FIRST ON FOX: The federal authorities beneath the Biden administration doled out greater than $174 million in grants and contracts to advertise “radical ideas” on gender ideology, together with to review menstrual cycles in transgender males and to “shield” the homosexual neighborhood within the Western Balkans, a brand new database dubbed ”Funding Insanity” discovered.
“When Americans pay their taxes every year, they expect that money to go towards projects that help them: strengthening our national defense, building and upgrading infrastructure, protecting our natural resources, etc.,” American Ideas Venture President Terry Schilling mentioned in an announcement supplied to Fox Information Digital.
“However, in recent years Democrats have been using public funds to instead push their radical gender agenda here at home and around the world,” he mentioned. “Hundreds of millions of dollars have been squandered on programs promoting the idea that human biology doesn’t matter. Nothing could better exemplify the disgusting corruption that has taken hold of Washington.”
The American Ideas Venture, a conservative nonprofit that payments itself as “America’s Top Defender of the Family,” revealed a brand new database Thursday morning referred to as “Funding Insanity,” which particulars varied initiatives — each home and overseas — that acquired lots of of hundreds of {dollars} from the federal authorities to advertise left-wing gender ideology.
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President Donald Trump and Elon Musk (Brandon Bell/Getty Photos)
The funds examined by the AAP have been doled out throughout the previous 4 years beneath the Biden administration.
In one of many priciest examples on AAP’s database, the U.S. Company for Worldwide Improvement (USAID) obligated $1,929,783 to the American Bar Affiliation as a part of a mission to “shield” members of “the LGBTQI+ population in the Western Balkans” by “strengthening human rights, information integrity, equality, and democracy.”
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The Western Balkans contains nations akin to Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro and Albania. The Balkans area overwhelmingly doesn’t acknowledge homosexual marriage, although nations akin to Montenegro acknowledge “life partnerships” between homosexual {couples}.
A protester holds an indication studying, “Homosexuality is not a choice, hate is a choice,” in Croatia. (Getty Photos)
The grant started on Oct. 1, 2024, and was set to run till Sept. 30. The Trump administration, nevertheless, paused international help in January, and USAID is within the midst of an obvious dismantling by the hands of the Division of Authorities Effectivity.
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In one other instance, the Division of Agriculture granted $600,000 to Southern College A&M in Louisiana to review menstrual cycles, together with for transgender males and nonbinary individuals.
The Division of Agriculture granted $600,000 to Southern College A&M in Louisiana to review menstrual cycles, together with for transgender males and nonbinary individuals. (Getty Photos)
“The first occurrence of menstruation occurs at approximately 12 years of age and ends with menopause at roughly 51 years of age,” the outline for the grant states. “A woman will have a monthly menstrual cycle for about 40 years of her life averaging to about 450 periods over the course of her lifetime.
“Additionally it is vital to acknowledge that transgender males and other people with masculine gender identities, intersex and non-binary individuals can also menstruate,” it continues. “At any given second about 26% of the world’s inhabitants is menstruating.”
The grant began in April 2024 and is described as a study to “handle the rising considerations and points surrounding menstruation,” including the use of natural fibers, such as hemp, for feminine hygiene products.
Fox News Digital reached out to the university and the American Bar Association regarding these respective grants but did not immediately receive replies.
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The Department of Agriculture spent an additional $229,637 to a natural resource management firm on contracts for “Brazil Forest and gender guide providers,” according to the database.
Gender consultants in forestry services work to promote gender-equality and women’s empowerment in the industry. The forestry contract began on Jan 15, 2024, and ended in January, a review of its award profile shows.
The Department of Agriculture spent an additional $229,637 to a natural resource management firm on contracts for “Brazil Forest and gender guide providers.” (Getty Images)
The State Department, in another example, spent nearly $25,000 in funds to “miscellaneous” foreign groups to premiere a theater production of “The Vagina Monologues” translated to the Gujarati language in India.
“To assist social change in the direction of girls empowerment and ending gender-based violence by theatre, world premier of the Vagina Monologues in Gujarati language in Mumbai and Ahmedabad,” the outline of the grant reads.
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“The Vagina Monologues” is a feminist play that first premiered in the U.S. in 1996 that focuses on personal monologues involving topics such as rape, menstrual periods, genital mutilation and prostitution.
In another pricey grant, USAID sent $1,065,702 to a Bangladesh welfare group to “assist gender numerous individuals (gdp) by the brand new shomota (a Bangla phrase that means “equality” in English),” the description for the grant reads.
Another State Department grant delivered $2,315 to a nongovernmental agency in Nepal to teach English to “skilled transgender girls make-up entrepreneurs.”
The State Department grant delivered $2,315 to a nongovernmental agency in Nepal to teach English to “skilled transgender girls make-up entrepreneurs.” (Getty Images)
Schilling continued in his statement provided to Fox Digital that “corruption” involving the federal government using taxpayer funds for left-wing gender initiatives “is lastly coming to an finish.”
In November 2024, “the American individuals gave Donald Trump a transparent mandate to empty the swamp, and since taking workplace he has acted decisively to take action together with Elon Musk and the newly shaped Division of Authorities Effectivity,” he said. “We hope President Trump, Musk and DOGE will discover this info helpful as they work to root out the far left’s ideological waste and as an alternative return our authorities to its true objective: service for the great of all People.”
Musk and his team of auditors at DOGE are poring through federal databases to identify overspending, fraud and corruption, with their main focus right now involving USAID.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Monday that he is now the acting director of USAID. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein/Pool)
Secretary of State Marco Rubio reported on Monday that he is now the acting director of USAID, telling the media that the agency needs to be brought in line with Trump’s “America First” policies, which include heightened scrutiny over the distribution of taxpayer funds overseas.
USAID’s website, since Tuesday evening, notifies readers that staff would be placed on leave globally, except “designated personnel chargeable for mission-critical features, core management and specifically designated applications.”
Democrat lawmakers have slammed the Trump administration’s apparent dismantling of the agency and targeting of other agencies, such as the Treasury Department, including holding protests in Washington, D.C.
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“That is essentially the most corrupt discount we have ever seen in American historical past: Elon Musk offers $250 million to elect Donald Trump, and Donald Trump turns over the keys to United States authorities to Elon Musk and his billionaire associates and his cronies,” Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., said during a protest outside the Treasury Department in Washington on Tuesday.
“Are we going to let that stand? Hell no, we’re not going to let that stand,” Van Hollen added, later vowing, “We have now to struggle this within the courts, we’ve got to struggle this within the Congress, we’ve got to struggle this within the streets. We have to struggle this throughout America.”
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt slammed such rhetoric as attempts to “incite violence” during a press conference on Wednesday.
Elon Musk is leading the Department of Government Efficiency. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
“It is unacceptable, the feedback which have been made by these Democrat leaders, and albeit, they do not even know what they’re speaking about as a result of President Trump was elected with a mandate from the American individuals to make this authorities extra environment friendly,” Leavitt responded.
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“He campaigned throughout this nation with Elon Musk, vowing that Elon was going to move up the Division of Authorities Effectivity and the 2 of them with an incredible group round them have been going to take a look at the receipts of this federal authorities and guarantee it is accountable to American taxpayers. That is all that’s occurring right here,” Leavitt continued. “And for Democrat officers to incite violence and encourage People to take to the streets is extremely alarming, and they need to be held accountable for that rhetoric.”
