries and fragile states,
00:36:16.340from the potential resurgence of ISIS in the Middle East to the spreading influence of Islamist militants and Russian mercenaries across the Sahel.
00:36:23.680On the eastern edge of Europe, Russian aggression may continue to grow unchecked,
00:36:29.080and in Colombia, the strife from neighboring Venezuela is spilling over to yield the worst violence in a generation.
00:36:34.840With that backdrop, the administration has abruptly and collectively disabled U.S. tools of foreign assistance.
00:36:41.980The White House has said it is cutting programs that do not benefit Americans.
00:36:45.940But their approach is dismantling many programs that help Americans, thereby cutting off our nose to spite our face.
00:39:29.480Whether you have bank failure in 2008 or a bank failure in Silicon Valley Bank,
00:39:35.180or you have, or you have, right now, and I've got this fascinating book from Alexander Karp called The Technological Republic,
00:39:46.080and he's the head of Palantir, and of all the oligarchs, he's probably the one least on the spectrum.
00:39:52.760But he makes an argument for another Marshall Plan or Mercury Space Plan to essentially bail out the oligarchs because they haven't hit their marks on this Faustian bargain that we made with them,
00:40:07.580that the Obama administration and Biden made with them to let them become oligarchs so they could control the commanding heights of the algorithmic age.
00:40:21.180This is what this whole USAID is, and that's only one thing.
00:40:25.340I hope today's hearing, I think a lot of it's going to be USAID.
00:40:28.000I know they have the guy from Rob Bluey's Daily Signal that wrote the book Woketopus, which is quite fascinating.
00:40:34.340He kind of ties it all together, not just a woke agenda, but also how it was executed.
00:40:38.940And USAID has been one that we've been on for a long time, playing by the rules, and that's what people were doing.
00:40:48.260The House continued to override, one, what President Trump wanted to do, but then its own members, Matt Gaetz, MTG, Lauren Boebert, Eli Crane, Andy Biggs, Gosar, Thomas Massey.
00:51:09.540So they have two jobs, but they're supposed to have one.
00:51:12.680And the letter asks some simple questions like, what have you done lately?
00:51:17.680And if they can answer that, because I can, I can tell you everything I've done for the last long period of time, a lot more than a week.
00:51:25.780And in many cases, we haven't gotten responses.
00:51:29.660Usually that means that maybe that person doesn't exist or that person doesn't want to say they're working for another company while being paid by the United States government.
00:51:38.460So there's a lot of interesting things.
00:52:30.220And this is part of the reason I got elected.
00:52:32.700I got elected based on taxes and based on many things in the border, but also based on balancing budgets and getting our country back into shape.
00:55:57.680If we're to achieve a trillion-dollar deficit reduction in financial year 2026, it requires saving $4 billion per day, every day, from now through the end of September.
00:56:29.340I just wanted to ask you that President Trump put out a truth social today, saying that everybody in the Cabinet was happy with you.
00:56:37.460I just wondered if that – if you had heard otherwise, and if you had heard anything about members of the Cabinet who weren't happy with the way things were going.
00:56:43.960And if so, what are you doing to address those – any dissatisfaction?
00:56:49.640Hey, Elon, let the Cabinet speak just for a second.
00:57:50.680Are there – about half of the government employees so far appear to have responded to your request for what they've been doing over the past week.
00:57:58.240Is there a timeline in place for next moves for people being fired and bunking in there?
00:58:02.460Do people expect to see results of that?
00:58:17.800Mr. Do you have a pulse and two neurons?
00:58:21.120So, if you have a pulse and two neurons, you can reply to an email.
00:58:25.400Mr. This is, you know, I think not a high block is what I'm saying.
00:58:31.660This is – should we – anyone can accomplish this?
00:58:34.500But what we are trying to get to the bottom of is we think there are a number of people on the government payroll who are dead, which is probably why they can't respond.
00:58:43.340And some people who are not real people, like they're literally fictional individuals that are collecting paychecks – well, somebody is collecting paychecks on a fictional individual.
00:58:52.360So we're literally trying to figure out are these people real, are they alive, and can they write an email?
00:58:58.400Which I think is a reasonable expectation for the – you know, the American public would have at least that expectation of someone in the public sector.
00:59:05.320Mr. Mas, roughly a million employees –
00:59:08.140This is not a high bar, guys. Come on.
00:59:10.920Roughly a million employees have responded so far to this email.
00:59:14.320Does that mean that the remaining one million or so federal employees now risk being terminated?
00:59:19.100And is it your understanding and expectation when you post a directive on X that the cabinet secretaries will follow that order?
00:59:26.100Because several agencies have instructed employees that this is voluntary or not to respond.
00:59:32.420Well, I mean, so, I guess it was, like last week, the President encouraged me by a true social – and also by a phone call – to be more aggressive.
00:59:43.420And I was like, okay, you know, yes, sir, Mr. President, we'll indeed do that.
00:59:49.420The President is the Commander-in-Chief. I do what the President asks.
00:59:53.420So, and I said, can we send out an email to everyone just saying what did you get done last week?
01:00:00.420The President said yes, so it did that.
01:00:03.420And, you know, we got a partial response. We're going to send another email.
01:00:11.420Our goal is not to be capricious or unfair.
01:00:14.420We want to give people every opportunity to send an email.
01:00:18.420And the email could simply be, what I'm working on is too sensitive or classified to describe.
01:00:23.420Like, literally just – that would be sufficient. We're – you know, I think this is just common sense.
01:00:30.420And what is your target number for how many workers, employees you're looking to cut total?
01:00:35.420We wish to keep everyone who is doing a job that is essential and doing that job well.
01:00:42.420But if they're – if the job is not essential or they're not doing the job well –
01:00:47.420Okay, Stephen came in in the war room. We're passing on to Charlie Kirk.
01:00:50.420We're going to continue live in the cabinet meeting.
01:00:52.420We will be back here at 5 p.m. Eastern Standard Time to wrap it all up for you.
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