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Exclusive: An internal note that circulates in the Casa Republicans is instant by the legislators to argue that the President Donald Trump’s The manipulation of foreign aid is “already paying dividends” and that the administration of Biden spent this money on initiatives such as “a transgender opera in Colombia through the State Department”.
The five -page document, obtained by Fox News Digital through a GOP source of the house, is sent to members of the Republican Directorate, as well as the legislators of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House by President Brian Mast, R-flap.
Includes three pages of recommended discussion points, including: “America spends annually 40 billion dollars on foreign aid. Many of these help dollars do not even reach the scheduled recipients and instead the northern taxpayer -american “.
The note urged Republicans to argue Trump’s freezing on foreign aid “is needed because it is almost impossible to evaluate foreign aid programs when they are in an automatic pilot.”
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President Trump returned to USAID in recent days. (Getty Images/File)
“A 90 -day review period, with common resignations for truly situations that can endanger life, is the only way to give the State Department the time needed to round off waste,” he said.
The State Department issued a freezing to most federal assistance abroad days after Trump was sworn in office. In recent days, the “Government efficiency department” and Elon Musk (DOGE) have also led a significant scale of the United States International Development Agency (USAID), including Secretary of State Marco Rubio in his head of action.
Opponents of movements have said that authoritarian governments would see that the United States stature on the world stage diminished and that it waterproof thousands of lives abroad that depended on the aid.
Only The Republicans like Mast, a maximum ally of Trump, argues that the movements are justified to evaluate what money will be used for foreign assistance that is aligned with Trump’s agenda.
“America’s foreign help is not charity and its goal should not be advanced abroad,” the Committee on X Monday wrote.
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The chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Brian Mast, is a maximum ally of Trump. (Ten Shen/Bloomberg using Getty Images/File)
The note also encouraged legislators to point out the exceptions of “emergency food assistance” and “medicine that saves life, medical services, food, refuge and subsistence assistance, as well as reasonable administrative supplies and costs as needed. to offer this assistance. “
The third page is dedicated to highlight where Republicans of the Committee monitored the foreign aid to which they were addressed, including “$ 39,652 to host seminars at the Edinburgh Book Festival in gender identity and racial equality through the State Department “and” $ 425,622 to help Indonesian coffee companies be more climatic and gender through USAID “.
Other priorities listed included “$ 14 million in cash vouchers for migrants on the southern border through the State Department,” $ 446,700 to promote the expansion of atheism in Nepal through the State Department “I” $ 32,000 for a comic focused on LGBTQ in Peru. “”
A group of chamber Democrats said that they were denied entry to USAID headquarters on Monday in the middle of reports on a scale in senior officials and others.
“We will not let this injustice occur. Congress created this agency with the Foreign Affairs Act of 1961 and, if you want to change it, you must change this law,” said the representative Gerry Connolly, D-VA.
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It is not clear if all Republicans are on board Trump’s push, however. A vote to avoid usaid last year, led by representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., Failed with 127 GOP legislators who voted against, compared to 81 in support.
But Trump’s management of foreign aid has been endorsed by Republicans known as National Security Falcons, including the Presidency of Foreign Affairs Presidency, Michael McCaul, R-Texas.
“President Trump and his team are right to examine and renew the United States’s foreign aid distribution to ensure that every taxpayer’s dollar serves their intended purpose. And I’m optimistic, they will do so in a way to reinforce the intention of the intention of ‘These programs and strengthen our national security, “said McCaul.
