Natalia Mittelstadt
The former executive director of the American International Development Agency (USAID) warns against corruption in an agency, which is currently checked and cleaned by the Trump administration, claiming that among politicians they mostly benefited from financing.
Mark Moyar (in the photo above), former director of the Civil Cooperation Office in USAID in the first Trump administration, explains the corruption he saw in the agency and lack of transparency, because he expects it to reduce. He also claims that the Democrats have used agency more than Republicans, based on his personal experience.
During the first few weeks of Trump’s second administration, the main priority was to spotless USAID. Secretary of State Marco Rubio was appointed as The duties of the USAID directorAnd the Trump administration is trying reduce the agency by thousands of employees.
The Trump administration identified USAID programs in the range from Contraceptives for Afghanistan Down LGBT diversity programs for European countries As clear proof that foreign aid had to be stopped and again evaluated, the task that fell to the Department of State.
Development Agency for years Lazy money To several non -profit groups, which also received significant support from the components of the Empire George Soros. Some previously were examined during Obama’s administration in terms of “democracy promotion” and efforts of court reforms in European countries, which critics claimed that they were promoting leftist policy.
On Monday The administration of general services was confirmed that USAID was deprived of a lease agreement on the main building in Washington
Among the USAID review, Moyar, USAID unmaskhe said “Only a message, no noise“On Friday, the agency had a television program about various issues related to transparency and responsibility.
“So in Trump’s first administration, when I served, we had great difficulty obtaining information. We saw in the news, Congress cannot get information from them. The bureaucrat is very good in hiding things, so only a drastic effort to close the things we have access, “said Moyar.
“And I think that in the coming weeks we will learn about many corruption that we didn’t even know about – a lot of waste, fraud and abuse. And we saw these few small programs, but there will be many more. So I think that it is probably too early to know, but clearly many things will go completely and other things must be embedded because we spend too much money on them. “
Moyar, who is the chairman of William P. Harris in military history in Hillsdale College, later explained one of the reasons why Trump’s first term recorded a confined reduction in waste, fraud and abuse.
“In the first administration of Trump they tried to do it, but I would say with very limited success, partly because you actually had problems with Trump’s names,” he said. “We had a very senior denomator Trump, who was married to the best lobbyist of the aid industry, which was a massive problem. This time we do not have it and we accept a much more coordinated approach.
“Last time it was a bit like:” We will come in and see if we will find a few things that we do not like and get rid of “, while this time we go:” We go to take everything out, and we must have evidence that it helps us. And so I think you will see a much larger part of what helps, analyze and removed. “
Moyar also discussed his personal experience calling for corruption in Usaid when he worked there. “I dealt with a security office, which is responsible for this verification,” Moyar said, referring to verification where USAID payments are sent. “They also deal with security permits. After reporting some people because of corruption, one of the things that happened is one of those corrupt people actually went to work in the security office to escape from me because he was in my office. “
“And then they didn’t really take the clearance of any of these corrupt people, but they came after my security permit,” he explained. “This office can work with high impunity and do it, so it becomes a weapon tool. There are many corruption that never lead to problems with the clearance, but they followed me, one person who tried to fight corruption. But they should check the verification.
“And then the General Inspector’s Office should also watch it, and they also do a terrible job, and I dealt with them a lot. Now they have recently changed their leaders – we will see how it will be, but they were a huge part of the problem. “
Change at the Inspector General Office 20 general inspectors in federal agencies during the first week of office.
Moyar mentioned that the financing of non -governmental organizations (NGOs), the United Nations and contractors through USAID receive public slack, and among politicians democrats mainly operate funds.
“Well, it certainly goes through a lot of money, which ends in the hands of non -governmental organizations, UN and contractors, and I think it is part of the indignation. I will say that most of this, I think, will go to Democrats because they are much more influential, “said Moyar.
“There is a small number of Republicans, but I can say, after the first administration of Trump, those of us who worked in administration were cut off from these non -governmental organizations and contractors, you know; However, in 2017 or if you look at what is happening now, they love all former Obama and Biden peoples. So for the most part, in fact, democrats who are enriched from the USAID budget worth $ 42 billion. “
Moyar also noticed the leftist ideology that USAID had, based on what the agency spent its funds on. “When you only have millions of dollars on these dei consultants, which, I think, most people would question whether they have any value – it probably causes more damage than good because of dividing ideology,” said Moyar.
“But then, under the command of Samantha Power, who managed this agency at Biden, tried to pour in Dei feminist lenses, transgenders into various types of programs. So even things that might not think would not be involved – for example healthcare, for example economic growth – these ideologies infiltrated almost everything that the agency does. “
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Natalia Mittelstadt is a reporter only in news.
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