Trump’s Foreign Aid Suspension: USAID Website Goes Dark With Future in Doubt

WASHINGTON, Feb 1 (Reuters) – The website for the U.S. Agency for International Development appeared to be offline on Saturday, as the Trump administration moves to put the agency under State Department control.
A message stating that the “server IP address could not be found” appeared when attempts were made to access the website.
Two sources familiar with the discussions said on Friday that the Trump administration is moving to strip the agency of its independence and put it under State Department control.

Dismantling USAID is one of the best things Trump is doing.

Only 7 – 10% of foreign aid actually goes to people in need, in many cases it goes to terrorists It is a massive slush fund for deep state ops and money laundering. USAID was created by executive order. And it can be eliminated the same way.

MEF research finds that the Department of State and U.S. Agency for International Development have provided hundreds of millions of dollars to organizations involved with designated terrorist organizations.

• The Middle East Forum’s multi-year study of USAID and State Department spending has uncovered $164 million of approved grants to radical organizations, with at least $122 million going to groups aligned with designated terrorists and their supporters. Billions more of federal monies has been given to leading American aid charities which have consistently failed to vet their terror-tied local partners, and show little interest in improving their practices, to the apparent indifference of the federal government.
• Millions of federal dollars have been handed by USAID to organizations directly in Gaza controlled by Hamas, with government officials even visiting Gaza terror proxies’ offices and launching joint programs.
• USAID beneficiaries have called for their lands to be “cleansed” from the “impurity of the Jews,” among dozens of other chilling examples. USAID staff attend the offices of charities which seemingly operate on behalf of senior Hamas leaders, while staff of multiple multi-million dollar USAID beneficiary charities openly praise and encourage violence against Jews.
• State Department money has been handed to radical domestic groups such as the Tides Foundation, which members of Congress have accused of funding pro-Hamas, anti-Jewish violence in college campuses across America.
• Easily manipulated fellow travelers, including major aid organizations such as World Vision and Catholic Relief Services, as well as advocacy organizations such as InterAction, serve as important vehicles for terror-tied Islamists, both in the United States and abroad. These charities are dependent on federal funding, receiving billions of taxpayers’ dollars.
• Federal funding subsidizes efforts by domestic Islamists involved with Hamas, Jamaat-e-Islami and the Turkish regime, to abrogate rules and scrutiny in the United States intended to tackle the threat of terror finance.
• Records of federal funding, particularly through USAID, are obfuscated by deficient disclosure practices, deleted data, and deliberate attempts to evade transparency, with millions of dollars given to anonymous beneficiaries in terrorism-stricken areas of the globe.

Why is USAID funding Nina Jankowicz’s Internet censorship project in London? pic.twitter.com/2T5TpfTjL9

— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) February 2, 2025

Why was USAID funding the Wuhan Lab? pic.twitter.com/HccUbrd2mC

— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) February 2, 2025

Catholic Charities was by far the largest end recipient of illegal immigrant funding from:

1) The State Department
2) USAID
3) FEMA

Our money was used to drive the flow of illegals into and throughout our country. https://t.co/z8qMQlR0gF

— Jeff Carlson (@themarketswork) January 30, 2025

Mike Benz: USAID is not about aid. It’s about coordinating clandestine operations through foreign left-wing NGOs. With a $50 billion budget, it even surpasses the budgets of the CIA and State Department combined. pic.twitter.com/qeAEK4tObL

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) February 2, 2025

No, really: why was USAID backing Burisma? pic.twitter.com/gYjF2OZkS7

— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) February 1, 2025

It’s a mystery that U.S. taxpayers were ever funding this kind of NGO in the first place. Time to audit USAID & every other agency that’s dumping away our taxpayer $$. https://t.co/plZh12CdVn

— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) June 12, 2024

Like I said before, USAID is a front for the CIA. And together with NGO’s like the Open Society Foundation, they have been using US tax dollars & govt resources as their personal piggy bank. It has been infuriating to watch. Hopefully now the whole truth will come out. https://t.co/0eMqwBi3OR

— Lara Logan (@laralogan) February 2, 2025

USAID operates as if immune from accountability. That will change. https://t.co/EpWEvux9yI

— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) December 24, 2024

Mike Benz: USAID is not about aid. It’s about coordinating clandestine operations through foreign left-wing NGOs. With a $50 billion budget, it even surpasses the budgets of the CIA and State Department combined.

USAID essentially functions as one of many money laundering machines for Democrats in DC. Here’s how it works:

• Activists create obscure NGO
• Dems fund it lavishly
• NGO does bare minimum (or actively hurts the United States)
• Activists get paid and donate to Dems

Not… pic.twitter.com/oaEF4ON3Q0

— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) February 1, 2025

USAID essentially functions as one of many money laundering machines for Democrats in DC. Here’s how it works:

• Activists create obscure NGO
• Dems fund it lavishly
• NGO does bare minimum (or actively hurts the United States)
• Activists get paid and donate to Dems

Not only that but USAID helped spread their gender ideology nonsense and brought millions of illegals into our country.

That’s why Democrats are freaking out about the possibility that USAID’s being shut down by President Trump. It needs to be done.

Has anything good ever come out of USAID? Sure but we don’t have the money to be the world’s piggy bank and they’ve been an overall disaster that works harder to prop up left wing NGO’s than they do to help people. America voted to end this farce.

Mike Benz educates Joe Rogan on USAID: “There is no aid in USAID. It’s not an aid organization. USAID stands for US Agency for International Development. What it’s developing is all the activist organizations in foreign countries that the state department is building to gain… pic.twitter.com/AgTOuZwPy4

— Catch Up (@CatchUpFeed) February 2, 2025

USAID works in conjunction with the WEF and the UN to facilitate illegal migrants crossing the Darien Gap! The NGO’s, including the Red Cross, provide everything- ATM cards, food, medical care, places to rest, and is funded by the State Department. NGO’s like GO’s but full of it. pic.twitter.com/gVj6vbm5T3

— Dominique (@mousecrackers) February 1, 2025

USAID works in conjunction with the WEF and the UN to facilitate illegal migrants crossing the Darien Gap! The NGO’s, including the Red Cross, provide everything- ATM cards, food, medical care, places to rest, and is funded by the State Department. NGO’s like GO’s but full of it.

For years, only 7-10% of US humanitarian aid has reached intended recipients and in many cases it goes to terrorists. USAID is a lie! It is a money laundering scheme for criminals like Bob “gold bars” Mendedez, but he’s not the only one.

Show us your fake outrage… https://t.co/otp1INuo6s

— Lara Logan (@laralogan) February 2, 2025

For years, only 7-10% of US humanitarian aid has reached intended recipients and in many cases it goes to terrorists

USAID is a very nuanced topic pic.twitter.com/O4CeGiJoGa

— Taylor Day (@TABYTCHI) February 2, 2025

The recent shutdown of USAID under President Trump highlights the growing concerns surrounding the effectiveness and accountability of U.S. foreign aid. A glaring example of the misuse of tax payer dollars, disguised as aid, is the education system in Gaza and the West Bank pic.twitter.com/Lg5FtB11xZ

— Leslie Kajomovitz (Backup) (@kikas6652) February 2, 2025

And of course. Islamic terror.