Sen. Joni Ernst: USAID Wouldn’t Tell Congress How It Spent Billions

Sen. Joni Ernst: USAID Wouldn’t Tell Congress How It Spent Billions


The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) made headlines in recent days for deliberately resisting President Donald Trump’s attempts to purge the federal government of bureaucratic rot. Before it began slow-walking and even physically blocking Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency from evaluating its necessity to the federal government, however, the taxpayer-funded USAID repeatedly resisted congressional supervision of its spending habits.

Republican Sen. Joni Ernst disclosed in an X Spaces forum with DOGE Head Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy on Sunday that USAID issued “all kinds of threats” to the Republican and her office for her attempt to “exercise my oversight capacity in Congress.”

Ernst first pressed USAID on how it used its tax dollars to pay the facilities and administrative costs outlined in Negotiated Indirect

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