DEI foreign aid projects cut off by Trump.
One of the big ticket items that no longer will receive U.S. funding is a pro LGBTQ group in Serbia through a group called 'Grupa Izadji,' which in English translates to 'Group Come Out.'
This NGO received $1.5 million from Biden's administration to 'advance diversity equity and inclusion in Serbia's workplaces and business communities, by promoting economic empowerment of and opportunity for LGBTQI+ people in Serbia.' According to the grant, the Serbian group 'will foster an environment that increases employment potential for LGBTQI+ persons, expands opportunities for LGBTQI+ entrepreneurs, and reduces workplace discrimination.' However, Trump's foreign aid freeze has cut off money from flowing to 'Grupa Izadji,' which was expected to be funded through the end of FY 2025. Projects like that and others that push DEI, like a $70,000 grant to a group in Ireland to produce a DEI musical in 2022, will now be crushed by Trump and his Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Mast says.
Biden's administration awarded $2.5 million for electric vehicles for Vietnam. As of December 2024, the effort has saved 260 gallons of gas, the same amount of gas held by two average semi-trucks / Since the huge investment of U.S. taxpayer dollars there has been at least one battery station built, avoiding a total of 260 gallons of gas, according to the USAID website. An average semi-truck holds roughly, by comparison, holds about 130 gallons of gas.
Earlier this week Mast revealed other jaw-dropping projects that U.S. taxpayers were funding in Afghanistan, Peru, Gaza and Colombia.
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said this week that the Biden administration almost sent $50 million taxpayer dollars worth of condoms to Gaza, which she called 'a preposterous waste of taxpayer money!' 'There was about to be $50 million taxpayer dollars that went out the door to fund condoms in Gaza!' Leavitt shockingly claimed. Though later the press secretary's claims were debunked after it was reported that just a portion of the $50 million was set aside for family planning like contraception.
Mast also blew the lid on a USAID program that awarded '$47,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia.' The chairman also revealed the U.S. government funded a Peruvian 'transgender comic book' that costed $32,000. 'We're trying to get our hands on the actual comic book, in Peru,' Mast previously told DailyMail.com. 'And I heard it's reasonably risqué.'
Th Republican called the projects 'crazy' and vowed similar programs will soon be shuttered. 'These are drops in the bucket of the American budget, but they're still ridiculous and stupid,' The Republican said of the programs that he is working with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Trump to dismantle.
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