Donald Trump won the 2024 Presidential Election fair and square. He won the popular vote, he won all of the swing states, he won the electoral college, the Republicans maintained control of the House, and the Republicans snatched the Senate away from the Democrats. Although many Democrats deny this, the election was a blood-bath for them.

Donald Trump campaigned on a number of things: secure the border; make smarter decisions with our energy; bring down prices; heal the economy; remove illegal aliens from our country; and put a decisive stop to government waste and inefficiency. Everyone knew these were his priorities – and a majority of Americans voted for him and expected him to carry out those campaign promises. Trump is doing precisely that.

President Trump appointed various talented and smart individuals to help him with his agenda. Marco Rubio; Tulsi Gabbard; Pam Bondi; Pete Hegseth; Kristi Noem; Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.; Scott Bessent; Kash Patel; and Elon Musk are all given various assignments and areas of responsibility. Elon Musk, who is an organizational genius and extraordinarily adept at finding (and cutting) waste, has been part of a new government agency called the Department of Government Efficiency (or DOGE).

One of the recent government agencies Musk put under his microscope is known as the USAID. What is that? It stands for the United States Agency for International Development. What is the USAID’s job or purpose? The purpose of USAID is to distribute money to foreign countries in an effort to help them develop as a nation. Let me give you some examples of what USAID is supposed to do. Let’s imagine there was an avalanche in some Middle East country that did severe damage to a remote village. USAID might provide funding so that the people there could have medical supplies. Or imagine there is a famine in the Sudan. USAID might provide money to aid their starving population to grow crops, and receive food. Let’s imagine there was an outbreak of yellow fever in Bulgaria. USAID might pay for doctors and nurses to fly into Bulgaria and provide medicine, as well as provide money to build a new hospital there. Or let us imagine that a mysterious explosion in the population of a spider species in Brazil known as Phoneutria, also known as the Brazilian Wandering Spider, resulted in numerous bites in both children and adults, with many of the children dying from the venomous bite, and there was a shortage of the anti-venom. USAID might send down medical professionals and a number of arachnologists with large supplies of anti-venom to lend assistance to that crisis.

All of the above examples would seem to be noble causes and quite praiseworthy.

But what are the facts about how the USAID has been spending their $40 billion budget? Here is what Elon Musk and his team of algorithm experts have discovered that USAID has been spending your tax dollars on:

• $75 million was given to promote DEI initiatives in foreign countries. Not food. Not building infrastructure. Not providing medicine. But DEI. And from that $75 million, almost $8 million of it was used to teach Sri Lankankan journalists to avoid binary-gendered language. Someone doesn’t want journalists in Sri Lanka to write the words he, him, his, she, her, hers, man, woman, male, female, boy, or girl in their news stories.
• $20 million was given to produce a Sesame Street TV show in Iraq.
• $16 million was given to LGBT causes in various countries such as Uganda, the Western Balkans, Serbia, Guatemala, Jamaica, and Macedonia.
• $10 million was spent to provide meals to an al-Qaeda-linked terrorist organization called the al-Nursra Front – the very people that wish to decapitate us. Again, the U.S. Government has been sending money to feed the very Islamic terrorists who wish to murder us. These are your tax dollars at work.
• $8.3 was spent on schools in Nepal, not to promote math or reading skills, but Equity and Inclusion.
• $4.5 million was spent combatting “misinformation” in Kazakhstan.
• $2.5 million was spent to promote inclusion in Vietnam.
• $2.1 million to the British Broadcasting Corporation to “strengthen the media ecosystem in Libya.”
• $2 million was spent to launch a transgender-themed comic book in Peru.
• $1.5 to rebuild the Cuban Media Ecosystem.
• $1.5 was spent to promote “Art for inclusion of people with disabilities” in Belarus.
• $1.3 million was given to “Arab and Jewish photographers.” Why? No clue.
• $70,000 was spent to promote a DEI-themed musical in Ireland.
• $32,000 was spent to produce a transgender-themed opera in Columbia.

I make no comment on the various “causes” mentioned above. If someone wants to fund a certain kind of comic book, or if someone wants to fund an opera, or a Sesame Street television program, or Arab and Jewish photographers, knock yourself out.

But the question remains: Do the American people want their hard-earned tax dollars going for such causes?

More to my point: now that this has become public, how do the government officials respond to having been, shall we say, outed?

Are the Democrats who push such spending at all embarrassed? Let’s see:

Democrat Senator Chris Van Hollen said this: Cutting off such funding “is essentially putting lives at risk around the world.” If the Cuban media ecosystem does not get our $1.5 million, lives are at risk. If Nepal doesn’t get our $8.3 million to promote equity, kids will die. If Iraq doesn’t get our $20 million to produce Sesame Street on TV, mayhem and anarchy will abound if you ask Senator Van Hollen. He actually said that the kids will join terrorist groups like Al Qaeda if they don’t get to watch Sesame Street. I’m not making this up.

Senator Liz Warren and Congresswoman Maxine Waters claimed what DOGE is doing is unconstitutional. It’s against the U.S. Constitution to find and eliminate wasteful government spending.

And numerous other Democrat leaders express rage and fury that Elon Musk is uncovering such examples of reckless spending. These Left-wingers should be hanging their heads in shame; instead, they are spitting fire that facts are being made public.

That should tell you all you need to know about the state of our nation at the present time.

And that, my friends, is the latest elephant in the room.

*For a well-written analysis of such matters, click here.