Don Ewing: Cutting waste and lessening the burden on American taxpayers is long overdue

To The Daily Sun,

The hysterical reaction of Democrat politicians to cutting billions in wasteful spending from the U.S. Agency for International Development might make someone think that money was being taken from their own pockets.

Donald Trump’s team is fulfilling Trump’s campaign promise to cut wasteful spending. Trump’s enemies are calling these efforts “attacks on our democracy.” But they aren’t defending the spending which suggests that USAID was, as it appears, a slush fund promoting radical causes and providing kickbacks to Democrats. USAID reportedly funded Burisma Holdings which paid Hunter Biden $1 million annually.

Congress has long complained that USAID refused to explain their spending. Diplomats complained that USAID efforts weren’t coordinated with them and were often contrary to U.S. policies.

Reported examples of USAID overseas spending: $520 million for environmental, social and governance investments in Africa, over $100 million on climate change (including to China which builds one coal fired electric plant weekly), $65 million for condoms, $200 million or more promoting diversity, equity and inclusion and LGBTQ, $122 million to our enemy the Taliban, and apparently billions to non-governmental organizations helping foreigners come to and live in our country illegally.

Domestically USAID spent many millions to get favorable coverage from left leaning media outlets, like Politico, New York Times, and the Associated Press; no wonder they are so biased.

Trump’s team has found many billions of wasted tax dollars in a single agency in two weeks. Each area of government spending needs a similar scrubbing to eliminate the waste.

There’s hysterical outrage from the beneficiaries of these wasted billions. But, with 16% of Americans dependent on food banks and well over half of our people living paycheck to paycheck, cutting this waste and lessening the burden on American taxpayers is long overdue.

Don Ewing

Meredith