US ally accuses Biden admin of using USAID as a 'tool to interfere with domestic issues'

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President Donald Trump’s 2nd medication has made the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) a premier people for spending cuts. Under Trump, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Elon Musk, is taking a superior look astatine the overseas assistance bureau — and America’s allies and enemies alike are taking notice.

In an exclusive interrogation with Fox News Digital astatine the United Nations, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjártó didn’t fell his disdain for USAID. While insisting that helium was not funny successful interfering with US home issues, Szijjártó did talk astir what helium saw from the bureau nether erstwhile President Joe Biden.

"The erstwhile medication couldn’t digest that we weren’t acceptable to springiness up our nationalist positions. We were not acceptable to springiness up representing our nationalist interests," Szijjártó told Fox News Digital. "And we were not acceptable to springiness up our non-liberal, patriotic, blimpish benignant of approach."

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Szijjártó besides accused the Biden medication of utilizing USAID to "destabilize the concern successful different countries" and to money "programs which were wholly alien and unusual compared to the civilization and the practice of different countries."

"If you inquire maine whether it’s bully to america that there’s a revision play of 90 days erstwhile it comes to payments regarding USAID and others, we are precise happy," Szijjártó added.

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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, a longtime state of Trump, besides ripped USAID aft it was reported that the bureau was backing Politico.

Prime Minister Orbán followed up successful different tweet saying, "We had to endure for years that the ultra-progressive, self-proclaimed quality rights champions of the mainstream media demonized Patriotic governmental forces for years. They did it due to the fact that they were paid to bash truthful by USAID and the previous, left-wing US administration. I hold with President [Trump]: this is excessively large and excessively soiled to fell from."

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed during Wednesday’s property briefing that "more than $8 cardinal payer dollars" went to Politico, adding that DOGE is "working connected canceling those payments." However, the work denied that it has ever been a "beneficiary of authorities programs."

Musk, who is heading up Trump’s cost-cutting efforts done DOGE, described the bureau arsenic a "viper’s nest of radical-left Marxists who hatred America."

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On Monday, Trump’s White House issued a database of examples of "waste and abuse" astatine USAID. This included $6M to money tourism successful Egypt, $1.5M successful backing for DEI programs successful Serbia’s workplaces, $47,000 for a "transgender opera" successful Colombia and more.

The White House besides accused the bureau of spending "hundreds of millions of dollars" connected "irrigation canals, farming equipment, and adjacent fertilizer utilized to enactment the unprecedented poppy cultivation and heroin accumulation successful Afghanistan," adding that this was "benefiting the Taliban."

At the extremity of its list, the White House noted that the highlighted examples were portion of a longer database of projects.

"Under President Trump, the waste, fraud, and maltreatment ENDS NOW," the White House added.

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