EXCLUSIVE: An internal memo disseminated to host the Republicans urges legislators to affirm that the president Donald Trump The management of foreign aid is “already paid dividends” and that the Biden administration has spent this money on initiatives such as “a transgender opera in Colombia through the State Department”.
The five-page document, obtained by Fox News Digital through a source of the GOP, is sent to members of the Republican Directorate as well as to the legislators of the Chamber’s Foreign Affairs Committee by President Brian Mast, R- Fla.
It includes three pages of recommended discussion points, in particular: “America spends $ 40 billion in foreign aid each year. A large part of these dollars of aid do not even reach expected beneficiaries and rather supports a complex Industrial NGOs which has, for years, to have been defrauding the American taxpayers in years.
The memo has urged the Republicans to argue Trump’s frost on foreign aid “is necessary because it is almost impossible to assess foreign aid programs when they are on the automatic pilot.”
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President Trump has retraced USAID in recent days. (Getty Images / File)
“A 90-day exam period, with derogations from common sense for really fatal situations, is the only way to give the State Department to eliminate waste,” he said.
The State Department issued a freeze on most days of federal foreign aid after Trump was sworn. In recent days, Trump and Elon Musk, the “Department of Effectiveness of the Government” (DOGE), have also directed a large scale of the American Agency for International Development (USAID), in particular by making the secretary of Marco Rubio state its actor chief.
The opponents of the moves said that he would enhond authoritarian governments who want to see the stature of the United States on the world scene decrease and that this would endanger thousands of lives abroad that depend on aid.
But Republicans love A mast, an ally of a high Trump, argues that the movements are justified to assess what the money really goes to the foreign aid that aligns on Trump’s agenda.
“America’s foreign aid is not a charity and its objective should not be advancing so far abroad,” the committee on X wrote on Monday.
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The president of the Chamber’s Foreign Affairs Committee, Brian Mast, is a Top Trump ally. (Ting Shen / Bloomberg via Getty Images / File)
The memo also encouraged legislators to highlight the existing exceptions for “emergency food assistance” and “vital medicine, medical services, food, shelter and subsistence assistance, as well as reasonable administrative supplies and costs to provide such assistance ».
The third page is dedicated to emphasizing where the Republicans of the Committee followed foreign aid as concerning “$ 39,652 to organize seminars at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on gender identity And racial equality through the State Department “and” $ 425,622 to help Indonesian coffee companies become more climatic and user -friendly by the sexes via USAID “.
Other priorities listed included “14 million dollars in cash vouchers for migrants on the southern border through the State Department”, “$ 446,700 to promote the expansion of atheism in Nepal by the Department of state “and” $ 32,000 for a comic centered on the LGBTQ in Peru.
A group of Democrats in the Chamber said that he refused to have registered at the USAID headquarters on Monday in the midst of the reaches of senior officials and others.
“We are not going to let this injustice occur. The congress created this agency with the 1961 foreign assistance law, and if you want to change it, you must change this law,” said representative Gerry Connolly, D-VA.
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However, it is not clear if all the Republicans are on board with Trump’s push. A vote to undo the USAID last year led by representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-GA., Founded with 127 GOP legislators voted against him, against 81 in support.
But Trump treatment of foreign aid was supported by republicans known to be national security hawks, including the previous president of the foreign president of the Michael McCaul Chamber, R-Texas.
“President Trump and his team are right to examine and reorganize the American distribution of foreign aid to ensure that each dollar taxpayers serves their planned objective. And I am optimistic that they will do so that way that Strengthens the intention behind these programs and strengthens our national security, “McCaul said.