🔥🔥🔥Rep. Mark Green brings the heat to Democrats during viral moment from the USAID House Hearing: “Accountability is coming.”
“The corruption going on behind USAID’s doors has been a wake-up call for all Americans. As Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, I spent the last two years exposing the Biden administration’s sabotage of our border and the policies that kept America safe.
I saw firsthand their willful refusal to protect this country. Under the guise of foreign aid, USAID has been an unapologetic front for a far-left agenda. It has become self-evident there weren’t a handful of foolish policies, but rather a coordinated strategy of radical, idiotic, and often anti-American priorities.
Idiotic, you say? Millions to teach Moroccans how to make pottery? The Moroccans were making pottery before we were a country! This entire debate today and the crocodile tears from Democrats just goes to show what’s wrong with this town. Not a single Democrat I’ve heard has expressed dismay at the many examples of crazy, wasteful spending.
I don’t understand the objection to a deep dive in how we spend our money, but perhaps it’s the fact that over the last several weeks, a massive surge has occurred in the search for a criminal defense attorney. That probably says it all—five times in this city as in any other city in the nation.
I’d like to remind the committee that President Kennedy unilaterally created USAID through an executive order in 1961, yet President Trump orders a momentary pause after winning a mandate for reform and Democrats cry ‘constitutional crisis.’ This is after four years of reckless spending and unrepentant lawlessness from the Biden administration.
I want the American people to understand how this works in Washington. As long as you’re spending other people’s money, no one bats an eye. But the second you want to save taxpayer dollars, the swamp cries wolf, or in this case, unprecedented constitutional crisis. This breathless, fake outrage from the left is utterly insane. And you know what? The American people, they can see right through it.
The generosity of Americans and the blessing of giving aid to others has always been one of our most valuable tools for diplomacy. The American people have a proud history of championing aid to our fellow man, but lawless bureaucrats have poisoned that goodwill. Many USAID programs are wasteful and actively sabotage our diplomatic relationships by forcing woke ideology on our partners.
Just look at PEPFAR, a beacon of hope in the fight against HIV/AIDS, yet the Biden administration even weaponized this crucial program, jeopardizing lives and undermining our relationship with African nations. Under Administrator Powers, our message to Africa was explicit: Ab*rt your babies and violate your religious convictions, or we won’t grant you lifesaving aid. Let me be crystal clear to those who’ve been complicit in this betrayal: Firing those involved is just a start. We have a long way to go.
And one last point—I want to correct the record on a couple of things. First, Elon Musk and the team that is working does not have access to personal data. They don’t have access to your social security number—that is a lie.
Elon Musk does have a security clearance. He has a top-secret security clearance. By God, he makes the rockets for NASA! But the suggestion that he somehow can’t be trusted to dig into how we’re spending our money is nothing but a smokescreen to hide the corruption and the wasteful spending that has occurred there.
And I am personally offended at the left’s continued references to 19-year-olds and 21-year-olds in their doing work. There are 19-year-olds who have won the Medal of Honor defending this country. Just because you’re 19 doesn’t mean you’re some child who can’t be trusted. It is offensive, and if you’re 19 years old out there, 20 years old, and you’re serving this country, by God, your service matters. Keep serving. We thank you for that.”