White House asks Congress to stop funding bug food for Madagascar children
The Trump administration says it has submitted its first rescissions package to Congress asking Capitol Hill to cut billions of dollars in spending.
In a series of tweets on X Tuesday, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) outlined some of the targeted initiatives which are currently being funded with taxpayer dollars. The first was $67,000 to test insect food on children in Madagascar. Eating insects as a source of protein has been heavily promoted by Leftist institutions to “combat climate change.”
The rescissions package also details millions spent on promoting gender ideology around the world, including $33,000 for “being LGBT in the Caribbean,” $643,000 for LGBT programs in the Western Balkans, $567,000 for similar programs in Uganda, and $5.1 million for the “resilience of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer global movements." A further $833,000 was earmarked for Nepalese “transgender people, sex workers and their clients and sexual networks.”
The OMB also revealed that three million dollars has been allocated for circumcision, vasectomies, and condoms in Zambia, $3 million for an Iraqi version of “Sesame Street” called “Ahlan Simsim,” $6 million to build “net zero cities” in Mexico, $500,000 for electric buses in Rwanda, $2.1 million for “climate resilience” on various continents, $5 million for “green transportation and logistics” in Eurasia, and $595,400 for training women in gender equity. The department also asked Congress to codify Trump’s order to defund NPR and PBS.
These initiatives are just some of the wasteful and abusive spending uncovered by the Trump administration, thanks in part to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Officials have discovered that the now-shuttered U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) was funding propaganda both domestically and abroad to shape political landscapes and set the ground regime changes. USAID also funded anti-Israel rap songs in Gaza, transgender operas in Colombia, DEI in Serbia, the publication of a transgender comic book in Peru, transgender clinics in India, and more.
Jordanian cinema, ice-skating drag queens and diverse bird-watchers
In his annual Festivus Report in December, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) detailed how the Biden administration squandered $1,008,313,329,626.12 on frivolous projects as American taxpayers grappled with the rising cost of living, driving the national debt past the $36 trillion mark. The State Department, for example, used $330,000 to drive advertisers away from conservative news outlets. The federal government spent close to $10 billion on federal office buildings, most of which were unused. The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) allocated $10,000 to the Bearded Ladies Cabaret, a troupe of drag queens who aim to solve climate change through ice skating. The Department of Energy spent $15.5 billion to help automakers manufacture more electric vehicles (EVs) despite plummeting consumer demand for electric cars. The State Department spent $4,840,082 on Ukrainian influencers, presumably to help push anti-Russian propaganda. The State Department gave $3 million to a Netherlands-based organization to coach Brazilian girls into becoming climate activists, even though women already make up most of the influential climate activists.
The State Department spent $873,584 on Jordanian cinema. Projects include a Star Wars premiere in Jordan, film workshops for Jordanians, screenings of high-art movies, and $435,575 to “increase the appeal of Jordan’s film industry.” The State Department doled out $246,699 to the UK’s Football for Peace Foundation to stop terror in Serbia and the Maldives through soccer, referred to as football in Europe. The National Science Foundation spent $288,563 to make ornithological societies, also known as bird-watching groups, more “diverse” and “inclusive.” The State Department spent $2.1 million on protecting Paraguay’s border. The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) spent $20 million on the Fertilize Right initiative, which advances the use of fertilizer in Pakistan, Brazil, Colombia, and Vietnam.
